diff --git a/app/Classes/Intervention/Transform.php b/app/Classes/Intervention/Transform.php
index 4bc2a85..9448a17 100644
--- a/app/Classes/Intervention/Transform.php
+++ b/app/Classes/Intervention/Transform.php
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 use ImagickException;
 use Intervention\Image\Encoders\AutoEncoder;
 use Intervention\Image\Laravel\Facades\Image as ImageManager;
-use InvalidArgumentException;
 
 class Transform implements TransformInterface
 {
@@ -23,58 +22,52 @@ class Transform implements TransformInterface
      * @param array|null $transformations
      *
      * @return string Binary string of the image.
-     * @throws FileNotFoundException
      */
     public function transform(string $pathToOriginalImage, ?array $transformations = null): string
     {
         $fileHandle = $this->getOriginalFileStream($pathToOriginalImage);
         $mimeType = mime_content_type($fileHandle);
+        $fileData = stream_get_contents($fileHandle);
 
         return match ($mimeType) {
-            'application/pdf' => $this->pdfToImage($fileHandle, $transformations),
-            default => $this->applyTransformations(stream_get_contents($fileHandle), $transformations),
+            'application/pdf' => $this->pdfToImage($fileData, $transformations),
+            default => $this->applyTransformations($fileData, $transformations),
         };
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param $fileHandle
+     * @param string $fileData
      * @param array|null $transformations
      * @return string
      * @throws PdfPageDoesNotExistException
      */
-    protected function pdfToImage($fileHandle, ?array $transformations = null): string
+    protected function pdfToImage(string $fileData, ?array $transformations = null): string
     {
-        // There is no type hint for resource.
-        if (!is_resource($fileHandle)) {
-            throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Argument must be a valid resource type, %s given.', gettype($fileHandle)));
-        }
-
-        // We need a temporary file to speed up the PDF to image transformation by accessing only a single page.
+        // We need a local file for Imagick to be able to access only the requested page.
         $tempFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'transmorpher');
-        file_put_contents($tempFile, $fileHandle);
-
-        $imagick = new Imagick();
-
-        // 300 DPI, might make this a transformation
-        $imagick->setResolution(300, 300);
+        file_put_contents($tempFile, $fileData);
 
         try {
+            $imagick = new Imagick();
+
+            // 300 DPI, might make this a transformation
+            $imagick->setResolution(300, 300);
             $imagick->readImage(sprintf('%s[%d]', $tempFile, ($transformations[Transformation::PAGE->value] ?? 1) - 1));
         } catch (ImagickException) {
             // Assuming an error happened because the requested page does not exist, we throw a custom exception.
             throw new PdfPageDoesNotExistException($transformations[Transformation::PAGE->value]);
+        } finally {
+            unlink($tempFile);
         }
 
-        unlink($tempFile);
-
         $imagick->setImageFormat(ImageFormat::from(config('transmorpher.pdf_default_image_format'))->value);
 
-        return $this->applyTransformations($imagick->getImage(), $transformations);
+        return $this->applyTransformations($imagick->getImageBlob(), $transformations);
     }
 
     /**
      * @param string $path
-     * @return resource
+     * @return resource|null
      * @throws FileNotFoundException
      */
     protected function getOriginalFileStream(string $path)
@@ -89,11 +82,11 @@ protected function getOriginalFileStream(string $path)
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param $imageData
+     * @param string $imageData
      * @param array|null $transformations
      * @return string
      */
-    protected function applyTransformations($imageData, ?array $transformations = null): string
+    protected function applyTransformations(string $imageData, ?array $transformations = null): string
     {
         if (!$transformations) {
             return $imageData;
diff --git a/app/Classes/MediaHandler/PdfHandler.php b/app/Classes/MediaHandler/PdfHandler.php
index 5b1bc51..d69e073 100644
--- a/app/Classes/MediaHandler/PdfHandler.php
+++ b/app/Classes/MediaHandler/PdfHandler.php
@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ public function applyTransformations(Version $version, ?array $transformationsAr
             return Optimize::optimize($derivative, $transformationsArray[Transformation::QUALITY->value] ?? null);
         }
 
-        return Optimize::removePdfMetadata(MediaStorage::ORIGINALS->getDisk()->readStream($version->originalFilePath()));
+        return Optimize::removePdfMetadata(MediaStorage::ORIGINALS->getDisk()->get($version->originalFilePath()));
     }
 }
diff --git a/app/Classes/Optimizer/Optimize.php b/app/Classes/Optimizer/Optimize.php
index 9ae266d..ee61997 100644
--- a/app/Classes/Optimizer/Optimize.php
+++ b/app/Classes/Optimizer/Optimize.php
@@ -12,16 +12,14 @@ class Optimize
      * Optimize an image derivative.
      * Creates a temporary file since image optimizers only work locally.
      *
-     * @param $derivative
+     * @param string $derivative
      * @param int|null $quality
      * @return string
      * @throws Exception
      */
-    public static function optimize($derivative, int $quality = null): string
+    public static function optimize(string $derivative, int $quality = null): string
     {
-        // Temporary file is needed since optimizers only work locally.
-        $tempFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'transmorpher');
-        file_put_contents($tempFile, $derivative);
+        $tempFile = self::getTemporaryFile($derivative);
 
         // Optimizes the image based on optimizers configured in 'config/image-optimizer.php'.
         ImageFormat::fromMimeType(mime_content_type($tempFile))->getOptimizer()->optimize($tempFile, $quality);
@@ -38,21 +36,36 @@ public static function optimize($derivative, int $quality = null): string
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param resource|string|array $derivative
+     * @param string $derivative
      * @return string
+     * @throws Exception
      */
-    public static function removePdfMetadata(mixed $derivative): string
+    public static function removePdfMetadata(string $derivative): string
     {
-        $tempFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'transmorpher');
-        file_put_contents($tempFile, $derivative);
-
+        $tempFile = self::getTemporaryFile($derivative);
         $pdfMerge = new PdfMerge();
-        $pdfMerge->add($tempFile);
 
-        $pdfData = $pdfMerge->merge('', 'S');
+        try {
+            $pdfMerge->add($tempFile);
+            $pdfData = $pdfMerge->merge('', 'S');
+        } catch (Exception $exception) {
+            unlink($tempFile);
 
-        unlink($tempFile);
+            throw $exception;
+        }
 
         return $pdfData;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @param string $derivative
+     * @return false|string
+     */
+    protected static function getTemporaryFile(string $derivative): string|false
+    {
+        $tempFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'transmorpher');
+        file_put_contents($tempFile, $derivative);
+
+        return $tempFile;
+    }
 }