PDF to JPG in high quality

What PDF to JPG does

PDF to JPG turns the pages of a PDF into pictures. Each page becomes its own picture file, a JPG or a PNG, that looks just like the page: the same words, photos, colours and drawings, on a white background like paper.

You choose three things: how sharp the pictures are, which pages to convert, and JPG or PNG. The pages are drawn by pdf.js, the PDF reader built into Firefox, inside your own browser. Your PDF is never uploaded.

• Any kind of PDF: documents, scans, slides, forms and maps, with sideways or cropped pages too. Each picture shows its page the way a PDF reader shows it.
• Exact sizes: an A4 page at Normal sharpness always becomes 1240 × 1754 pixels, and each file carries its ppi, so it prints at the page's real size.
• Several PDFs at once, with every picture in one ZIP file, or a single picture with its own Download button.
• Locked PDFs too, if you know the password. You type it on the PDF's card, and it stays on your device.

When you need pages as pictures

PDFs are made for documents, but many places only take pictures. These are the most common reasons to convert:

• Upload forms that ask for JPG. Job, exam, college and government websites often want a certificate, marksheet or ID card as a JPG file, sometimes under a size limit like 100 KB. See the tips for small files.
• WhatsApp and social media. A picture shows straight away in a chat, while a PDF has to be downloaded and opened first. A WhatsApp status or an Instagram post can be a picture, but not a PDF.
• Slides and documents. A page as a picture drops into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word or Canva like any photo, for example a chart from a report.
• Previews for websites. A small picture of a cover page makes a preview for a website, an online shop, a blog post or an email.
• Editing and cropping. Photo editors can't open PDFs, but they can open a picture of a page. You can crop out a photo, a table or your signature, or mark something up.

Need the opposite, photos or scans into a PDF? Use our JPG to PDF tool.

Step by step

Here is the whole way, on a phone or a computer:

1. Add your PDF. Tap Choose PDF files, or drop PDFs onto the page. Each PDF gets a card with a picture of its first page, its number of pages and its size.
2. Pick the sharpness. Normal suits most uses. The line under the choices tells you how many pixels a page of your PDF will become.
3. Pick JPG or PNG. JPG makes smaller files, and PNG keeps every pixel.
4. Pick the pages. Leave All pages, or tap Choose pages and type the ones you want, like 1-3, 5.
5. Press Convert. The button says how many pages it will convert. While it works, you can see how far it has got, like Page 3 of 12, and you can press Stop at any time: the pictures made so far are kept.
6. Download. One page gives one picture with a Download button. Several pages give a Download all (ZIP) button, plus a small preview of each picture with its own Download button.

If you change the sharpness, the format, the pages or the PDFs afterwards, the pictures are cleared and the Convert button comes back, so what you download always matches what you chose.

Choosing the sharpness

Sharpness is counted in ppi, pixels per inch: the number of picture dots across each inch of the page. More ppi gives a sharper picture with more pixels, and a bigger file. An A4 page is 8.27 inches wide, so at 150 ppi it becomes 1240 pixels wide.

• Normal is right for most things. Pages look sharp on phones and computer screens, and text stays clear when you zoom in a little. It suits WhatsApp, slides and most upload forms.
• High is for printing, for pages with small print such as forms, maps and drawings, and for cropping out a part that should stay sharp. It has four times the pixels of Normal, and in our tests its files were 2.4 to 4.3 times bigger.
• Small makes the smallest files, for previews, chats and websites with a tight size limit. Small print can be hard to read.

A scan can't get sharper than it was scanned. If your PDF is a scan or a photo, its pictures only have the detail the scanner or camera caught. Choosing more ppi than that makes bigger pictures, not sharper ones, so Normal is usually enough for scans.

Very big pages. One picture can have up to 40 million pixels, or 16 million on iPhone and iPad, whose browsers can't draw bigger pictures. That fits an A2 poster at High on a computer. A bigger page, like an A1 poster or a large drawing, is drawn at a lower ppi so that it fits: an A1 page at High comes out at 227 ppi on a computer and 144 ppi on an iPhone. The line under the choices and the result both tell you when this happens.

JPG or PNG?

