How to use PDF to JPG
Export every page of a PDF as a JPG image, ready to embed in slide decks, social posts, or anywhere a PDF won't render directly. Pick the DPI based on whether the output is for web or print, and download single images directly or multi-page exports as a ZIP. Renders locally with pdfjs — nothing uploaded.
Good for
- •Embedding individual pages into a PowerPoint or Keynote slide
- •Sharing a single page on social where PDFs can't preview
- •Producing thumbnails for a document gallery
- •Sending a page over a chat app that strips PDFs
- •Creating preview images for a website's document library
Not good for
- •Keeping text selectable — JPGs are images, not text
- •Print-quality output of vector graphics (use the original PDF instead)
- •Watermarking PDFs (use the PDF Editor)
- •Archiving — JPG export is lossy by design
Walkthrough
Step by step
- 01
Drop the PDF
Tools menu → PDF to JPG. Page count + first-page preview show immediately so you can sanity-check before exporting.
- 02
Pick the resolution
Standard (150 DPI, web-friendly), High (300 DPI, print-ready), or Custom (set your own DPI). Each shows the estimated total output file size before committing.
- 03
Select pages (optional)
By default, every page exports. Click thumbnails to deselect pages you don't need. Range syntax in the input box also works ('1-5, 10').
- 04
Convert
Each page renders to a canvas at the chosen DPI and gets encoded as JPG at 92% quality. Progress shows per-page; a 20-page PDF at 150 DPI takes ~5 seconds.
- 05
Preview & re-pick
First image opens in a preview viewer; flip through to check quality. Re-run at higher DPI if text looks fuzzy.
- 06
Download
Single page → direct download. Multiple pages → packaged as a ZIP with one file per page (page-001.jpg, page-002.jpg, …).
Tips
- •Need PNGs instead? The output toggle is in Settings. JPG is the default because it's much smaller for typical text-on-white pages.
- •The naming pattern is page-001.jpg, page-002.jpg, etc. — preserves order in any file manager.
- •For print, use 300 DPI minimum. 150 DPI is for screen-only — text gets visibly soft when printed.
- •Hosting these on a website? Run them through an image optimiser (Squoosh, TinyJPG) after — we use 92% quality which is visually lossless but not size-optimised.
- •Just need the first page as a thumbnail? Deselect the rest before converting to skip a useless ZIP step.
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