Software to create thumbnails

[Brad Harris]

I was thinking about implementing the thumbnail feature on my search results page and wanted to ask what software other people use to generate the thumbnails. I know there are services that do this but either they cost more than I want to pay or they make their branding too intrusive for my taste. I would just rather generate and host the thumbnails myself.

I am looking for a one click solution that could automatically scan the folder structure and create the thumbnails. Ideally, it could not only do thumbnails for the web pages but also for PDF's.

Any suggestions?

[David]

I am not aware of any free tools that create thumbnails of web pages and PDF files.

There are plenty of applications to bulk resize jpg files and other image types however.

In our experience having thumbs of web pages and PDFs doesn't look all that great. The problem is that when you reduce a web page to a thumbnail they all start to look identical for a particular web site.