Convert PDF to JPG
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Turning a PDF into pictures is what you do when the document has to go somewhere that will not take a PDF: a listing, a social post, a chat message, a slide, a form that wants images. Each page becomes its own JPG at a resolution you choose.
The choice of resolution is the only decision that matters here and it is worth a moment. 144 DPI produces a page that reads comfortably on a screen and stays a sensible size. 216 is for printing or for pages somebody will zoom into, and produces files roughly twice as heavy. Going higher rarely helps: the PDF's own images have a fixed resolution, and rendering past it enlarges them rather than revealing anything.
JPG because these are pages, and pages are mostly white with black text on them, which JPG handles adequately and compresses well. If the pages are diagrams, screenshots or anything with fine lines, PDF to PNG is sharper, because JPG puts its errors exactly where the contrast is highest and text is nothing but high contrast.
How to convert PDF to JPG
- Drop your PDF files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Give a page range if you only want part of the file, or leave it blank for all of it.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes
Detail is discarded
PDF keeps every pixel exactly and JPG does not, so the encoder throws away the fine detail your eye is worst at noticing. At high quality this is invisible.
PDF and JPG side by side
| JPG | ||
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1993, from Adobe, opened as a standard in 2008 | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Where it opens | Every device made in the last twenty years, identically | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote |
| Best at | Sending a document that must look the same everywhere, including printed | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict |
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Questions about PDF to JPG
What do I get back for a multi-page PDF?
One JPG per page. A single page comes back as one image; several arrive as a zip, because browsers throttle a burst of downloads triggered by one click and you would otherwise lose most of them silently. If you only want part of the document, give a page range before converting, in the form 1-3, 7, 9- , and only those pages are rendered.
Can I still search the text afterwards?
No, and that is the trade you are making. Every page becomes a flat picture of itself, so words that were selectable text in the PDF are now shapes made of pixels. Nothing can search them without OCR, which this does not do. If you want the words rather than the look of the page, <a href="/pdf-to-text">PDF to text</a> or <a href="/pdf-to-word">PDF to Word</a> extracts them directly, and does it properly because the text was really in there.
Which DPI should I pick?
Use 144 for anything that will be looked at on a screen; it is legible, and a page comes out around a couple of hundred kilobytes. Use 216 when the page will be printed or zoomed into, and accept files roughly twice the size. Higher than that is usually wasted: if the PDF contains a scan made at 200 DPI, rendering it at 600 does not create detail that was never captured, it just enlarges what is there.
Why do the pages look slightly soft?
Two possible reasons. If the PDF is itself a scan, you are seeing the resolution it was scanned at, and nothing here can improve on it. If the PDF holds real text, try a higher DPI, or switch to PNG: JPG compresses in blocks and puts its errors where contrast is highest, which is precisely the edge of every letter, so text picks up a faint grey halo that PNG does not produce.