Feature: Generate PDF thumbnails via poppler utils (#14420)

* 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>

* Chore: Supersample the PDF thumbnail render 2x

Render the PDF page at twice the target size and downsample, with edge case
handling for small and odd sized pages, simplified helpers and tests, and
trimmed comments.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix: use a fractional thumbnail DPI so oversized pages render a bounded raster

* Deprecate the unused PAPERLESS_GS_BINARY setting too

* Warn at startup when pdftoppm is missing

* Resample PDF thumbnails once instead of twice with LANCZOS, still never enlarging

* Read PDF page size from pdfinfo so it matches pdftoppm

* Mark the thumbnail constants Final

* Comment each pdftoppm option

docs/configuration.md

@@ -1315,29 +1315,17 @@ valid crontab(5) expression describing when to run.
 
 #### [`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}
 
@@ -1889,7 +1877,10 @@ the literal path for that program.
 
 #### [`PAPERLESS_GS_BINARY=<path>`](#PAPERLESS_GS_BINARY) {#PAPERLESS_GS_BINARY}
 
-: Defaults to "gs".
+!!! warning
+
+    Deprecated and has no effect, since nothing in Paperless-ngx calls
+    Ghostscript by this path. It will be removed in a future release.
 
 ## Docker-specific options {#docker}
 

docs/setup.md

@@ -177,12 +177,12 @@ to a positive number to enable polling and disable native filesystem notificatio
     - `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:
 
@@ -416,11 +416,8 @@ to a positive number to enable polling and disable native filesystem notificatio
         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