title: Get a preview JPEG of a PDF on Windows?
body: <p>I have a cross-platform (Python) application which needs to generate a JPEG preview of the first page of a PDF.</p>
  
  <p>On the Mac I am spawning <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090309234215/http://developer.apple.com:80/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sips.1.html" rel="noreferrer">sips</a>.  Is there something similarly simple I can do on Windows?</p>