There are several articles on the web about converting a PDF to an Image using Python. But I think most of them promote the wrong way to accomplish this goal.

I have written about a much better way of accomplishing this goal using poppler bindings for Python. The article is under a Creative Commons free license. Link to the article in my website:

https://far.chickenkiller.com/computer/converting-pdf-to-image-in-python-the-right-way/