How to convert a PDF to JPG on this page
- Add one PDF. Drop it on the box or click to browse. The row that appears confirms the file name, its size and how many pages it holds, which is also how many images you will get.
- Choose an image quality. The slider has three stops: Smallest, Balanced and High quality. Balanced is the starting point and the line underneath describes each one.
- Convert. The progress label counts through the pages, so a long document tells you how far along it is.
- Download. The result line shows how many JPGs were produced and their total size.
Every page is converted; there is no page picker. The rendering happens inside this page on your own device, so the document is never uploaded to a server.
Resolution, and what the quality slider does
Each setting caps how wide a page is drawn: roughly 1000 pixels on Smallest, 1400 on Balanced and 2000 on High quality. On a Letter or A4 page that is about 120, 165 and 235 dots per inch. Height follows the page's own proportions, so a portrait page comes out taller than it is wide and a landscape page comes out wider than it is tall.
The slider also sets how hard the JPEG encoder squeezes the image, from firm on Smallest through moderate on Balanced to light on High quality. Pages smaller than the target width are not enlarged more than three times, so a tiny page will not be blown up into a soft, meaningless poster.
Two things cost you detail on the way out, and it is worth knowing which is which. First, everything is rasterized: crisp vector text and logos become a grid of pixels, and once that is done the sharpness of the original is gone for good. Second, JPEG is a lossy format, so fine, high-contrast edges such as small black text on white can pick up a faint softness or halo, most visibly at the Smallest setting. JPEG also cannot store transparency, so each page is laid down on a solid white background before it is encoded.
What you get, and how it is named
One JPG per page, named after your document with the page number appended, as in report-page-1.jpg and report-page-2.jpg. A single-page PDF downloads as that one JPG file. Two pages or more arrive together inside a single ZIP named after the document, because dozens of separate downloads would be worse than one. The ZIP stores the images rather than squeezing them further, since JPEGs are already compressed, so it opens instantly on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android without extra software.
The page numbers are not padded with zeros, so a file manager sorting names alphabetically will place page-10 straight after page-1. Sorting by date created, or renaming in bulk, puts long documents back in reading order.
JPG is the only output format offered here, which is the right choice for pages of text and photographs. If you specifically need lossless images or transparency, a JPG cannot give you either, and a screenshot tool or a desktop PDF application will serve you better.
Long documents are worth thinking about before you start. Every page is drawn and encoded one after another, and all the finished images are held in memory until they are packaged for download, so a hundred-page document at High quality asks a lot of a phone. If a big job struggles, drop to Balanced or Smallest, or split the document into chunks first and convert each one.
When JPG is the right call, and when it is not
Reach for images when the page needs to behave like a picture:
- Dropping a page into a slide deck, a document or the body of an email rather than attaching a file.
- Posting to a site or app that shows images inline but treats a PDF as an anonymous attachment.
- Filling in an upload form that only accepts JPG or PNG.
- Producing a thumbnail or a preview of a cover page.
- Sending one page to someone whose phone makes PDFs awkward to open.
Stay with the PDF when the document has to keep working as a document. Text stops being text the moment it becomes an image, so nothing in a JPG can be searched, selected, copied or read aloud by assistive software. Printing is better from the PDF too, since the original page is usually far more detailed than even the High quality render. And a multi-page document held together as one file is simply easier to handle than a folder of loose images.
If your real goal is a smaller file rather than pictures, use Compress PDF, which keeps everything as a single document. If you only want images of certain pages, extract those pages first and convert the short version. And if you convert to JPG and later rebuild a PDF with Images to PDF, remember that the round trip is lossy in one direction only: the text will not come back.
Frequently asked questions
What resolution are the exported images?
Pages are drawn at roughly 1000, 1400 or 2000 pixels wide depending on the setting you choose, which works out at about 120, 165 or 235 dots per inch on a Letter or A4 page. The height follows the shape of each page.
Can I convert only certain pages?
Not directly. Every page in the document is converted. To get images of just a few pages, pull them out with Split PDF first and then convert the shorter file.
Why did my download arrive as a ZIP?
Because the document had more than one page. Every image is bundled into a single ZIP so you get one download instead of dozens. A one-page PDF skips the ZIP and downloads as a plain JPG file.
Will the text in the images still be searchable?
No. A JPG is a picture, so the words become pixels and cannot be searched, selected or copied. Keep the original PDF if you need working text.
Going the other way, from photos or screenshots to a document, is Images to PDF. If a page comes out sideways because the document was stored that way, straighten it first with Rotate PDF and then convert, since the images are drawn exactly as the pages are oriented in the file. There is no page limit and no watermark on any of it.