How to convert a PDF to JPG

Why turn a PDF into images?

A PDF is ideal for keeping a document together, but plenty of places only accept pictures. Social media posts, WhatsApp statuses, slide decks, website builders and some online forms want a JPG or PNG, not a PDF.

• Sharing one page quickly - a timetable, a ticket, a page of notes - so people can open it straight from a chat.
• Putting a page into a presentation or a Word document as a picture.
• Uploading to a form that asks for an image, such as a certificate or a result sheet.
• Making a preview or thumbnail of a report or brochure for a website.

Converting draws each page exactly as a PDF viewer shows it and saves that drawing as an image file. The PDF itself isn't changed.

Step by step: convert PDF pages to JPG

1. Open PDF to JPG and select your PDF, or drop it onto the box. The tool takes a single PDF of up to 50 MB per conversion.
2. Under Format, choose JPG (or PNG - see the next section).
3. Pick a Resolution. 150 DPI is selected to start with and suits most uses.
4. For JPG, set JPG quality to High, Medium or Small file.
5. Under Pages, keep All pages or switch to Choose pages and enter the page numbers.
6. Press Convert to JPG. A line by the button tells you how many images will be made.
7. Download the result: a single image, or a ZIP file with one image per page.

On a phone, the ZIP opens in the Files app on iPhone or Android, where you can extract the images and save them to your gallery. If you only need one page, choose just that page and you'll get the image directly with no ZIP to unpack.

JPG or PNG: which format to choose

Choose JPG for scanned documents, brochures full of photos, and anything you'll send by message or email. Choose PNG for pages that are mostly typed text, diagrams, charts or line drawings, where the sharpest possible edges matter more than size. The PDF to PNG page opens the same tool with PNG already selected.

Areas without a background in the PDF come out white in both formats, so the images look the same as the page on screen instead of turning black or checkered in other apps.

Which resolution (DPI) do you need?

DPI means dots per inch: how many pixels the image gets for each inch of the page. More dots give a sharper picture and a bigger file. For an A4 page, the options work out roughly like this:

Going higher than you need only costs time and storage: a 300 DPI image has four times the pixels of a 150 DPI one, and converting many pages at 300 DPI is noticeably slower on a phone. Very large pages, such as posters or engineering drawings, are automatically saved at a lower resolution so your browser doesn't run out of memory; a notice tells you which pages were affected.

Converting only some pages

Choose Choose pages and type the pages you want in Pages to convert. Use commas between items and a dash for a range:

• 3 - just page 3
• 1-3, 5 - pages 1, 2, 3 and 5
• 2, 4, 6 - three separate pages
• 10-12 - a range in the middle of the document

Picking pages keeps the download small and saves you from searching through a ZIP of 40 images for the one you wanted. If you'd rather keep the selected pages as a PDF instead, Split PDF does that.

When the images don't look right

• Text looks blurry. Raise the resolution to 200 or 300 DPI, or switch to PNG.
• The files are too big to send. Use 150 or 96 DPI, JPG with Medium or Small file quality, and convert only the pages you need. Compress Image can shrink the results further.
• The images are the wrong shape for a post. Resize Image changes their size afterwards.
• Some letters look different from the original. The PDF uses fonts it doesn't contain; the nearest font on your device is used instead. Exporting the PDF again with fonts embedded fixes this.
• The PDF won't open. PDFs that need a password to open can't be converted. Open it in the program that made it and save an unprotected copy first.

Using the images afterwards

Each image is named after its page number, so the order is easy to follow when you insert them somewhere else. A few common next steps:

• In PowerPoint, Google Slides or Word, insert the image like any photo and stretch it to fill the slide or page; at 150 DPI it stays sharp on a projector.
• On Instagram or Facebook, post several pages as a carousel. Square crops can cut off the edges of a portrait page, so check the preview before you publish.
• In WhatsApp or Telegram, send the images as photos for a quick look, or as documents if the recipient needs to zoom into small print without extra compression.
• To turn the images back into a PDF later, for example after editing one of them, use JPG to PDF.

Converting private PDFs without uploading them

Most PDF-to-JPG websites upload your document, render it on their server and send the images back. That's a real risk when the PDF is a bank statement, an identity document or someone's medical results.

Here the rendering happens in your own browser, using the same kind of PDF engine that displays PDFs in Firefox. Your file stays on your device, the images are created there, and closing the tab clears everything. There's no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how often you use it. How files stay private explains the details.