Turn a PDF into JPG or PNG images.
This free PDF to JPG converter renders every page of your PDF as a sharp JPG, or a lossless PNG when text needs to stay crisp. Download a single image straight away, or all of them together as one zip file. No uploads, no sign-up.
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Turn every page of a PDF into a JPG or PNG image.
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- Price
- Free. No sign-up, no watermark.
- Formats
- JPG (smaller) or PNG (lossless, crisp text).
- Quality
- Standard about 150 DPI or High about 220 DPI.
- Output
- One image, or a .zip with every page.
- Works on
- Scanned and typed PDFs alike. One PDF at a time.
- Privacy
- Your file is processed in your browser and never uploaded.
How to convert PDF pages to JPG images
Each page is drawn exactly as it looks and saved as a JPG or PNG at the quality you choose. A one-page PDF gives you a single image; a longer one arrives as a zip, with the images numbered by page.
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Add your PDF
Drop in the file you want to convert, then pick JPG or PNG and an image quality.
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Each page is rendered as a JPG
Your pages are drawn to a canvas and saved as images, entirely on your device.
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Download your images
One page downloads as a single JPG; several pages come together as one zip file.
Tips for useful JPGs from a PDF
A few things worth doing before you convert, and after the images land in your downloads.
- Straighten sideways pages firstEach page becomes a picture exactly as it sits in the PDF, so a sideways scan gives you a sideways JPG. Turn those pages the right way up first with Rotate PDF, which can fix single pages as well as the whole file.
- Too big for a form? Try StandardHigh renders about twice as many pixels as Standard and saves them at a higher JPG quality, so its files are larger. If an upload form or an email rejects the images for their size, convert again at Standard before trying anything else.
- Unzip before you uploadUpload forms and chat apps want the images themselves, not the zip. Extract it first: double-click it on a Mac, or right-click it and choose Extract All on Windows. The images are named by page number, with leading zeros on longer documents, so they stay in order in any folder.
- Keep the PDF as your master copyIn a JPG the words are part of the picture, so they can’t be searched, copied or corrected. Keep the original PDF alongside the images, and if you need to change the wording, turn the PDF into an editable document with PDF to Word.
Like every Altto tool, this runs on your device — nothing you add is uploaded. How Altto works
is roughly what the Standard setting renders at: about 1,240 × 1,750 pixels for an A4 page. That’s sharp enough to read a whole page on a laptop or phone, and light enough to post or email.
Turning a PDF into JPGs: other ways, and what to know
Ways to do this without Altto too, on Windows, Mac and phones, and the things that trip people up.
Why turn a PDF into a JPG?
A PDF is the right format for a document, but plenty of places only want a picture. The usual reasons people convert:
- Social media and messaging. Instagram, and most chat apps, show an image instantly; a PDF becomes an attachment people have to open.
- Slides and documents. Dropping a page of a report or a chart into PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides is easiest as an image.
- Websites and listings. A menu, a flyer or a floor plan displays on a web page or marketplace listing as a JPG, not a PDF.
- Upload forms that only accept images. Some application and ID-check forms ask for JPG or PNG, even when what you have is a PDF.
Standard or High: which quality do you need?
A PDF page doesn’t have a fixed number of pixels — it’s a description of a page that can be drawn at any size. So converting it to an image means choosing a resolution, measured in DPI (dots per inch): how many pixels to use for each inch of the page.
For an A4 page, that works out roughly like this:
| Setting | Approx. resolution | Image size (A4) | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | ~150 DPI | about 1,240 × 1,754 pixels | Viewing on screen, social posts, slides, email, web pages |
| High | ~220 DPI | about 1,820 × 2,570 pixels | Printing, zooming in on small text, detailed diagrams |
Standard is the right choice most of the time: it’s enough detail to read a full page comfortably on a laptop or phone, and the files stay small enough to post or email. Choose High when someone will print the image or needs to zoom into fine print, like a scanned receipt or a technical drawing. The trade-off is file size — a High image has roughly twice as many pixels as a Standard one.
JPG or PNG for PDF pages?
JPG is the format almost everything accepts, and it keeps files small, especially for pages with photos or scans. Its one weakness is sharp black text on a plain white background: look very closely and you may see faint smudges around the letters, because JPG compression is designed for photos. At normal viewing size it’s rarely noticeable.
If a page is mostly text or line drawings and it has to be pin-sharp, PNG avoids those artefacts at the cost of bigger files. Converting a finished JPG to PNG later won’t remove artefacts that are already there, so it’s better to start at High quality if sharpness matters. Our guide to JPG vs PNG goes into the differences.
Other ways to convert a PDF to JPG
Mac: Preview
- Open the PDF in Preview and, if it has several pages, click the page you want in the sidebar.
- Choose File → Export.
- Set Format to JPEG, adjust the quality and resolution if you like, and click Save.
It’s free and private, but it exports one page at a time, so a 20-page document means doing it 20 times. (Automator and Shortcuts can batch it, if you’re comfortable building a workflow.)
Windows
Windows has no built-in PDF-to-image converter. The fallback is to open the PDF, zoom so the page fills the screen, and capture it with the Snipping Tool (Windows key + Shift + S). That works for one page, but the image can only be as sharp as your screen, and it’s slow for more than a couple of pages.
iPhone and Android
Phones have the same screenshot fallback, with the same limits — and a phone screen is narrow, so a full A4 page ends up small and soft. A browser-based converter gives you proper full-page images instead, and PDF to JPG runs in Safari or Chrome on your phone without an app.
Things to know before you convert
- The text becomes part of the picture. A JPG is an image, so you can’t select, copy or search the words in it any more. Keep the PDF as your master copy. If you need to edit the text, convert the PDF to Word instead.
- Scanned PDFs work fine. Each page is rendered exactly as it looks, so a scan converts just as well as a PDF made in Word.
- Only need one or two pages? Convert the whole file and keep the pages you want from the zip, or extract those pages into a smaller PDF first.
- Locked PDFs ask for their password when you convert. To keep an unlocked copy, use Unlock PDF.
- Going the other way? To turn photos back into a PDF, see how to convert JPG to PDF.
Frequently asked questions
What PDF to JPG can and can’t do. New to this? Our guide on how to convert a PDF to JPG also covers Mac Preview, Windows and phones.