How to Save PDF Pages as JPG or PNG (Resolution and Pixel Sizes)

Sometimes you need a PDF page as a picture: to put in a presentation, post on a website, send in a chat app, or hand to a tool that only accepts images. Exporting a page is easy. Choosing the right resolution is the part that decides whether the image is crisp, blurry or enormous.

How the conversion works

The PDF to JPG tool draws every page of your PDF in your browser as a real image. Text, pictures and fonts are rendered as they appear in the PDF, including pages with Chinese, Japanese or Korean text. You choose JPG or PNG, a resolution from 72 to 300 dpi, the JPG quality, and which pages to convert. Download pages one by one or all together as a ZIP. The PDF is not uploaded.

Resolution and pixel size

A PDF page has a physical size, not a pixel size. Resolution, in dots per inch (dpi), converts it. An A4 page is about 8.27 × 11.69 inches and a US Letter page is 8.5 × 11 inches, so:

The tool's choices are 72 dpi (screen, smallest), 150 dpi (good quality), 200 dpi (high quality) and 300 dpi (print). Pixel count grows with the square of the resolution, so a 300 dpi image has four times as many pixels as a 150 dpi one and its file is much larger.

JPG or PNG

• JPG is lossy and small. It suits pages with photographs or smooth colour, and you can set the quality to trade size for sharpness.
• PNG is lossless and larger. It suits pages with sharp text, line drawings and flat colour, where JPG can leave faint blur around letters.

For a text-heavy page, PNG at 150 dpi often looks cleaner than a JPG of the same size. For a photo spread, JPG is the sensible choice. If you need to switch format afterwards, PNG to JPG and the Image Converter do it in batches.

Selecting pages

You do not have to convert the whole file. Enter the pages you want. For a long PDF at a high resolution, converting a range is also kinder to your device: very large pages are capped at 8,000 pixels on the longest side, and long documents at a high resolution can be slow or run out of memory in a browser.

Common uses

• Slides and documents. Drop a page into a presentation as a picture.
• Social posts and chats. Share one page without sending the whole file.
• Back to a PDF. Edit the images, then rebuild a PDF with JPG to PDF.
• OCR. Send the images to OCR Image to Text to read scanned pages.
• Smaller files. If a page is mostly a photo, an image is sometimes smaller than the PDF it came from.

What you lose

The output is an image, so text is no longer selectable or searchable. If you only need the words, PDF to Text is the better tool. Files over 200 MB are not accepted.

Checklist

1. Decide where the image will be used: screen, web or print.
2. Choose 72, 150, 200 or 300 dpi to match, and JPG or PNG to match the content.
3. Convert only the pages you need.
4. Open one result at full size and check the smallest text.
5. Shrink the files further with the Image Compressor if you need to.