How it works
From PDF to JPG, in three steps
- 01
Add your PDF
Drop a PDF in, or several. Nothing is uploaded; it opens right in your browser.
- 02
Pick pages & quality
Leave Pages empty for all of them, or type a range like 1-3, 5. Then set JPG quality and DPI.
- 03
Download JPGs
Click Convert all, then save each page on its own or every page in one .zip.
To change a PDF to JPG, drop the PDF into the box above and click Convert all. Every page turns into its own JPG with its own row in the list and a Download button the moment it's ready. When two or more pages are done, "Download all as .zip" appears and gives you the lot in one file. Several PDFs at once is fine too; they're converted one after another.
Only need some pages? Type them in the Pages box first: "2" for one page, "1-3, 7" for a few, "5-" for page 5 to the end. Leave it empty for every page. Going the other way, putting photos and screenshots into a PDF, is what our image to PDF converter is for.
Two settings shape the result. Resolution decides how many pixels each page gets: 150 DPI (the default) turns a Letter page into a 1275 by 1650 pixel JPG, fine on any screen; 300 DPI doubles both sides for print or for zooming into small text; 72 DPI makes a quick, small preview. The JPG quality slider decides how hard each page is compressed. 85% is the default and hard to tell apart from the original at normal size. Drop it to around 60% when file size matters most, or push it to 95% for a page with fine print.
Nothing is uploaded. Your browser opens the PDF with PDF.js, the same engine Firefox uses to show PDFs, and draws each page in a background worker, so the tab stays responsive even on a long document.
Convert PDF to JPG on Windows 10 and 11
Windows has no built-in way to save a PDF page as a JPG; the Photos app won't open a PDF, and a Snipping Tool screenshot only captures what fits on your screen. The easy route is this page in Edge or Chrome: drop the PDF in, click Convert all, then Download all as .zip. Right-click the downloaded .zip and choose Extract All to get the JPGs in a normal folder.
Adobe PDF to JPG, with Acrobat
Acrobat Pro can do it: open the PDF, choose Export a PDF (in older versions, Tools, Export PDF), pick Image, then JPEG, and click Export. The free Acrobat Reader can't, since exporting is a paid feature. Adobe's own online PDF to JPG tool works without Acrobat, but it uploads your file to Adobe's servers first; this page doesn't.
Canva PDF to JPG
Canva can open a PDF: upload it, open it as a design, then choose Share, Download, set File type to JPG and pick which pages you want. The catch is that Canva rebuilds the PDF as an editable design, so fonts can be swapped and layouts can shift. If the JPG has to look exactly like the PDF, convert it here instead, then upload the JPGs to Canva if you still want to edit them there.
On a Mac, iPhone or Android phone
On a Mac, open the PDF in Preview, choose File, Export, set Format to JPEG and drag the quality slider. Preview saves only the page you're on, so a 12-page PDF means 12 exports. Phones have no built-in option at all, but this page works in Safari and Chrome on mobile. On an iPhone the JPGs land in the Files app's Downloads folder; open one and use Share, Save Image to put it in Photos.
When you need this
Share pages where PDFs don't work
WhatsApp, Instagram, most chat apps and plenty of upload forms want a picture, not a document. A JPG of the page opens instantly on any phone, with no PDF viewer needed.
Small enough to email or upload
A page with photos on it can easily be several megabytes as a PNG. As a JPG at 85% it's usually a fraction of that, which matters when a form caps uploads at 1 or 2 MB.
Drop a page into slides, a site or Canva
PowerPoint, Google Slides, a website editor and Canva all take a JPG without fuss. Pull out the one page or chart you need instead of attaching the whole PDF.
Worked example
Say you've got a 16-page brochure as a PDF and want to post pages 1 and 4 on Instagram, which won't take a PDF at all.
Drop the PDF in, type "1, 4" in the Pages box and leave the settings alone: JPG at 85% quality, 150 DPI. Click Convert all and a moment later there are two rows, "brochure.pdf (page 1 of 16)" and "brochure.pdf (page 4 of 16)". Download them and you have brochure-page-01.jpg and brochure-page-04.jpg, ready for your camera roll.
Later a print shop asks for the cover at print quality. Type "1", switch to 300 DPI, nudge quality up to 95% and convert again. That JPG has four times as many pixels and is noticeably bigger, which is the right trade for print. For the whole brochure as images, clear the Pages box, convert, and use "Download all as .zip" to get all 16 pages, named in page order.
Format explainer
A PDF page is a set of drawing instructions: text in its fonts, vector lines and shapes, and any photos placed on it. To convert a PDF to JPG, those instructions are followed once at a fixed size and the result is saved as pixels. Resolution (DPI) sets how many pixels that is; JPG quality sets how much detail survives compression afterward. Both matter. A page drawn at 72 DPI stays soft no matter how high the quality, and a 300 DPI page saved at 30% quality gets blocky.
JPG and JPEG are the same format, just two spellings of the file extension; these files are saved as .jpg, which every app and phone opens. JPG compresses by throwing away detail your eye is least likely to miss, which suits photos and most document pages. Where it falls short is crisp, high-contrast edges: zoom in on small black text and you may see faint smudges around the letters. If that matters, say for a page of tiny print or a diagram you'll edit, the PDF to PNG converter saves the same pages losslessly, at the cost of bigger files.
A few honest limits. The JPG is a picture of the page, so its text can't be selected or searched any more. JPG has no transparency, so pages always come out on white. Images embedded in the PDF are redrawn at the DPI you pick rather than pulled out at their original size. And very large pages, like A0 posters, are capped at about 16.7 million pixels so they work on phones too; at 300 DPI a poster comes out nearer 100 DPI.
Frequently asked questions
Drop the PDF into the box at the top of this page and click Convert all. Each page becomes a separate JPG that you can download on its own, or all together in one ZIP. The defaults (85% quality, 150 DPI) suit most uses.
Yes. No account, no watermark, no page limit and no daily cap. Your own browser does the converting, so there's no server cost to pass on to you.
Yes. Type the page number in the Pages box before converting, or a range like 2-5, 9. Only those pages are drawn, which is much quicker than converting a long document and picking through it.
For screens, phones and social posts, keep 85% and 150 DPI. For printing, use 300 DPI and 90 to 95%. If you just need a small preview or have a strict upload limit, 72 DPI at around 60% gives the smallest files.
Usually the resolution is too low for the size you're viewing it at, so try 300 DPI first. If edges still look smudged, raise the quality slider. For pages that are mostly small text, PDF to PNG gives perfectly sharp letters, though the files are bigger.
Open this page in Edge or Chrome, drop the PDF in and click Convert all. Windows 10 has no built-in PDF to JPG export, and nothing needs installing here; it all runs in the browser tab.
Not yet. You'll see a message saying the PDF is password protected. Open it in a PDF reader, save a copy without the password, then convert that copy.
No. The PDF is opened and every page is drawn inside your browser tab, and nothing is sent to a server. Close the tab and it's gone.
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