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PDF to Image Converter

Turn PDF pages into sharp PNG, JPG or WebP images at up to 1200 DPI. Pick exactly the pages you need, unlock password-protected files, and download a ZIP or one long image — the PDF never leaves your device.

Drop a PDF to turn its pages into images

Every page, or only the ones you pick, as high-resolution images. The PDF is opened on your device and never uploaded.

Why you would turn a PDF into images at all

A PDF is the right format for keeping a document and the wrong one for almost everywhere else it ends up. A slide deck pasted into a chat arrives as a file nobody opens; a page of a contract won't go into a presentation; a scanned form is rejected by an upload field that only takes JPG. In every one of those cases what is wanted is the page as a picture — something that previews inline, drops into any editor and opens on every device.

The catch is resolution. Screenshotting a page gives you whatever your screen happened to show, which is rarely enough to read small print once it has been sent on. Rendering the page properly means drawing its text and vector graphics afresh at the size you ask for: 150 DPI for a screen, 300 for print, 600 when the footnotes have to survive. That is what this tool does, page by page, with fonts, CMYK scans, JPEG 2000 images and filled-in form fields drawn as they would print.

It also does it without sending the file anywhere. The PDF is opened in your browser by pdf.js — the same engine Firefox uses to display PDFs — and every page is rendered on your device. For the documents people most often need to convert, statements, contracts, ID scans, that is not a nice-to-have.

Common use cases

Slides into a chat or a post

Turn a deck into one image per slide, or one long image that scrolls, so it previews inline instead of arriving as an attachment.

A single page into a presentation

Pull page 7 of a report out as a transparent PNG and drop the chart straight onto a slide or into a design tool.

Scans for upload forms

Government and HR portals that only accept JPG: convert the scanned PDF at 300 DPI in greyscale and the file is both legible and small.

Archiving and printing

Render pages at 600 DPI as lossless PNG for an archive, or for a print shop that wants images rather than a PDF.

Getting the best result

  • PNG for text, charts and line art: it is lossless, so edges stay sharp. JPG for scanned pages and photographs, where it is several times smaller with no visible difference.
  • 150 DPI is plenty for anything viewed on a screen. Go to 300 for print, and 600 only when the document has very small type — file size grows with the square of the DPI.
  • "By width" is the better choice when the images are going online: every page comes out at exactly, say, 1080 or 1920 pixels wide, whatever its paper size.
  • Transparent backgrounds work for PDFs exported from design or presentation software. Scanned pages are a photograph of white paper and will stay white.
  • Greyscale roughly halves the size of a scanned black-and-white document and makes faint text easier to read on a phone.
  • Phones and tablets have a lower canvas ceiling than desktops. If a very large page at a very high DPI exceeds it, the page is rendered at the highest resolution the device allows, and the tool tells you.

Convert a PDF in three steps

1

Open the PDF

Drag it in or pick it. Password-protected files ask for the password, which is used on your device only.

2

Choose pages and settings

Click pages or type a range, then pick PNG, JPG or WebP, the DPI or pixel width, background and colour mode.

3

Download

One page downloads as an image, several as a ZIP of numbered files — or stack them into one long image.

Frequently asked questions

Is my PDF uploaded?

No. The PDF is opened and every page is rendered in your browser. The rendering engine and its fonts are loaded from this site; the document itself never leaves your device.

Is it free?

Opening a PDF, previewing every page and choosing what to convert is free. Converting to images is a Pro feature, included in every Pro pass — monthly, quarterly or yearly.

Can it open password-protected PDFs?

Yes, if you know the password: it is asked for when the file is opened and used locally to decrypt it. It cannot remove a password you don't have.

What is the maximum resolution?

Up to 1200 DPI, or up to 16,384 pixels wide. Very large pages at very high settings are capped by what your browser can draw — around 72 megapixels per page on a desktop and 16 megapixels on phones and tablets.

Will the text stay sharp?

Yes. Text and vector graphics are redrawn at the resolution you choose rather than enlarged from a screenshot, so a 300 DPI render is as sharp as a 300 DPI print.

How many pages can I convert?

There is no page limit. Pages are rendered one at a time and released as soon as they are encoded, so a long document takes longer rather than running out of memory.

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