PDF to JPG
Convert each page of a PDF into a JPG image.
How to use the PDF to JPG
- Select the PDF to convert.
- Pick an image quality (dpi).
- Click Convert to JPG and download the images as a ZIP.
About the PDF to JPG
This tool renders each page of your PDF into a JPG with Ghostscript — it rasterises the page exactly as a viewer would draw it, text, vectors and all, at the resolution you pick. You can choose 72, 150 or 300 dpi, and anything outside that band is clamped. JPG quality is fixed at 88, a deliberately high setting where compression artefacts are hard to spot, and anti-aliasing is applied to text and graphics so type stays smooth rather than jagged.
Use it when a page needs to become a picture: dropping a diagram into a slide deck, posting a page to social media, or feeding a system that only accepts images. For screenshots, line art or anything with crisp text edges, PDF to PNG is the better output because it is lossless. Going the other direction is JPG to PDF.
The real limitation is that rasterising is one-way: the output is pixels, so text is no longer text and cannot be selected, searched or edited, and there is no OCR on this server to put it back. Higher dpi means sharper images and much larger files. A single-page PDF returns one JPG; multi-page PDFs come back as a ZIP with one image per page. Your file is uploaded, processed under a random name in a folder that is not web-accessible, and deleted when the request ends. One file, 20 MB maximum.
Frequently asked questions
Which dpi should I pick?
150 is right for screens and email. Use 300 if the image will be printed or zoomed into closely, and 72 only when file size matters more than sharpness.
Can I still select the text in the images?
No. Every page becomes a flat picture, and there is no OCR on this server, so text cannot be recovered from the output.
Do I get one file or a ZIP?
One JPG if the PDF has a single page; a ZIP containing page-001.jpg, page-002.jpg and so on for multi-page documents.
JPG or PNG for my pages?
JPG is smaller and fine for photo-heavy pages. PNG is lossless and keeps text and diagram edges crisper — use PDF to PNG for those.
Why is my 300 dpi ZIP so large?
Doubling the dpi roughly quadruples the pixel count of every page. A long document at 300 dpi produces very big images; stay at 150 unless you need print resolution.