PDF to JPG (and PNG)

A rendered PDF page is a picture of what was on it, not the file itself, so the two things worth knowing before you convert are what resolution actually buys you and what a rasterised page gives up. Both are covered here; how to type a page range is split-pdf's job, and this tool uses the same syntax — see that guide if you want the full rules on ranges and commas. Going the other way, turning a folder of pictures back into one PDF, is jpg-to-pdf's job, not this one's.

Convert PDF to JPG

Drop a PDF, leave the pages field empty to convert every page or type a range like 3-7 or a list like 3,5,9, and press Convert to JPG. Each page becomes its own JPG file, previewed as a thumbnail with its file name, its exact pixel size and its real encoded byte size once the run finishes — nothing is estimated beforehand, because how well a page compresses depends on what's actually drawn on it. JPG is the default format, and it's the right one for most PDFs worth converting: it's smaller than PNG for anything with continuous tone or a scanned texture, which covers a photograph, a scanned document, or any page that already looks a little soft. That's also what makes it the answer to "save a PDF page as an image" for the common case — a contract page, a scanned receipt, a poster proof — where file size matters more than pixel-perfect edges.

Convert PDF to PNG — when to pick it over JPG

Switch to PNG when the page is mostly flat colour and sharp lines rather than a photograph: a diagram, a screenshot embedded in the PDF, a page of dense text you want to stay crisp at 100% zoom, or a chart with fine gridlines. JPG's compression is built for photographs and it introduces soft blocky artefacts around hard edges — exactly the kind of edge a line of text or a ruled table has — so a text-heavy page saved as JPG can look faintly smudged even at a resolution that should be sharp. PNG is lossless, so the page comes out with the exact edges pdfjs drew, at the cost of a noticeably larger file. If you're not sure which to pick, the rule of thumb the format control states directly holds: JPG for anything that already looks like a photograph, PNG for anything that's meant to look printed.

Does PDF to JPG keep the text selectable?

No — this is the one thing most people get wrong about converting PDF pages to images, and it's worth stating plainly rather than discovering after the fact. Rasterising a page draws it into a canvas exactly as it would appear on screen, and what gets encoded afterwards is that picture, not the underlying text objects. Open the resulting JPG or PNG in anything and there is nothing to select, search, copy or edit — the words are pixels now, not characters. That's frequently the reason someone wants this tool rather than keeping the PDF as-is: a converted page can't have its numbers changed, its wording edited, or its text lifted out and pasted somewhere else, which matters for a signed agreement, a form nobody should be able to alter, or an ID page you're attaching somewhere that only accepts images. If you need the text to survive — to keep it searchable, or to pull specific pages out while keeping them as real PDFs — that's what split-pdf is for, not this tool.

Choosing a resolution: screen, normal or print

Three named presets, no custom DPI field. Screen (72 DPI) renders a page at exactly its point dimensions, which is small and fine for posting online or filling a slide. Normal (150 DPI), the default, is comfortably readable on-screen and is the right choice for most conversions. Print (300 DPI) is for printing the page or archiving a scan at a resolution that holds up to a closer look, and it produces the largest files by a wide margin — a single A4 page at 300 DPI is roughly four times the pixel count of the same page at 150 DPI. The pixel size under each option updates against the largest page in whatever you've selected, so what you see before pressing Convert is the size you'll actually get, not a guess.

When this device refuses to draw a page

A canvas that's too big for a browser to allocate doesn't fail loudly — on many phones it silently hands back a blank or black image that still encodes and downloads, which is a worse outcome than a refusal because you don't find out until you open the file. This tool checks the ceiling twice before it lets that happen: once by arithmetic, which disables a resolution option in the control before you've pressed anything if the largest selected page would exceed it, and again with a real test on your actual device immediately before the first page is drawn. If that second check fails, nothing is drawn and nothing is saved — the panel says so and offers the next resolution down by name. A large page — a poster, a plan, an A3 spread — at Print resolution on a phone is the case most likely to trip this; dropping to Normal or Screen, or converting on a computer instead, gets past it.

Downloads, the page cap, and encrypted PDFs

This tool converts up to 50 pages in one run, stated on the drop zone before you've added a file and again if your selection or your document goes over it. There's no ZIP: every page is its own browser download, either pressed individually or fired together with Download all, 350 milliseconds apart. Chrome, Edge and Brave ask permission before letting a page trigger several downloads at once, and choosing Block silently stops everything after the first — nothing on the page is told this happened, so the notice under Download all stays up before and after you press it rather than disappearing once the button's been clicked. Each image also has its own Download button that never triggers that prompt, so that's the way out if some files don't arrive. A PDF that's password-protected is refused the same way it would be anywhere else on this site: this tool doesn't attempt to guess or strip a password, so open the file with a PDF reader, save an unlocked copy, and convert that copy instead.

Nothing survives after you leave

The PDF you drop, the pages you select and the images that come out of it exist only in this browser tab's memory for as long as the tab stays open. There's no upload — the code that runs this page cannot make a network request — and there's no local save either: refreshing the page, closing the tab or pressing Start over clears the document and every image that hasn't been downloaded yet. A converter that remembered your last file or your last page selection between visits would be keeping a trace of exactly the kind of document it promised to leave none of.