How to convert PDF pages to JPG or PNG
You need a page of a PDF as a picture: for a slide, a chat, a website, or a form that only accepts images. PDF to Image draws the pages you choose in your browser and saves them as JPG or PNG files. Here is the whole path, from opening the file to saving the images.
Open your PDF
Drop the file on the page or use Add PDF. The PDF is read on your device; it is not uploaded to a server for the conversion. PDF to Image works on one PDF at a time — if you drop several, the first one is opened.
A PDF that is password-protected or restricted cannot be opened here, and no password is asked for.
Keep the pages you need
When the document opens, every page is selected. You take away what you don’t need:
- Tap or click a page to remove it from the selection; tap it again to add it back.
- Select all, Clear and Invert change the whole selection at once; Odd pages and Even pages are under More.
- Or type the pages into the range field, for example
3, 18, 42-46, and press Enter or Apply.
Whatever order you pick pages in, the images come out in the order the pages have in the document. Choosing pages, ranges and the ZIP covers ranges in detail.
Choose the format and the resolution
The settings button shows what will be made, for example JPG · 150 dpi. Open it (on a phone, the settings slide up from the bottom of the screen) and choose:
- JPG — for everyday use. Usually a smaller file. It is the default.
- PNG — for text and drawings. On pages with photos, the file can get very large.
Then pick Compact (96 dpi), Standard (150 dpi, the default) or High (300 dpi). Each option shows the pixel size of your first selected page before you save.
Changing the format keeps your PDF, your page selection and the resolution as they are. JPG or PNG explains how to choose, with measured file sizes.
Save
The save button names what it will do, for example Save 1 image or Save 5 images.
- One page downloads as a single image named after your file and the page number, such as
poster-page-2.jpg. - Several pages arrive together in one ZIP, such as
poster-images.zip, in document order.
While the pages are drawn, the button counts them (“3 / 12”); with several pages it then shows that the ZIP is being prepared. When the file is ready, a strip at the bottom shows its name, the format and resolution it was made with, and that it was handed to your browser. Where the file ends up — and whether you are asked first — is up to your browser.
Cancel stops the job; nothing is downloaded after a cancel. If something fails, Try again runs the job again. While a job is running, the page selection and the settings are locked, so what you see is what is being made.
After saving
Download again gives you the same file once more, without drawing the pages again — even if you have switched the format in the meantime. To make the other format, choose it and press save again. If your browser can share files, Share passes the images themselves to another app; if it can’t, that button is not shown.
What to keep in mind
- Pages are drawn on a white background; neither format gets transparent areas.
- The tool draws whole pages; it does not pull out the photos embedded inside a PDF.
- Very large pages are scaled down, with their proportions kept, to stay within 8192 pixels on the longest side and 24 megapixels per page. Resolution and large pages explains when this happens.
- The tool sets no fixed page-count limit. Practical capacity depends on the document, the resolution, the format and the memory available on your device.