PDF to JPG — Every Page as an Image
Turn each page of a PDF into a JPG. Pages are rendered at the resolution you pick — 72 DPI for a web thumbnail, 300 for something that will be printed — and come back as a ZIP of numbered images. The rendering runs in your browser with pdf.js, so a 200-page document is limited by your machine, not by an upload quota.
Drop PDF files here or click to select
Multiple files allowed · one ZIP of JPGs per PDF
No PDF handy? Try sample-10-pages.pdf — more free sample files.
Which DPI do you actually want?
DPI is the only setting that really matters here, because it decides both how sharp the image is and how big the file gets — and the relationship is quadratic. Doubling DPI quadruples the pixel count.
- 72 DPI — an A4 page becomes about 595 × 842 px. Fine for a thumbnail, a forum post, or a preview image. Body text is readable but soft.
- 150 DPI — about 1240 × 1754 px. The sensible default: text is comfortably legible on screen and at 100% zoom, and the files stay small enough to email.
- 300 DPI — about 2480 × 3508 px. What a printer wants. Use it when the JPG will be placed in a document that gets printed, or when someone will zoom in on a detail.
- 600 DPI — about 4960 × 7016 px, roughly 35 megapixels per page. Only for line art or a scan you intend to re-OCR. Expect several megabytes a page and a slow render.
JPG or PNG for a page of text?
JPG is the right answer for photographs and scans, and the wrong one for crisp text. Its compression works by discarding high-frequency detail, and the hard black-on-white edge of a letter is nothing but high-frequency detail — so you get faint grey haloes and mottling around the glyphs, worst at small sizes and low DPI, exactly where you were trying to save bytes.
A rule that works: if the page is mostly a photograph or a colour scan, use JPG and it will be several times smaller than the PNG. If the page is a document — text, tables, diagrams, a screenshot of an interface — use PNG, which is lossless and often smaller too, because large flat white areas compress extremely well and JPG has no equivalent trick.
What you get, and what you lose
Each page becomes one image named after the source file and page number, all zipped together. The output is a picture of the page: whatever was text is now pixels. That means no selecting, no copying, no searching, and no reflow — which is sometimes the point (a JPG cannot be edited by accident) and sometimes a trap.
If you wanted the words rather than the look, PDF to text extracts them directly, and PDF to Word gives you something editable. If you wanted the pictures that were embedded in the PDF rather than renders of the pages, Extract images is the tool — it pulls out the original image objects at their original resolution, with no re-compression.
How to convert a PDF to JPG
- Drop the PDF — or several. Each one produces its own ZIP of JPGs.
- Leave the format on JPG, or switch to PNG if the pages are text-heavy and you want no compression artefacts.
- Pick the DPI from the guide above: 72 for the web, 150 for general use, 300 if it will be printed.
- Click Convert to JPG and watch the per-page progress. Large documents at high DPI take a while — the work is happening on your machine.
- Download the ZIP and check one page at full size before converting the rest of a batch at the same settings.
FAQ
How do I convert only one page of a PDF to JPG?
Pull that page out first with Extract pages — type its number, download the one-page PDF — then convert that. It saves rendering the other 200 pages.
Why is my JPG blurry?
The DPI was too low for the size you are viewing it at. A 72 DPI render looks fine as a thumbnail and soft at full screen; re-run at 150 or 300. Blurriness is a resolution choice made at conversion time and cannot be fixed afterwards by enlarging the image.
Can I convert a 500-page PDF?
Yes, but it is bounded by memory: every page is rendered to a canvas and held until the ZIP is built. At 150 DPI a few hundred pages is usually fine; at 600 DPI you will want to split the file first with Split PDF and convert in chunks.
Is there a file-size limit?
No server limit, because there is no server. The practical ceiling is your browser tab's memory, which is far more generous than the 10–25 MB caps most free upload-based converters impose.
Do the JPGs keep the page's transparency?
JPG has no transparency, so transparent areas are composited onto white. If you need transparency preserved, choose PNG.
Are my files uploaded?
Never. Rendering happens in your browser with pdf.js and the ZIP is assembled in the tab. See the privacy policy.
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