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Convert PDF pages to JPG or PNG images

Turn each page into a sharp image at whatever resolution you need — for a slide, a website, a chat message or a print job. Converted on your device, never uploaded.

Drop a PDF here, or click to browse

Pages are rendered by your own browser.

    Image format
    Load a PDF to see its page count.

    Nothing is uploaded. This page opens and rewrites your PDF using your own browser's memory, then shows you the finished pages so you can check them before you download.

    Using PDF to JPG, step by step

    1. Drop a PDF onto the box above.
    2. Choose JPG or PNG and pick a resolution. 150 DPI suits screens; 300 DPI is print quality.
    3. Optionally list which pages to convert — leave it empty for all of them.
    4. Press Convert to images and download. A single page arrives as an image; several arrive as a ZIP.

    What converting a page to an image is for

    A PDF is a document; an image is a picture. Most of the time you want the document — but there is a specific set of situations where a picture is the only thing that works, and they come up often enough to need a tool.

    The commonest is embedding. Presentation software, page layout tools, forum posts, chat apps and most content management systems accept an image happily and a PDF awkwardly or not at all. Dropping a JPG of page 4 into a slide takes seconds; getting a PDF page into that slide any other way does not. The second is preview and thumbnails: an image can be shown inline anywhere, where a PDF requires a viewer.

    The third is a deliberate, if blunt, form of finality. An image cannot be edited as text, cannot have its content copied out, and looks the same to everyone. Sending a scanned-looking page rather than a live document is sometimes exactly the intent — though be clear-eyed about it: this makes the content harder to reuse, not harder to read, and it is not a security measure.

    Resolution, in terms you can act on

    DPI here means how many pixels are rendered for each inch of the original page. An A4 page is 8.27 inches wide, so at 150 DPI you get an image about 1240 pixels across; at 300 DPI, about 2480. The file size grows with the square of the number: doubling the DPI quadruples the pixels.

    Choose by destination. Something viewed on screen at normal size needs no more than 96 DPI. Something that might be zoomed, or displayed on a high-resolution laptop screen, is comfortable at 150. Anything heading for a printer wants 300, which is the industry standard for photographic reproduction. Going beyond 300 produces very large files for a difference that is essentially invisible without a loupe.

    The conversion is one-way

    It is worth being explicit: rendering a page to an image permanently discards the text layer. The words become pixels. Nothing can be selected, searched, copied or read by a screen reader, and no amount of converting back to PDF restores what was thrown away. Optical character recognition can approximate the text later, but that is a reconstruction, not a recovery.

    So keep your original PDF. If what you actually needed was smaller files rather than images, the compressor gets you there while keeping the document a document. If you needed the words, PDF to text extracts them in one step.

    Frequently asked questions

    Should I choose JPG or PNG?

    JPG for anything containing photographs or scans — it is dramatically smaller and the compression artefacts are invisible at sensible quality. PNG for pages that are mostly text, diagrams, logos or line art, where its lossless compression keeps edges perfectly sharp and often produces a smaller file than JPG would for the same clarity.

    What resolution do I actually need?

    72–96 DPI for something that will only be viewed on a screen at normal size. 150 DPI is the sensible default and stands up to being zoomed. 300 DPI is true print quality and is what you want if the image will be placed in a document that gets printed. Above 300 the files grow quickly with very little visible gain.

    Can I convert just one page?

    Yes — enter its number in the pages field. A single page is delivered as a plain image file rather than a ZIP, so there is nothing to unpack.

    Will the text in the images still be searchable?

    No, and that is inherent to the conversion. An image is a grid of pixels; the text becomes a picture of text. If you need the words, use PDF to text instead, or keep the PDF.

    How do I go back from images to a PDF?

    JPG to PDF does the reverse. Be aware that a round trip is lossy: PDF to image discards the text layer permanently, and converting back gives you a PDF of pictures rather than the original document.

    Related PDF tools

    Most jobs need two or three steps. These pair well with PDF to JPG.