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Turn a PDF page into a picture you can use

A slide for a deck, an image for a web page, a cover for a video, a page for a print shop: choose the pages, choose the resolution, and download JPGs or PNGs - individually or as one ZIP. The PDF is opened in your browser and never uploaded.

Short answerLast edited October 31, 2026

The PDF to Image Converter turns PDF pages into images at the resolution and format you choose, one file per page or for a selection of pages. The pages are rendered in your browser, so the document never leaves your device. An A4 page at 300 dpi is 2,480 × 3,508 pixels.

96 · 150 · 300dpi, chosen per export
JPG + PNGtwo formats, one run
1 ZIPthe whole document at once
no uploadthe file stays in the tab

A PDF page has no pixels until you give it some

A PDF describes a page in points: 72 points to the inch, no resolution, no fixed pixel grid. That is why the same document looks sharp on a laptop and soft in a screenshot. The number you pick at export is the bridge between the two worlds - it decides how many pixels each point becomes.

At 96 dpi one point becomes 1.33 pixels, which is what a screen shows. At 300 dpi it becomes 4.16 pixels, which is what a print shop asks for. Nothing in the file changes; only the sampling does. Export the same page twice at 96 and 300 dpi and you get a 794-pixel-wide image and a 2480-pixel-wide image of the exact same content, and the second one is roughly ten times heavier.

This is also why the tool asks for pages separately from resolution. A 200-page report exported at 300 dpi is a gigabyte of images nobody asked for; page 1 and page 7 at 150 dpi is usually the whole job.

Pixel sizes at the three resolutions, for the page shapes you are most likely to meet
Page96 dpi (screen)150 dpi (reading)300 dpi (print)
A4 portrait (210 x 297 mm)794 x 11231240 x 17542480 x 3508
US Letter (8.5 x 11 in)816 x 10561275 x 16502550 x 3300
A5 flyer (148 x 210 mm)560 x 793875 x 12401750 x 2480
16:9 presentation slide1280 x 7202000 x 11254000 x 2250
Receipt roll (80 mm wide)302 x variable472 x variable945 x variable

Pick the number by where the image goes

Resolution is not a quality setting, it is a destination setting. A 300 dpi A4 page is 2480 pixels wide; if it is going into a web page that renders it 700 pixels wide, three quarters of those pixels are downloaded and thrown away. The browser will smooth them, the visitor waits, and the page is slower for no visible gain.

The one case where exporting above the target size helps is when the image will be scaled up later: a logo that appears at 1000 pixels on a retina screen, a page that will be cropped and zoomed in a video editor, or a scan that a printer will enlarge. In every other case, match the pixels to the place they will be shown.

Before you export
  • Decide the destination first, then the dpi
  • Use a page range - exporting 200 pages is rarely the goal
  • Choose PNG if the page has thin lines, small text or a logo
  • Choose JPG for photographs and scanned pages
  • Check one page before you download the ZIP
  • Keep the PDF: the images are a copy, not the document

Three clicks, in this order

1

Drop the PDF

The tool reads the page count straight away, so you know what you are working with before choosing anything.

2

Choose format, dpi and pages

Leave the page field empty for the whole file, or type a range such as 1-3, 7, 10-12. Numbering starts at 1.

3

Check, then download

Each page appears with its real pixel size and file size. Take one file, or all of them as a ZIP.

JPG or PNG: the decision is about the content

JPG is the right choice for a page that is mostly a photograph or a scan: a brochure cover, a printed photo, a screenshot of a picture-heavy slide. It throws away detail the eye does not notice and gives you a file a quarter of the size.

What it does badly is edges. Small text on a plain background picks up a soft halo, thin table rules turn grey, and a logo with two flat colours gets a faint fringe. It also has no transparency at all, so a page with a gap becomes white - which is fine for paper, wrong for a sticker or an overlay.

For a 150 dpi export of a normal text page, JPG is still perfectly readable. The damage shows up when somebody zooms in or prints at 300 dpi, not when they read it.

Questions people ask before exporting

Why is my exported page smaller than the dpi suggests?
Because the page is smaller than A4. The pixel count is dpi divided by 72, multiplied by the page size in points. An A6 card at 300 dpi is 1240 pixels wide, not 2480; the resolution is the same, there is simply less paper. The row under each result shows the real pixel size, so you can check before downloading.
Can I export only some pages?
Yes. Type a range such as 2-4, 9, 14-16 and only those pages are rendered, in the order the ranges are written. Leave the field empty to export everything. A range that points outside the document is ignored rather than producing a blank page.
Does the tool work with a password-protected PDF?
No. An encrypted file cannot be opened without the password and the tool has no field to ask for one; remove the protection in your PDF reader first, then export. The same applies to a PDF that is damaged: the page count appears and then rendering stops.
Why does a scanned PDF look blurry at 300 dpi?
Because the scan inside it was made at a lower resolution. Exporting at 300 dpi cannot recreate detail that was never captured: the page is upscaled, not improved. If the original scan is 150 dpi, a 150 dpi export is the honest one and the file is much smaller.
Is the image the same as a screenshot of the page?
Cleaner. A screenshot captures whatever your screen shows, including the reader's toolbar, the zoom level and the screen's own pixel density. The export renders the page itself at exactly the resolution you asked for, at the page's real width, with no window around it.
Where do the files go when I close the tab?
Nowhere - they were never anywhere else. Pages are drawn in the tab, the images are created in memory and the download goes straight to your disk. Closing the tab discards the rest, which is also why a long export has to be repeated if you close it too early.

One page, one resolution, one download

Choose the pages and the dpi, export, and keep the PDF for the archive.

Export my pages

Quick facts

  1. The output size follows the chosen dpi: an A4 page at 150 dpi is 1,240 × 1,754 pixels, and at 300 dpi it is 2,480 × 3,508.
  2. PNG keeps a page with text crisp, while JPEG makes the same page much smaller and slightly softer around the letters.
  3. A PDF describes every element by its position on the page, which is why it looks identical everywhere and why its text does not reflow.Adobe
  4. PDF 2.0 permits AES-256 encryption for the password that protects a document, while older files may use 40-bit RC4.Adobe
  5. JPEG splits the picture into 8×8 pixel blocks and stores a discrete cosine transform of each block, which is where its block-shaped artefacts come from.ITU-T

Questions people ask

How do I convert a PDF page to a JPG or PNG?
Choose the pages, select JPG or PNG, set the resolution and export. Use 150 dpi for screen images and 300 dpi for printing. Each page is saved as its own image file.
What dpi should I use to convert a PDF to images?
150 dpi is enough for screens and sharing, and 300 dpi is the common standard for printing. Higher values produce much larger files without making the text on screen look clearer.
Is a PDF converted to an image still searchable?
No. A converted page is a picture, so its text cannot be selected or searched. Keep the original PDF if you need the text, or run OCR on the images to recover it.

What this page is about

  • PDF

    The Portable Document Format, standardised as ISO 32000 and documented by Adobe in the PDF 1.7 reference, that fixes the layout of a page.

  • JPEG

    A lossy still-image format standardised as ITU-T T.81 in 1992 and still the default format of most cameras and phones.

  • PNG

    A lossless image format defined by the W3C with an 8-bit alpha channel and gamma information, designed for the web in 1996.

  • Canvas

    The HTML element that gives a page a pixel buffer to draw on and export as PNG, JPEG or WebP.

Official sources cited on this page

  1. PDF 32000-1:2008 — Document management, Portable Document FormatAdobe
  2. Recommendation T.81: Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still imagesITU-T
  3. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification, Third EditionW3C
  4. HTML Living Standard (canvas, file input, media elements)WHATWG

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