How to convert PDF pages to images
Render pages as PNG, JPEG or WEBP at whatever resolution the destination needs.
Sometimes a PDF is the wrong container. A slide deck wants an image. A web page wants a preview. A colleague on a locked-down machine cannot open PDFs at all but can certainly open a picture.
Rendering a page produces exactly what a reader would display, flattened into pixels. Two settings decide whether the result looks right: the format and the resolution.
The steps
- Upload the PDF.
- Pick a format — PNG for sharp text, JPEG for photographs, WEBP for the smallest files.
- Choose a resolution: 150 DPI for screens, 300 or more for print.
- Run the tool and download the images.
Choosing a format
PNG is lossless and keeps text edges crisp, which makes it the safe default for pages that are mostly text. JPEG is smaller for photographic pages but introduces artefacts around sharp edges — noticeable exactly where text meets background. WEBP is usually the smallest of the three at comparable quality, though a few older applications still cannot open it.
Choosing a resolution
150 DPI is comfortable for viewing on a screen. 300 DPI is the conventional floor for print. Going far above what the destination needs produces very large files and noticeably slower rendering without any visible benefit.
The transparency option keeps the page background transparent rather than white, which is useful when placing a page over another design. It applies to PNG and WEBP; JPEG has no way to store transparency.
Rendering versus extracting
If what you actually want is the original photographs that were placed into the document, rendering is the wrong tool — it gives you pictures of whole pages. Extract Images pulls out the embedded files at their stored quality instead.
