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19th March 2026

Research PDF to Image Converter — Leveraging Rust's `pdfium-render` crate and Python's PyO3 bindings, this project enables fast and reliable conversion of PDF pages to JPEG images, packaged as a self-contained Python wheel. The CLI tool and Python library are both built to require no external dependencies, bundling the necessary PDFium binary for ease of installation and cross-platform compatibility.

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