Choose a PDF, pick a resolution, and every page comes back as an image you can drop into a slide, a chat message or a web page. One page gives you one image. Several pages come back together in a single ZIP file, named in page order, so you do not end up clicking thirty separate downloads.
You can convert the whole document or only the pages you name, and choose between JPG and PNG. JPG keeps files small and suits photos and scanned pages. PNG keeps text and line drawings crisp, with no blurring around the edges of letters.
The page is drawn the way a PDF reader would draw it, fonts and all, then saved as a picture. That means the result looks like the page you see on screen, including pages that use Chinese, Japanese or Korean text and scanned pages stored in less common image formats.
How to pDF to JPG
- Add your PDF. Drop it on the box above or tap to choose it. One file at a time, up to 100 MB.
- Pick a resolution and format. 150 dpi suits most screens. Choose 300 dpi for printing, and PNG if the pages are mostly text or diagrams.
- Choose the pages. Leave the pages box empty to convert everything, or type ranges such as 1-3, 8 to convert only those.
- Convert and download. A single page downloads as an image. Two or more arrive as one ZIP that every computer and phone can open.
Which resolution to pick
Resolution decides how many pixels each page becomes. At 72 dpi an A4 page is 595 by 842 pixels: fine for a thumbnail or a quick preview in a chat, too soft to read small print. At 150 dpi the same page is 1240 by 1754 pixels, which fills a laptop screen and keeps ordinary body text sharp. That is the default for a reason.
300 dpi gives 2480 by 3508 pixels for A4, the standard for printing and for anything you plan to zoom into, such as a technical drawing or a page you want to run through text recognition later. The files are roughly four times the size of the 150 dpi version, so only reach for it when you need the detail.
Very large pages are the exception. A poster-sized page at 300 dpi would need a canvas bigger than mobile browsers allow, so pages over about 16 million pixels are scaled down to fit. You still get the whole page, at slightly less than the resolution you asked for.
JPG or PNG
JPG compresses by discarding detail the eye is unlikely to miss, which works well on photographs and scans and badly on sharp edges. Text saved as JPG picks up faint smudges around each letter, more visible the closer you look. Images here are saved at high quality, so it is rarely a problem at 150 dpi and above.
PNG is lossless. Every pixel of text and every thin line survives exactly, which matters for screenshots of forms, spreadsheets and code, and for any image you will enlarge later. The trade-off is size: a page of text as PNG can be several times larger than the JPG.
A simple rule: photos and scans as JPG, everything with text, charts or diagrams as PNG.
Limits worth knowing
Password-protected files have to be unlocked before their pages can be drawn. You will be told if that is the problem.
Up to 300 pages per run. Each page is held in memory while it is converted, and a phone runs out long before a desktop does. For a longer document, convert it in parts, such as 1-300 and then 301-600.
Images, not text. The result is a picture of the page. You cannot select or edit the words in it any more, so keep the original PDF if you might need the text later.
Questions people actually ask
How do I convert just one page of a PDF to JPG?
Type that page number into the pages box, for example 4, and convert. You get a single JPG back rather than a ZIP. To convert a few specific pages, list them with commas, such as 1, 4, 9-10, and they arrive together in one ZIP, named by page number.
Why did I get a ZIP file instead of images?
Because more than one page was converted. Bundling them avoids a separate download prompt for every page, which some phones show one at a time. Open the ZIP and the images are inside, named in page order. Windows, macOS, iPhone and Android can all open ZIP files without extra software.
What resolution should I use for printing?
Use 300 dpi. That is the usual standard for print, and it gives an A4 page 2480 by 3508 pixels, enough for small text to print cleanly. For screens, presentations and messages, 150 dpi looks just as good and the files are about a quarter of the size.
Will the images look exactly like the PDF?
They should look the way the page appears in a PDF reader, because the page is drawn the same way a reader draws it, with its fonts and images. Interactive parts do not carry over: links stop being clickable and form fields show whatever value they held when you converted.
Can I pull out the photos embedded in a PDF instead of whole pages?
Not with this tool yet. It turns whole pages into images. If you need one photo from a page, convert that page at 300 dpi and crop the picture out in any image editor. The result is close to the original, though not always an exact copy of the embedded file.