convert each page of a PDF into high-quality images. 100% client-side — your files never leave your browser.
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Drop a PDF in, and each page comes out as an image — PNG for maximum quality, JPG for smaller files. Download per-page or grab everything as a zip. Runs entirely in your browser using pdfjs-dist, the same library Firefox uses to render PDFs natively.
It is worth being precise about what this operation actually does, because there are two completely different things people sometimes want from “PDF to images.”
Rendering means rasterizing each page — the text, images, lines, and shapes — into a pixel grid. The output is a picture of what the page looks like. That is what this tool does.
Extracting means pulling the embedded image objects out of the PDF as their own files. A scan that contains one JPEG per page would yield those JPEGs back. A natively-authored PDF with no embedded images would yield nothing. This is a different operation that this tool does not currently perform.
For most use cases — embedding pages in slides, posting on social media, generating thumbnails — rendering is what you want.
Rendering a vector PDF page to a raster image requires picking a resolution. Too low and text looks fuzzy. Too high and the files balloon for no visible benefit. The right answer depends on where the image is going.
The default in this tool is around 150 DPI, which is where most experienced users land for general purpose conversions. Bump it up if you can see the rasterization; leave it alone otherwise.
Lossless. Right for any page with substantial text, line drawings, or sharp UI elements. The compression algorithm preserves every pixel, which matters when small text would develop visible artifacts under a lossy codec. Larger file sizes, especially for photo-heavy pages.
Lossy. Right for pages dominated by photographs, illustrations with smooth color gradations, or anywhere the artifacts of lossy compression are invisible. Much smaller file sizes for the same visual quality on photo content. Bad on text-heavy pages — you will see ringing artifacts around letters.
Mixed-content pages (a report with a photo embedded) are the hard case. PNG is the safer default if you cannot test both; the size penalty is rarely as bad as the artifact penalty.
Rasterizing a PDF is exactly the kind of self-contained compute that has no business happening on a server. The PDF itself contains everything needed for the render. The intermediate computation does not benefit from any cloud-side processing power for typical document sizes. And uploading your PDF to a stranger's server is the kind of unforced privacy mistake this site exists to avoid — see the longer write-up for the full reasoning.
Quality dropped while scrolling?
See images to PDF, which takes a sequence of images and assembles them back into a single PDF document — useful when you want to send the rendered output somewhere that prefers PDF as the delivery format.
Drop a PDF in, and each page comes out as an image — PNG for maximum quality, JPG for smaller files. Download per-page or grab everything as a zip. Runs entirely in your browser using pdfjs-dist, the same library Firefox uses to render PDFs natively.
It is worth being precise about what this operation actually does, because there are two completely different things people sometimes want from “PDF to images.”
Rendering means rasterizing each page — the text, images, lines, and shapes — into a pixel grid. The output is a picture of what the page looks like. That is what this tool does.
Extracting means pulling the embedded image objects out of the PDF as their own files. A scan that contains one JPEG per page would yield those JPEGs back. A natively-authored PDF with no embedded images would yield nothing. This is a different operation that this tool does not currently perform.
For most use cases — embedding pages in slides, posting on social media, generating thumbnails — rendering is what you want.
Rendering a vector PDF page to a raster image requires picking a resolution. Too low and text looks fuzzy. Too high and the files balloon for no visible benefit. The right answer depends on where the image is going.
The default in this tool is around 150 DPI, which is where most experienced users land for general purpose conversions. Bump it up if you can see the rasterization; leave it alone otherwise.
Lossless. Right for any page with substantial text, line drawings, or sharp UI elements. The compression algorithm preserves every pixel, which matters when small text would develop visible artifacts under a lossy codec. Larger file sizes, especially for photo-heavy pages.
Lossy. Right for pages dominated by photographs, illustrations with smooth color gradations, or anywhere the artifacts of lossy compression are invisible. Much smaller file sizes for the same visual quality on photo content. Bad on text-heavy pages — you will see ringing artifacts around letters.
Mixed-content pages (a report with a photo embedded) are the hard case. PNG is the safer default if you cannot test both; the size penalty is rarely as bad as the artifact penalty.
Rasterizing a PDF is exactly the kind of self-contained compute that has no business happening on a server. The PDF itself contains everything needed for the render. The intermediate computation does not benefit from any cloud-side processing power for typical document sizes. And uploading your PDF to a stranger's server is the kind of unforced privacy mistake this site exists to avoid — see the longer write-up for the full reasoning.
Quality dropped while scrolling?
See images to PDF, which takes a sequence of images and assembles them back into a single PDF document — useful when you want to send the rendered output somewhere that prefers PDF as the delivery format.
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