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PDF to JPG

Turn each PDF page into a JPG or a PNG. Download the pages one by one or as a zip. The PDF is drawn in this tab.

PDF to JPG

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Draw each PDF page as a JPG or a PNG. Quality applies to JPG. A zip holds every page.

PDF to JPG means drawing each page and saving that drawing as a JPEG. PDF to image is the same job, and PDF to PNG is the same job with a lossless file. This page does all three from one form. Choose the PDF, choose JPG or PNG, and convert. You get one image per page and a zip of the set. The names are page-001.jpg, page-002.jpg, and so on, or the PNG equivalents. Order follows the page order in the file. A cover that is page one in the PDF is page-001 in the zip.

The drawing is done with pdf.js, the same viewer library the compress tool uses, including its fonts so a normal text page has letters rather than empty boxes. The scale is chosen so the longer side of the page is about 1400 pixels, and it is capped so a tiny page is not blown up past twice its original size. That is a reading size for a screen, not a print-shop raster of a poster. A complex page can take a moment. The note says the pages are being drawn. Twenty-five pages is the limit, so a long manual does not freeze the tab. Split a longer file first, or convert the section you need.

JPG quality starts at 82 and can move from 40 to 100. It affects JPEG only. PNG ignores it and keeps a lossless picture of the same pixels, which is the right choice when the page is a line drawing or small text you do not want smeared. JPEG is the right choice when the page is already a photo and you want a smaller file. Either way the result is an image. You cannot search the JPG for a sentence, and a screen reader will not see the original text layer, because the text layer was not copied. If you needed to mark the PDF and keep it a PDF, the PDF editor adds text and ink on top of the original pages instead of replacing them with pictures.

Passworded files are not unlocked. This page does not ask for a password and does not try common ones. A file that the browser cannot open produces an error on the form rather than a blank image that looks successful. Scanned pages that are already pictures convert like any other page: you get another picture, not a newly recognised word. There is no OCR step.

The zip holds the images that were just encoded. It does not compress them a second time in a way that would change a JPEG into something else. Download a single page from its own link if you only needed one. Going the other direction, several pictures into one PDF, is JPG to PDF. Joining PDF files without drawing them is merge PDF. Making a smaller PDF by redrawing pages as JPEGs inside a new PDF is compress PDF. The file converter also exposes a PDF-to-image path among other pairs. This page is the dedicated one, with the format switch, the quality slider, and the zip.

Nothing is uploaded. The PDF stays on the device, the images stay in the tab, and refresh clears them. There is no account. The directory lists every tool if you arrived here from a search for a different conversion. Check the first image before you send the zip: a page that looked fine in a desktop viewer can be a scan that was sideways in the file, and this tool does not rotate it for you. If the letters look soft, switch to PNG or raise the JPG quality before you blame the original file.

Questions people actually ask

Does PDF to JPG keep the text as text?

No. Each page is drawn to pixels. You can read the words in the picture, but you cannot select them as text in the JPG. A PNG of the same page is still a picture.

How do I get PDF to PNG instead?

Choose PNG in the format menu. Quality applies only to JPG. PNG is lossless and usually larger. The zip uses page-001.png or page-001.jpg and so on.

How many pages can I convert?

Up to 25 pages, and the drawing is scaled so the long edge stays near 1400 pixels. Longer files should be split first. Passworded PDFs are not unlocked.

Is the PDF uploaded?

No. pdf.js draws the pages from a copy that shipped with this site, after you choose the file. The zip is built in the tab. Closing the tab drops the images.

How do I go the other way?

JPG or PNG to a PDF, one image per page, is the JPG to PDF tool. Merging several PDFs is a different page. Compressing a PDF by redrawing it is a different page again.

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