PDF to Images

Turning pages into pictures

Each page is drawn onto a canvas at the resolution you choose and saved as a PNG. One image per page, downloadable individually.

Resolution is the decision that matters

A PDF stores instructions rather than pixels, so it has no inherent resolution — you are choosing one. The multiplier is against the nominal 72 dots per inch of PDF coordinates:

• Screen (72 dpi) — an A4 page comes out about 595 × 842. Fine for a thumbnail, too soft to read comfortably.
• Double (144 dpi) — about 1190 × 1684. The sensible default for anything viewed on screen.
• Triple (216 dpi) — sharp on a high-density display.
• Print (300 dpi) — about 2480 × 3508. The standard for printing, and large files.

What you lose by converting

Everything that made it a PDF. The text becomes pixels, so it is no longer selectable, searchable or accessible to a screen reader. Links stop working. The file gets substantially bigger.

Only convert when you specifically need an image — for a slide, a thumbnail, an image-only upload field, or somewhere PDFs are not accepted. If you just want to view or share the document, send the PDF.

PNG keeps every pixel exactly

PNG is lossless, so text edges stay crisp with no compression artefacts. That makes it the right choice for documents, diagrams and anything with fine lines. The files are larger than JPEG — for a page of text, often considerably so, though PNG handles large flat white areas well.

Common uses

• Putting a page into a slide deck or a document.
• An upload form that only accepts images.
• Thumbnails or previews of a document.
• Sharing a page somewhere that will not display a PDF inline.

Questions people ask

What resolution should I choose?

144 dpi for viewing on screen, 300 dpi for printing. Higher means sharper and considerably larger.

Why is the text no longer selectable?

Because it is now pixels rather than text. That is what converting to an image does, and it cannot be reversed without character recognition.

Should I use PNG or JPEG?

PNG for crisp text and diagrams, JPEG for much smaller files at the cost of faint artefacts around letters.

Can I get one image containing all the pages?

No, each page is rendered separately. Combining them into one tall image would need a different tool.

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

No. It is read and rewritten in your browser. This site has no server that could receive it.

Does it work with a password-protected PDF?

Not reliably. An encrypted file has to be unlocked before it can be changed. Open it in a reader, enter the password, and save an unprotected copy first.

Is there a file size limit?

Only your device's memory. There is no server limit and no queue, though very large files will take a moment and use a fair amount of RAM.

Your file is not uploaded

This is the whole point of the page, so it is worth being exact about it.

Every well-known site offering these tools works by sending your PDF to their servers, processing it there, and sending a result back. For a holiday itinerary that is merely unnecessary. For a contract, a payslip, a medical letter, a bank statement or a scan of your passport, it means handing a private document to a company you have never dealt with, to be held for an unspecified time on infrastructure you cannot inspect.

Nothing here is uploaded. Your browser reads the file from your disk, rewrites it in memory, and hands you the result. The site is a set of static files with no server capable of receiving a document.

The libraries doing the work are served from this site rather than borrowed from someone else's CDN, so using these pages does not make a request to any third party either. You can check that on the about page, which lists every request this site makes, read live from your own browser.

It also means it works offline once loaded, there is no file size limit beyond your own memory, and there is no queue.