diff --git a/src/documents/management/commands/document_thumbnails.py b/src/documents/management/commands/document_thumbnails.py
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+++ b/src/documents/management/commands/document_thumbnails.py
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+import logging
+import multiprocessing
+import shutil
+
+import tqdm
+from django import db
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
+
+from documents.models import Document
+from ...mixins import Renderable
+from ...parsers import get_parser_class_for_mime_type
+
+
+def _process_document(doc_in):
+    document = Document.objects.get(id=doc_in)
+    parser = get_parser_class_for_mime_type(document.mime_type)(
+        logging_group=None)
+    try:
+        thumb = parser.get_optimised_thumbnail(
+            document.source_path, document.mime_type)
+
+        shutil.move(thumb, document.thumbnail_path)
+    finally:
+        parser.cleanup()
+
+class Command(Renderable, BaseCommand):
+
+    help = """
+        This will regenerate the thumbnails for all documents.
+    """.replace("    ", "")
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.verbosity = 0
+        BaseCommand.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def add_arguments(self, parser):
+        parser.add_argument(
+            "-d", "--document",
+            default=None,
+            type=int,
+            required=False,
+            help="Specify the ID of a document, and this command will only "
+                 "run on this specific document."
+        )
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+
+        self.verbosity = options["verbosity"]
+
+        logging.getLogger().handlers[0].level = logging.ERROR
+
+        if options['document']:
+            documents = Document.objects.filter(pk=options['document'])
+        else:
+            documents = Document.objects.all()
+
+        ids = [doc.id for doc in documents]
+
+        # Note to future self: this prevents django from reusing database
+        # conncetions between processes, which is bad and does not work
+        # with postgres.
+        db.connections.close_all()
+
+        with multiprocessing.Pool() as pool:
+            list(tqdm.tqdm(pool.imap_unordered(_process_document, ids), total=len(ids)))