How to Convert a PDF to JPG or PNG Images
Turn every page of a PDF into a PNG or JPG image in your browser, understand the resolution you actually get, and know when images are the wrong format.
Open PDF to Images — free, in your browser
What converting to images actually gives you
Each page is redrawn onto a canvas and saved as a picture. The layout survives perfectly — fonts, spacing, diagrams, and colors all look identical — but the text becomes pixels. It can no longer be selected, searched, or read aloud by a screen reader. That is exactly what you want for a thumbnail, a slide, or a page you are posting somewhere, and exactly what you do not want if you were after the words.
Steps to convert a PDF to JPG or PNG
Open the free PDF to Images converter
- Open the PDF to Images tool and select your PDF.
- Pick PNG for lossless output or JPG for smaller files.
- If you chose JPG, set the quality — 85 is a sensible default.
- Press Convert and Download; one page gives you a single image, and anything longer gives you a ZIP.
- Unzip the archive to get one image per page, numbered in page order.
PNG or JPG?
PNG is lossless. Text edges and thin lines stay crisp, which makes it the right pick for pages that are mostly type, tables, or diagrams. JPG discards detail to save space and can leave faint halos around dark text on white, but the files are smaller and it is perfectly good for photographs and image-heavy pages. If you are unsure, use PNG — you can always make a JPG from it later, but you cannot recover what JPG threw away.
The resolution you actually get
Pages render at twice their native PDF size, which works out to 144 DPI: an A4 page comes out around 1190 by 1684 pixels, and US Letter around 1224 by 1584. That is comfortably sharp on any screen, in a slide deck, or on a web page. Commercial printing normally asks for 300 DPI, so these images are not the right source for a print shop — send the PDF itself for that.
What lands in your downloads folder
Split out the pages you need first · How to split a PDF
- A one-page PDF downloads as a single PNG or JPG.
- Anything longer arrives as a ZIP named after your file with -images on the end.
- Inside, the pages are named page-1, page-2, and so on, so they sort correctly everywhere.
- Every page is converted — there is no page picker, so split the file first if you only want a few pages.
When images are the wrong answer
Extract the text · Compress the PDF
- You need the wording: extract the text rather than a picture of it.
- You need a smaller copy of the same document: compress the PDF instead of converting it.
- It is going to be printed at high quality: keep the PDF.
- Someone has to edit it: text inside an image cannot be edited as text in any ordinary editor.
Going back the other way
Images can be rebuilt into a PDF, which is useful for assembling screenshots or photos into one document. Be deliberate about a full round trip though, because converting a PDF to images and back permanently flattens it: the text is gone as text, the file is usually larger, searching stops working, and screen readers can no longer read it. Do it only when flattening is the point — for instance to stop a form being edited.
Privacy
Rendering happens in your browser with PDF.js, so neither the PDF nor the images it produces are uploaded. Nothing is stored on a server, and refreshing the page clears everything.