What resolution should I use?

150 dpi for anything viewed on a screen, 300 for print. Below 100 the body text becomes hard to read, which is easy to miss when you are checking a thumbnail.

Can the text still be selected?

No. The page is rendered as a picture, so the text becomes pixels — not selectable, not searchable, and invisible to a screen reader. That is the main cost of the conversion.

Does this stop people copying my document?

No. Anyone can read text off an image, and OCR does it automatically in seconds. Converting to images inconveniences legitimate readers and stops nobody.

PNG for pages of text or diagrams, since JPEG's compression blurs the sharp edges letterforms depend on. JPEG for pages that are mostly photographs, where it is smaller and the artefacts do not show.

PDF to JPG

Save every page as an image, at the resolution you pick.

Everything runs inside your browser. Your files never leave your device.

Drop your file here

.pdf · they stay on this device

Ask about PDF to JPG

Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.

The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong. The tool itself is not guessing: it runs deterministic code on your device.

About the PDF to JPG

Turning PDF pages into images is what you need when the destination cannot take a PDF: a slide, a social post, a chat message, a website, a document editor that will not embed one.

This renders each page and produces an image of it, at a resolution you choose.

Resolution decides whether the output is worth having. The default of 150 dots per inch is right for viewing on a screen. Print wants 300, which doubles the pixels in each dimension and quadruples the file size. Anything below about 100 makes body text hard to read, which is easy to miss when checking a thumbnail and obvious to whoever receives it.

Rendering is the important word. The page is drawn as it appears, so the output is a picture. The text becomes pixels: no longer selectable, no longer searchable, no longer accessible to a screen reader. That is a real loss and it is exactly why converting a PDF to images to email it is usually the wrong instinct — the recipient gets something they cannot search or copy from.

The right reason to do it is that the destination genuinely requires an image. The wrong reason is to prevent copying, which it does not achieve: anyone can read the text off the image, and optical character recognition does it automatically.

JPEG suits pages that are mostly photographs. PNG suits pages that are mostly text or diagrams, because JPEG's compression smears exactly the sharp edges that letterforms are made of — which is why a converted text page looks fuzzy around the type when saved as JPEG.

How to use it

1Drop in the PDF.
2Set the resolution: 150 dpi for screen use, 300 for print.
3Choose PNG for pages that are mostly text or diagrams, JPEG for pages that are mostly photographs.
4Download the images, individually or as a zip for a long document.

Questions

What resolution should I use?: 150 dpi for anything viewed on a screen, 300 for print. Below 100 the body text becomes hard to read, which is easy to miss when you are checking a thumbnail.
Can the text still be selected?: No. The page is rendered as a picture, so the text becomes pixels — not selectable, not searchable, and invisible to a screen reader. That is the main cost of the conversion.
Does this stop people copying my document?: No. Anyone can read text off an image, and OCR does it automatically in seconds. Converting to images inconveniences legitimate readers and stops nobody.
JPEG or PNG?: PNG for pages of text or diagrams, since JPEG's compression blurs the sharp edges letterforms depend on. JPEG for pages that are mostly photographs, where it is smaller and the artefacts do not show.