Chore: Generate PDF thumbnails with pdftoppm and Pillow instead of ImageMagick

Replace the ImageMagick convert based PDF thumbnail path with pdftoppm and
Pillow. Keeps thumbnails at 500px wide for small and odd sized pages, covers
the qpdf repair and double failure paths, removes the unused run_convert
helper, hardens thumbnail encoding, deprecates PAPERLESS_CONVERT_MEMORY_LIMIT
and PAPERLESS_CONVERT_TMPDIR, and corrects the related docs and CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#### [`PAPERLESS_CONVERT_MEMORY_LIMIT=<num>`](#PAPERLESS_CONVERT_MEMORY_LIMIT) {#PAPERLESS_CONVERT_MEMORY_LIMIT}
: On smaller systems, or even in the case of Very Large Documents, the
consumer may explode, complaining about how it's "unable to extend
pixel cache". In such cases, try setting this to a reasonably low
value, like 32. The default is to use whatever is necessary to do
everything without writing to disk, and units are in megabytes.
!!! warning
For more information on how to use this value, you should search the
web for "MAGICK_MEMORY_LIMIT".
Defaults to 0, which disables the limit.
Deprecated and has no effect, since PDF thumbnails no longer use
ImageMagick. It will be removed in a future release.
#### [`PAPERLESS_CONVERT_TMPDIR=<path>`](#PAPERLESS_CONVERT_TMPDIR) {#PAPERLESS_CONVERT_TMPDIR}
: Similar to the memory limit, if you've got a small system and your
OS mounts /tmp as tmpfs, you should set this to a path that's on a
physical disk, like /home/your_user/tmp or something. ImageMagick
will use this as scratch space when crunching through very large
documents.
!!! warning
For more information on how to use this value, you should search the
web for "MAGICK_TMPDIR".
Default is none, which disables the temporary directory.
Deprecated and has no effect, since PDF thumbnails no longer use
ImageMagick. It will be removed in a future release.
#### [`PAPERLESS_APPS=<string>`](#PAPERLESS_APPS) {#PAPERLESS_APPS}
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- `pkg-config` for mysqlclient (python dependency)
- `fonts-liberation` for generating thumbnails for plain text
files
- `imagemagick` >= 6 for PDF conversion
- `imagemagick` >= 6 for image alpha handling
- `gnupg` for decrypting GPG-encrypted email
- `libpq-dev` for PostgreSQL
- `libmagic-dev` for mime type detection
- `mariadb-client` for MariaDB compile time
- `poppler-utils` for barcode detection
- `poppler-utils` for thumbnail generation and barcode detection
Use this list for your preferred package management:
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You may need to change the path in the files. Example:
`ExecStart=/opt/paperless/.local/bin/celery --app paperless worker --loglevel INFO`
12. Configure ImageMagick to allow processing of PDF documents and disable
formats that Paperless-ngx does not use. Most distributions disable PDF
processing by default, since PDF documents can contain malware. If you
don't enable it, Paperless-ngx will fall back to Ghostscript for certain
steps such as thumbnail generation.
12. Harden ImageMagick by disabling formats that Paperless-ngx does not use.
PDF processing is not needed and should stay disabled.
Configure the active ImageMagick policy file (commonly
`/etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml` or `/etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml`) and