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PDF to Image Converter
Turn every page of a PDF into a JPG or PNG image. Pick the resolution — up to a print-ready 300 dpi — and download multiple pages as a single ZIP. Your file never leaves your browser — no upload, no sign-up.
Convert each PDF page to a JPG or PNG and download several pages at once as a ZIP. Choose 150 dpi for screens and the web, or 300 dpi for print. Everything runs locally — your PDF is never uploaded to a server. For long documents, converting just the pages you need is much faster.
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Why convert a PDF to images
Plenty of places simply won't take a PDF. Blog posts, online shop listings and most social platforms only accept images, and dropping a page into a chat app or an Instagram story is far easier as a picture. You might also want to slot a single page into a slide deck, or a print shop may ask for image files instead of the original document.
It also works as a light copy deterrent. Text in a PDF can be selected and copied straight out, but once it's an image, the text can no longer be lifted with a click. Someone can still screenshot or run OCR, so it's not real protection — it just stops casual copy-and-paste.
Which resolution should I pick?
PDFs are laid out on a 72 dpi grid, so exporting at 72 dpi gives you an image the same nominal size as the page. That's fine on screen at 100%, but text turns blurry the moment you zoom in.
150 dpi is plenty for viewing on screen and posting on the web — an A4 page comes out around 1240×1754 pixels. 300 dpi is the standard for print, making an A4 page 2480×3508 pixels, with files to match. If you're not printing, 150 dpi is all you need.
Resolution scales the pixel count quadratically. Going from 72 to 300 dpi multiplies both width and height by more than 4×, so file size grows 17-fold or more. Rendering a long document at 300 dpi can strain the browser, so select only the pages you actually need.
If the text isn't sharp
Your PDF may already be a scan. A PDF made by scanning paper contains photographs of text rather than actual text, so no export resolution can exceed the quality of the original scan. Quick check: open the PDF and try to drag-select some text — if nothing selects, it's a scan.
If the text does select, raising the resolution will keep making it sharper. If 300 dpi still isn't enough, switch from JPG to PNG — JPG compression is most visible exactly where text meets background, on hard high-contrast edges.
Troubleshooting
The file won't open
Password-protected PDFs can't be opened here. If your viewer asks for a password, remove the protection first. The file may also be corrupted, or not actually a PDF despite the extension.
It's slow with many pages
All rendering happens in your browser — nothing goes to a server, so the work runs on your own machine instead. A 100-page document at 300 dpi takes a while and eats a lot of memory. Converting just the pages you need, in batches, is much faster.
Do the images have transparent backgrounds?
No. PDF pages assume white paper, so pages are exported with a solid white background. If you need transparency, run the converted image through the background remover afterwards.
What about going the other way — images to PDF?
Use the Image to PDF tool to bundle JPG or PNG files into a single PDF, and the PDF editor to merge, reorder or extract pages.
The files are too big
Lower the resolution or switch to JPG. If they're still too large, drop the converted images into the image compressor to hit a target file size.