Convert PDF to JPG
Turn a page of a PDF into a picture.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
Download
Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP.
Sometimes a PDF has to be a picture: a form that only accepts images, a page you want to post in a chat, a slide for a presentation, a certificate for a profile. This page draws a page of your PDF and saves it as a JPG that goes anywhere a photo does.
One page is converted at a time. The first page is shown to begin with; when the file has more, a page number appears in the editor and you choose the one you want. Each page is drawn at 200 dots per inch, so an A4 or Letter page becomes about 1650 by 2340 pixels, sharp enough to read small print and to print again. Very large pages, such as posters, are drawn at a lower resolution so that the picture stays manageable.
Text is turned into pixels, so it can no longer be selected or searched in the JPG. For pages that are mostly text or line drawings, PNG keeps edges crisper; switch the format in the editor. A PDF that asks for a password to open cannot be converted. Your PDF travels over an encrypted connection, is drawn on our own servers and is deleted within one hour.
Typical reasons to turn a PDF page into a JPG
Upload forms are the commonest one. A portal asks for a picture of your diploma, your ID or a proof of address, the document exists only as a PDF, and the form takes JPG and PNG and nothing else. Messaging is the second: a page sent as a picture appears right in the chat, where a PDF is an attachment people have to open. Then come slides, where a page of a report can be dropped in as an image, and social posts, online listings and websites that show pictures and not documents.
For all of these the page only has to be looked at. When the recipient needs to search the text, fill in fields or print many pages, send the PDF itself.
Quality and file size for pages of text
This page starts at quality 90, higher than a photo needs. Letters are small shapes with hard edges, the hardest thing for JPEG to keep clean, and at lower settings a grey haze appears around them. At 90 an A4 page of text is typically 300 to 600 KB and reads as well as the PDF did. A page full of photographs can reach 1 to 2 MB.
If the destination has a limit, do not guess at a quality. Switch to Target size, type the limit, and the search finds the best setting that fits. For a strict limit such as 100 KB, reduce the width first with Resize; a page 1000 pixels wide is still legible on a phone and leaves far more of the budget for each letter.
Getting only part of a page
Often it is not the page you want but something on it: a chart, a table, a signature block, one photograph. Convert the page, then open Crop in the same editor and drag the rectangle around the part you need. The crop is taken from the full 200 dpi rendering, so a chart that spans a third of an A4 page still comes out about 550 pixels wide, far sharper than a screenshot of the PDF viewer at normal zoom.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert every page at once?
No, one page per conversion. Choose the page number in the editor and download, then choose the next.
What resolution is the JPG?
200 dpi: an A4 page becomes about 1650 × 2340 pixels. Use Resize in the editor if you want a smaller picture.
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
Yes. A scanned page is drawn like any other. To get its text out, use the image-to-text tool on the result.
Can it open a password-protected PDF?
No. Remove the password in a PDF program first.
Can I put the JPGs back together into a PDF?
Not here. This site converts PDF pages to pictures but does not build PDF files. Most operating systems can print several images to a PDF if you need that.
Will the fonts look right if I do not have them installed?
Yes, in nearly all cases. PDFs normally carry their fonts inside the file, and the page is drawn with those. Only a PDF made without embedded fonts falls back on substitutes.