<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.1</version>
</dependency>

public class ViaPdfRenderer extends FromBinaryNode {
	
  @Override
  protected BufferedImage doReadAndClose(InputStream inputStream) throws   IOException, ImagingException {
        
	// Parse the PDF
	PDFParser pdfParser = new PDFParser(inputStream);
        pdfParser.parse();
        
        // Get the document
        PDDocument document = pdfParser.getPDDocument();
        
        // Get all pages
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	List<PDPage> pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
        if (pages == null || pages.size() == 0) {
        	document.close();
        	return null;
        }
        
        // Get the first page
        PDPage page = pages.get(0);
        
        // Generate the image
        BufferedImage image = page.convertToImage();
        
        // Close the document
        document.close();
        
        return image;
  }
	
}