How to turn a PDF page into an image

Open the PDF, choose a resolution, and save the page you want as a JPG or a PNG. 150 DPI is right for anything that will be looked at on a screen and 300 DPI for anything that will be printed. Higher than 300 mostly buys file size.

PDF to JPG renders the pages in your browser and hands them back one by one, or all of them as a zip. PDF to JPG

Exporting pages as pictures

Open the PDF in the converter. Nothing is uploaded; the file is read inside the page.
Choose the resolution: 150 DPI for a screen, 300 DPI for print.
Choose JPG for scanned pages and photographs, or PNG for diagrams and screenshots of text.
Download the single page you need, or take all of them as a zip.

Why you would want an image at all

Because most places you want to paste a page into do not take PDFs. A message, a slide, a document, a form that asks for a photograph: all of them want a picture. Screenshotting the page in a reader works, and it gives you whatever resolution your screen happened to be, which is usually not enough to print and never consistent across pages. A proper export renders the page itself at a resolution you chose, and every page comes out the same.

Resolution is the whole decision

150 DPI is sharp on a phone and a laptop and small enough to send. 300 DPI carries roughly twice the detail in each direction, which is what print needs, and makes files about four times the size. Below about 96 DPI text starts to look soft on close inspection, which is fine for a quick reference and wrong for anything anyone has to read carefully.

DPI means dots per inch of the page's printed size, which is why the same setting produces different pixel counts from different pages: an A4 page at 150 DPI is about 1240 pixels across, and at 300 DPI about 2480. If a form tells you the pixel size it wants, work back from the page size, or simply try 150 first: it is the right answer for most screen destinations.

JPG or PNG

PNG is lossless, so a diagram, a chart or a screenshot of text stays crisp with no artefacts around the edges. On a photograph or a scanned page it produces a much larger file for no visible gain, and JPEG is the right answer there. There is no transparency question to worry about: a PDF page always has a background, so the export is always a full rectangle.

What the conversion throws away

Everything that made the PDF more than a picture. Selectable text becomes pixels; links stop being clickable; form fields become drawings of form fields; vector graphics that would print perfectly at any size become dots at the one size you exported. The image looks like the page, and that is all it is.

So convert for a destination that needs a picture, not for storage. If you keep only the images and delete the PDF, you have turned a document into photographs of a document, which is the exact transformation people come to this site to undo. Keep the PDF; export images from it when something asks for one.

When this is the wrong tool

If what you actually need is the text, an image of it is a detour: copy the text out of the PDF directly if it is selectable, and if it is not, the file is a scan and what you need is text recognition, not an image export. If you need the page as an editable document, neither an image nor anything on this site does that; a word processor's own PDF import is the honest route. And if you only need the PDF smaller, compress it rather than exporting pictures of it.

What makes a scanned PDF searchable

Large files take patience, not bandwidth

Rendering happens on your device, one page at a time, so a four-hundred-page PDF at 300 DPI will work and it will be slow. On an older phone it may run the tab out of memory before it finishes. Export in batches, or drop the resolution, rather than waiting for it to fail.

Or make the PDF itself smaller first

Password-protected files

If the PDF is encrypted you will be asked for the password, and without it the page cannot open the file. That is not a limitation of this tool: it is what the encryption is for, and nothing that runs in a browser gets around it.

Questions people ask next

What resolution do I need for printing?

300 DPI. Print needs roughly twice the detail a screen does, and going higher than 300 mostly buys file size rather than visible quality.

Can I export every page at once?

Yes. Take the whole document as a zip rather than saving pages one at a time. The zip is assembled in your browser like everything else here.

Is anything sent to a server?

No. The PDF is rendered by your browser, and the images are written by it too. There is no upload step and no endpoint here that could accept one.

Why does my exported page look different from the reader?

Almost always fonts. A PDF that did not embed its fonts is drawn with substitutes, and different software substitutes differently. The export shows the page as your browser's renderer draws it, which is what most readers will also see; a page that must look exactly right everywhere needed its fonts embedded when it was made.

Can I turn the images back into a PDF?

Yes, with the JPG to PDF tool, but know what the round trip costs: the result holds pictures of the pages, not the original's text and structure. If you still have the original PDF, use it rather than rebuilding from images.