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Convert PDF to JPG

Files never leave your device. All processing happens in your browser.

Lower means a smaller file. Above 90 the file grows fast for little visible gain.

Pixels. PDF is vector, so it has no fixed size — you choose the resolution to render at.

JPG has no transparency, so see-through areas are filled with this colour.

How to convert PDF to JPG

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    Drop in your PDF.

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    Set the output width if the default is not what you need.

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    Download one JPG per page.

This is the one PDF tool here that rasterises. Every other operation on this site copies page objects and keeps them as text and vectors; this one draws each page into a grid of pixels, because that is what an image is. It is worth understanding what that costs before you use it.

What you lose, permanently

Text stops being text. It becomes a picture of text — not selectable, not searchable, and invisible to screen readers. Vector diagrams stop scaling: they look right at the size you rendered and soft at any larger one. Links, bookmarks and form fields disappear entirely.

That is a real loss, and it is why the answer to "how do I share this PDF" is usually to share the PDF. Converting to images makes sense when the destination genuinely cannot take a document: a social post, a marketplace listing, a chat app that will not preview PDFs, a website that only accepts images, or a slide you want to paste a page into.

Choosing a width

A PDF page has no pixel size — it is measured in points, and rendering is a choice about resolution rather than a conversion. The default is about 144 DPI, which is sharp on screen for a typical A4 page. Setting an output width overrides that.

  • 1000–1200 pixels wide is plenty for screen viewing and email.
  • 1600–2000 for a page with small print that people may zoom into.
  • 2480 is A4 at 300 DPI, if the result is going to print.
  • Below about 800, body text on a full page becomes hard to read.

JPG or PNG?

JPG for pages that are mostly photographs, and where file size matters. PNG for pages that are mostly text or line art, because JPEG compression softens exactly the sharp high-contrast edges that letterforms are made of. A page of dense text converted to JPG at a low quality setting develops a visible haze around the characters that PNG avoids entirely.

Since JPEG cannot store transparency and PDF pages have no background of their own, each page is drawn onto white before encoding. Without that, transparent regions would come out black.

Everything stays local

The renderer and its worker are served from this site rather than from a CDN, so no code and no page content is fetched from anywhere else while you convert. That matters for the documents people typically rasterise — statements, letters and certificates being prepared for an upload form that will not take a PDF.

Questions about PDF to JPG

Will the text still be selectable?

No. Rasterising turns text into a picture of text, so it cannot be selected, searched or read by a screen reader. If you need that, keep the PDF and use the page tools instead of converting to images.

What output width should I choose?

1000 to 1200 pixels suits screen viewing, 1600 to 2000 if people will zoom into small print, and 2480 is A4 at 300 DPI for printing. Below about 800 pixels, body text on a full page becomes hard to read.

Should I use JPG or PNG?

JPG for pages that are mostly photographic and where size matters. PNG for text and line art, because JPEG softens sharp edges and small print suffers first.

Do I get one image per page?

Yes, one file per page, numbered with leading zeros so they sort correctly. A 20-page document gives 20 images.

Why is the background white rather than transparent?

JPEG cannot store transparency, and PDF pages have no background of their own, so each page is drawn onto white first. Without that, transparent areas would encode as black.

Can I convert a password-protected PDF?

No — it is refused with a message explaining why. Open it in a PDF reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, and convert that.

A page failed with a size error. Why?

Very large pages such as posters and plans can exceed what a browser tab can render at a high width. Set a smaller output width and it will succeed.

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