Convert PDF to JPG

Page to JPG or Extract Images?

The tool offers two different operations, and choosing the right one saves time:

• Page to JPG takes a "photo" of every page exactly as it looks on screen: text, drawings, backgrounds and pictures together. Use it to post a page on social media, put a slide into a presentation, send a page to someone who can't open PDFs, or preview a document on a device without a PDF reader.
• Extract Images ignores the page layout and pulls out the pictures that are stored inside the PDF: photos in a brochure, product shots in a catalogue, figures in a report. You get the images themselves without the surrounding text or margins.

Choosing the image quality

For Page to JPG you can choose between two quality levels:

High-quality images are roughly eight times larger in pixels, so the files are bigger and conversion takes longer, especially for long documents on a phone. If you only need to read the page on a screen, Normal is the faster and lighter choice.

What you get

A single-page PDF downloads as one JPG. A document with several pages, or several extracted images, downloads as a ZIP archive with one image per page, numbered in page order. Most operating systems open ZIP files with a double-click; on iPhone and Android the Files app can extract them.

Things worth knowing about extraction

• Vector graphics are not images. Logos, charts and diagrams drawn as vectors are part of the page instructions, not stored pictures, so "Extract Images" won't find them. Use Page to JPG at High quality to capture them instead.
• Scanned PDFs are one big image per page. Extracting images from a scan therefore returns the page scans themselves, usually at the scanner's original resolution.
• Image count can surprise you. Some PDFs split a single picture into strips, or store small decorative elements as separate images. That is how the file was built, not an error.

Tips for the best result

• For text-heavy pages you plan to print or zoom into, choose High; for photos and slides, Normal is usually indistinguishable on a screen.
• Need only one or two pages as images? Use Split PDF to take those pages out first, then convert the smaller file.
• Unsure about resolution? Our guide to DPI for screen and print explains the numbers in plain language.

Private by design

Pages are rendered with PDF.js, the same open-source engine Firefox uses to display PDFs, running inside your browser tab. The images are created on your device and saved straight to your downloads, so no page of your document is ever sent to a server. Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked in a PDF reader before they can be converted.