PDF to Image
Turn PDF pages into high-quality PNG or JPG images. Export one page or all of them at once.
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How it works
This renders each page of a PDF to an image in your browser using pdf.js, the same engine Firefox uses to display PDFs natively. Drop a file, pick a format and a scale, and get one image per page. Nothing is uploaded.
Because it is a real renderer rather than an image extractor, what you get is the page as it looks: text, vectors, embedded fonts and images composited together. Pulling the original embedded photos back out of a PDF is a different job and not what this does.
More detail
Format and scale
PNG is lossless and the right pick for pages that are mostly text or line art, where JPEG's ringing around sharp edges is obvious and ugly. JPEG is smaller and fine for pages that are mostly photographic, and it takes a quality setting.
Scale is a multiplier on the PDF's native size. 1x renders at the page's nominal resolution, which is usually too soft to read comfortably on a screen. 2x is a sensible default. Higher scales get sharp quickly but also get large quickly, since you are multiplying both dimensions.
Things worth knowing
The pdf.js library and its worker are fetched from a public CDN on first use, so the first document in a session takes longer to start.
Rendering is per page and memory-bound. A long document at a high scale factor is the case most likely to fail, because each rendered page is a full bitmap held in the tab. If a large PDF dies partway, drop the scale.
Password-protected PDFs cannot be opened. There is no way around that here.
There is no OCR. If the PDF is a scan, the output is a picture of a scan, and the text in it is still not selectable.
Questions
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. Rendering happens in your browser with pdf.js. The only network requests are for the library and its worker script, which are cached after the first use.
PNG or JPEG?
PNG for text-heavy or line-art pages, because JPEG rings around sharp edges and makes small text look dirty. JPEG for photographic pages where the file size difference is worth it.
What scale should I use?
2x is a good default. 1x matches the PDF's nominal size and usually looks soft on screen. Go higher only if you need to zoom in, and expect the files to grow with the square of the scale.
Can I get the original images out of the PDF instead?
Not with this. It renders pages as they appear rather than extracting embedded assets, so what you get is a flattened picture of the whole page including its text and vectors.