Choose JPG for almost everything. JPG files are small, and every phone, computer, website and app opens them. We save JPGs at quality 90 out of 100. In our tests on seven kinds of page, from text to photos and scans, that made files 27% smaller than quality 95, and letters stayed as crisp as in a PNG. Lower settings, like 75 or 80, left a faint haze around letters.

Choose PNG when you will edit the pictures further, when a page is mostly text or lines and you want every pixel exact, or when a website asks for PNG. PNG keeps every pixel just as it was drawn, but the files can be much bigger:

For pages of text, PNG was 9% to 28% bigger than JPG, so keeping every pixel costs little. For the scan, PNG was seven times bigger. Neither format gets see-through parts here: every page is drawn on white, like paper.

Converting only some pages

Tap Choose pages and type the page numbers you want. You can mix single pages and ranges, with commas or spaces between them:

• 1-3, 5 gives pages 1, 2, 3 and 5.
• 7- gives page 7 to the last page.
• 4 gives page 4 only: one picture with its own Download button, and no ZIP.

A line under the box says in words which pages you'll get, and the Convert button counts them, so you can check before you start. Pictures always come in page order, one for each page, in whatever order you typed the numbers.

If you added several PDFs, the same pages are taken from each one. A page past the end of a PDF is skipped, and the result says so: with a 4-page PDF, "2, 9" gives page 2 and a note that page 9 was skipped. If none of your pages are in your PDF, the line under the box tells you how many pages it has.

Real results

We converted these files in Chrome on our test computer. The time is the one the page showed when it finished, from pressing Convert to the last picture. Your device may be faster or slower, and phones usually take longer.

• 1.4 sfor our 4-page sample scan at Normal
• 400pages from one 454.8 MB scan, in one go
• 27%smaller JPGs than quality 95, with crisp text
• 0 bytessent to any server

Scans take the longest, because each page is a big photo that has to be unpacked before it can be drawn. Pages of text are quicker. The time grows with the number of pages, so for a long PDF, convert only the pages you need.

Long PDFs work because pages are drawn one at a time, and only the finished picture files are kept. The 400-page scan above went through in one go, and its 400 pictures came in one ZIP file of 152.3 MB.

File names and ZIP files

Each picture is named after its PDF and its page. A PDF called marksheet.pdf gives marksheet-page-1.jpg, marksheet-page-2.jpg and so on.

When a PDF has 10 pages or more, the page numbers get zeros in front, like report-page-01.jpg, or report-page-001.jpg from 100 pages. That keeps the pictures in page order when your phone or computer sorts them by name.

Several pictures come in one ZIP file named after the PDF, like marksheet-jpg.zip, or marksheet-png.zip for PNGs. With several PDFs, it is called pdf-to-jpg-3-files.zip for 3 PDFs (pdf-to-png-3-files.zip for PNGs), and each picture inside keeps its own PDF's name, so you can tell them apart. JPG and PNG files are already compressed, so the ZIP stores them as they are: it is about as big as the pictures together.

To open a ZIP file:

• Android: open your Files app (Files by Google, or My Files on Samsung phones), tap the ZIP file, then tap Extract.
• iPhone and iPad: in the Files app, tap the ZIP file. A folder with the pictures appears next to it.
• Windows: right-click the ZIP file and choose Extract All. Mac: double-click it.

Only need one or two pictures on a phone? Skip the ZIP and use the Download button under each picture.

PDF to JPG on Android, iPhone, Windows and Mac

The converter runs in your web browser, so there is nothing to install: no app, no extension and no account.

• Android

  Open this page in Chrome, Samsung Internet or another up-to-date browser and tap Choose PDF files. Pictures and ZIP files go to your Downloads folder, where your gallery and Files apps can find them.

• iPhone and iPad

  Open this page in Safari or Chrome and pick a PDF from the Files app. Downloads usually go to Downloads in the Files app. To add a picture to Photos, open it there, tap Share, then Save Image.

• Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook

  Use Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Drop PDFs onto the page, or choose them. The pictures go to your Downloads folder.

Long PDFs on a phone. Phones have less memory than computers, so the converter draws one page at a time and keeps only the finished picture files. Keep the page open with the screen on until it finishes, because browsers slow down or pause pages you aren't looking at. If a long PDF is slow, convert it in parts, like 1-50 and then 51-100.

