Load PDF into UIImage or UIImageView?

You may want to check out this UIImage-PDF category over on GitHub: https://github.com/mindbrix/UIImage-PDF

PDFs can be loaded by UIWebView. If you need more control you can use Quartz 2D to render PDFs: Quartz2D

Now it is possible, I am using iOS 8+. If you put a pdf in your assets catalog, and then load the pdf in a UIImage using [UIImage imageNamed:] it renders the first page of the pdf into the UIImage.