How to convert
Drop your PDF onto the box, or click to browse. The page count appears straight away.
Not after every page? Every one starts selected, so click thumbnails to switch off the ones you do not want, or type a range like 1-3, 5 and skip the clicking entirely.
Then pick JPG or PNG, set quality and resolution, and hit convert. Thumbnails appear as pages finish.
What the resolution setting actually gives you
Nobody explains this, so here is the arithmetic.
A PDF does not store pages in pixels. It stores them in points, and there are exactly 72 points to an inch. A US Letter page is 612 by 792 points. A4 is 595 by 842. Those numbers never change, whatever the page contains.
Rendering multiplies that by a scale factor, and the scale factor is what the resolution dropdown sets. Multiply 72 by the scale and you get your actual dpi.
| Setting | Scale | Effective dpi | US Letter page becomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 1.5x | 108 dpi | 918 x 1188 px |
| High | 2x | 144 dpi | 1224 x 1584 px |
| Maximum | 3x | 216 dpi | 1836 x 2376 px |
Worth being straight about the consequence: even Maximum lands at 216 dpi, which sits below the 300 dpi that commercial printing expects. These settings are built for screens, and they are generous for that. If you need a genuine 300 dpi render for print, you need a scale of about 4.17, and that is outside what this tool offers.
For anything going on a website, in a slide deck, or into a chat, High at 144 dpi is already more than most screens can show.
Your text stops being text
Converting to images throws away the text layer, permanently.
What comes out is a picture of each page. You cannot select a sentence. You cannot search for a phrase, or copy a paragraph, and screen readers get nothing at all from it. Anyone who wants to quote the document ends up retyping it.
None of that matters when the destination genuinely only takes images, which is why most people are here in the first place. It matters a lot when the destination would have accepted a PDF and nobody thought to check. Plenty of upload forms take PDF quite happily.
Need both? Keep the original and treat the images as a copy, not a replacement.
Expect the files to get bigger
A PDF is efficient. A stack of images is not.
Text inside a PDF is stored as characters plus font data, which costs almost nothing. Render that same page to an image and you are now storing a colour value for every single pixel. At 144 dpi, a Letter page is nearly two million of them.
So a 500 KB text PDF can come back as 10 MB of PNGs. That is normal, not a fault.
JPG helps a lot here, because it throws away detail your eye will not miss, while PNG keeps every pixel exactly as rendered. If the total size matters, go JPG, pull quality toward 80, and stay on Standard unless you have a reason to climb.
JPG or PNG
JPG for photos, scans, and anywhere file size matters. It is lossy, so fine detail softens a little. At quality 80 or above, almost nobody notices.
PNG for pages that are mostly text, diagrams, or line art. Being lossless, it keeps letter edges crisp rather than letting them pick up the faint smudging JPG leaves around hard black-on-white boundaries. It handles transparency too, though PDF pages seldom need that.
Short version. Page looks like a photograph? JPG. Page looks like a document? PNG will look noticeably sharper, and you will pay for it in megabytes.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert only some pages?
Yes. Every page starts selected, so click thumbnails to switch pages off, or type a range like 1-3, 5 to pick exactly what you want and skip the clicking.
What resolution should I choose?
High. At 144 dpi it suits anything shown on a screen. Drop to Standard when file size matters, and remember Maximum only reaches 216 dpi, still short of what commercial print expects.
Will I still be able to search the text?
No. Output is an image of each page, so the text layer is gone for good. Keep your original PDF if searchability matters.
Why are my images so much larger than the PDF?
A PDF stores text as characters. An image stores every pixel, and at 144 dpi a Letter page runs to nearly two million of them. Switch to JPG and lower quality if the total is a problem.
Can I get everything in one download?
Yes. Download all wraps every converted page into a single ZIP.
Is 216 dpi good enough to print?
On a home printer, usually. For commercial work, no, because print is specified at 300 dpi and that needs a higher scale than this tool offers.
Related: turn images back into a PDF · compress a PDF · split a PDF · compress the exported images.