PDF to Image Converter

How it works

Each page of your PDF is rendered onto a canvas at 2x resolution and exported as a PNG image — the same technique PDF viewers use to display pages, just capturing the result as an image instead of showing it on screen. Nothing is uploaded: the whole conversion runs in your browser's memory.

Common uses

• Pulling a single diagram or page out of a longer PDF as an image
• Creating thumbnail previews of document pages
• Pasting a PDF page into a slide deck or image editor that doesn't accept PDFs

Size and file naming

Pages are drawn at twice the PDF's own point size, so an A4 page (595 × 842 points) becomes an image of roughly 1,190 × 1,684 pixels and a US Letter page (612 × 792) becomes 1,224 × 1,584. Spread across A4's 8.27 inches that is about 144 pixels per inch: sharp on screen and fine for slides or documents, but soft if you print it large, where 300 pixels per inch would need about 2,480 pixels across.

A one-page PDF gives a single PNG named after the file, such as report-page.png. A longer PDF gives a ZIP named like the PDF, containing one PNG per page, for example report-1.png, report-2.png and so on. An 8-page report therefore arrives as a ZIP of 8 images.

Limits

• Every page is converted. There is no page selection, so use Split PDF first if you only need some pages.
• The output is always PNG at this one resolution, with no JPG or quality option.
• All pages are rendered and held in memory together, so a long or image-heavy PDF can be slow, and the file limit is 100 MB.
• Password-protected PDFs can't be read; unlock them first.
• Text becomes pixels, so it can no longer be selected or searched. Use PDF to Text if you need the words.