Convert PDF to JPG

How to convert PDF to JPG

1. Drop your PDF files into the box above, or click to browse. You can also paste with Ctrl+V.
2. Adjust quality or resizing under Conversion settings if you need to. The defaults suit most photos.
3. Conversion starts automatically and runs on your device — watch the progress bar for each file.
4. Download files individually, or grab everything as a ZIP.

What changes when you convert PDF to JPG

A PDF page is a set of drawing instructions, not a grid of pixels. It says "place this glyph here at this size, stroke this curve, fill this path". That is why you can zoom into a PDF indefinitely and the text stays crisp — the viewer redraws it at whatever size you ask for.

Converting to JPG means executing those instructions once, at a resolution you choose, and keeping the result. The page stops being a description and becomes a photograph of itself. Everything that made it a document — selectable text, working links, form fields, searchability — is gone, because none of those things are pixels.

This makes resolution the only setting that really matters here, and it is the one people get wrong. PDF measures pages in points at 72 to the inch, so an A4 page is 595 × 842 points. Render at 72 DPI and you get a 595 × 842 pixel image: fine for a thumbnail, unreadable for body text. At 150 DPI, the default here, the same page becomes 1240 × 1754 — comfortable on screen and acceptable printed. At 300 DPI it is 2480 × 3508 and genuinely print-quality. At 600 DPI a single page can be larger than the entire source PDF, which is worth pausing over: you are storing a picture of a document that was smaller as a document.

Multi-page documents produce one image per page. Filenames are numbered with leading zeros — page-01, page-02 and so on — because unpadded numbers sort wrongly the moment a document passes nine pages, putting page 10 immediately after page 1 in every file manager. When there is more than one page the images download together as a ZIP.

Pages are rendered onto white. PDF pages are technically transparent, but every viewer draws them on white, so anything else would look wrong.

What is preserved

• The visual appearance of each page, exactly as a PDF viewer would draw it
• Page order, encoded in zero-padded filenames so the images sort correctly
• Embedded fonts and vector artwork, rasterised at the resolution you pick

What is lost

• All text as text — the output is a picture of words, not words. Nothing is selectable or searchable
• Hyperlinks, bookmarks, form fields and annotations
• Vector scalability: a rendered page is fixed at the resolution you chose
• Layers, optional content groups and any interactive elements
• Document metadata: title, author, creation date

What is altered

• Page transparency is composited onto white, which is how viewers display pages anyway
• Pages become raster images at a resolution you select, rather than resolution-independent descriptions

JPG support in browsers and operating systems

Checked on 2026-08-10. We re-verify this table every quarter.

When not to convert PDF to JPG

Do not convert if you need the text. Extracting text from a PDF is a different operation, and it keeps the words as words. Once rendered to JPG the only route back is OCR, which is error-prone and unnecessary when the original still has the text sitting right there.

Do not convert scanned documents to JPG for archiving. JPEG is lossy and its artefacts are worst on exactly the content scans contain: sharp black text on white. Use PNG for that, or keep the PDF.

Do not use JPG if the pages contain transparency you need to preserve — there is no alpha channel, so it is composited onto white. Convert to PNG instead.

Do not pick 600 DPI by default on the assumption that more is better. The files become enormous, most screens cannot show the difference, and a ten-page document can easily exceed 30 MB.

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