Private by design

Many online converters work by uploading. Your PDF goes to their server, the pages are turned into pictures there, and you download the pictures back. For that time your document sits on a computer you don't control, and you have to trust that it is deleted afterwards.

NoUploadPDF works the other way round. The pages are drawn by pdf.js inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. Your PDF and its pictures never leave your device, and the page is not allowed to send data to any other website. That matters for papers like Aadhaar and PAN cards, bank statements and certificates.

Passwords stay on your device too. When a PDF is locked, you type its password on the PDF's own card, and it is used only to open the file here.

You can check all this yourself: open your browser's network panel while converting, and you'll see that nothing is uploaded. Our privacy policy has the details.

When something goes wrong

• "Can't be opened: it may be damaged, or not a PDF." The file may be broken, cut short while downloading, or another kind of file with a .pdf name. Try opening it in a PDF reader. If that works, save or print it as a new PDF there, and add the new copy.
• It asks for a password. The PDF is locked. Type the password on its card and press Open. Until then it is left out, and your other PDFs are converted without it.
• A page is missing from the result. If a page can't be drawn, it is left out and the result says which one. The other pages are still converted.
• Text looks soft. Choose High and convert again. If the PDF is a scan, the pictures can only be as sharp as the scan.
• It's slow. Choose Normal instead of High, convert only the pages you need, and keep the page open in front. Scans take longer than pages of text.
• A picture is sideways. The page is sideways in the PDF too: each picture shows its page the way the PDF shows it. Turn the picture in your gallery or photo editor.
• The download didn't show up. Look in your Downloads folder, or in Downloads in the Files app on an iPhone. If it isn't there, press the Download button again: your pictures stay ready until you change something or leave the page.

Tips for the best pictures

1. For a JPG under a size limit, like 100 KB on a form, choose Small, keep JPG and convert only the page you need. Each picture in the result shows its size, so you can check before you upload. In our tests, the pages of our sample scan came out at 60 to 70 KB each at Small, and 396 to 422 KB each at Normal.
2. To crop out part of a page, like a photo, a table or your signature, convert at High, then crop the picture in your gallery or photo editor. The part you keep stays sharp.
3. For WhatsApp, Normal is plenty. To send a picture without WhatsApp making it smaller, send it as a document instead of a photo.
4. For printing, choose High. If you only need paper copies, you can also print the PDF itself.
5. To turn pictures back into a PDF, for example after editing a page, use our JPG to PDF tool. It puts JPGs into a PDF without compressing them again.
6. If you only need a smaller PDF, you don't need pictures. Our PDF compressor makes PDFs smaller and keeps text sharp, and Resize PDF makes a PDF fit a limit like 100 KB.
7. Keep your PDF. A picture keeps how the text looks, not the text itself, so keep the original for anything you may need to search or copy later.

Pixels, ppi and other terms, explained

Pixel

One dot of a picture. A picture 1240 pixels wide and 1754 tall has about 2.2 million of them.

PPI (pixels per inch)

How many pixels cover one inch of the page. More ppi means a sharper picture and a bigger file.

DPI (dots per inch)

The same idea for printers and scanners. If a form asks for a page at 300 dpi, choose High, which is 300 ppi.

Megapixel

A million pixels. One picture here can have up to 40 megapixels, or 16 on iPhone and iPad.

JPG or JPEG

The most common picture format: small files, with a slight loss of detail that is hard to see at the quality we use.

PNG

A picture format with no loss: every pixel is kept exactly, so files are bigger.

ZIP

One file that holds many files. Your phone or computer can open it and take the pictures out.

Thumbnail

A small preview of a picture or a page, like the previews under your result.

Limits

• One picture can have up to 40 million pixels, or 16 million on iPhone and iPad. Bigger pages are drawn at a lower ppi to fit, and the result says so.
• A picture keeps how the text looks, not the text itself, so it can't be searched or copied the way a PDF's text can.
• Pages are always drawn on white, so see-through parts of a page are not kept, even in PNG.
• Links and form fields don't work in a picture. It shows only how the page looks.
• A ZIP file can hold up to 4 GB. If your pictures are bigger than that together, the result asks you to download them one by one.
• Long PDFs take time, especially scans at High: our 42-page scan took 20.0 s at High. Keep the page open until it finishes.
• A PDF that can't be opened, or a page that can't be drawn, is left out with a note. Everything else is still converted.