How to turn PDF pages into images

Last updated: 28 October 2026

A PDF is great for reading and printing, but sometimes you need a page as a picture: to put a chart into a slide, show a document on a website, post a flyer on social media or send a preview to someone on their phone. Converting the page to an image solves that, and the main decisions are the format and the resolution.

JPG or PNG?

• PNG is best for pages with text, tables, charts and diagrams. It is lossless, so letters and thin lines stay perfectly sharp, and for mostly-text pages the files are small. It can also give the page a transparent background, which helps when you place it on a coloured slide. Use PDF to PNG.
• JPG is best for brochures, magazines and pages that are mostly photos, where it makes much smaller files. Use PDF to JPG.

If you are unsure, take PNG for documents and JPG for anything that looks like a photo.

Which resolution (DPI)?

A PDF page has no fixed pixel size, so the converter has to draw it at a chosen resolution, measured in dots per inch (DPI). For an A4 page that means:

150 DPI is the right choice most of the time. A US Letter page comes out slightly wider and shorter, at 1275 × 1650 pixels at 150 DPI.

Step by step

1. Open PDF to JPG or PDF to PNG and drop in the PDF.
2. Choose the resolution. For PNG, tick Transparent background if you want it.
3. Every page becomes a separate image. Download the pages you need, or all of them at once as a ZIP file.

Everything happens in your browser, so confidential documents are not uploaded anywhere.

Only need one or two pages?

For a long PDF, it is quicker to first cut out the pages you want with Split PDF, for example pages 3–4, and then convert just that small file to images.

Tips for a sharp result

• If a scanned page looks soft, the original scan was low resolution. A higher DPI setting cannot add detail that is not in the PDF.
• For a chart in a presentation, PNG at 150 DPI is usually sharp enough even on a large screen.
• Social networks recompress uploads, so a 150 DPI JPG is plenty for a post.

Tools used in this guide

• PDF → JPG

  Save each page of a PDF as a JPG image, at the resolution you need.

• PDF → PNG

  Save each page of a PDF as a sharp PNG image, with an optional transparent background.

• PDF → SEPARATE PDFS

  Save every page as its own PDF, or pull out the pages you need.

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