Quick answer
For most screens choose 150 dpi: an A4 page becomes 1241 × 1754 pixels. Use 72 dpi for small previews and the smallest files, 200 dpi for reading small print, and 300 dpi when the image will be printed.
| Resolution | A4 in pixels | US Letter in pixels | Use it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72 dpi | 595 × 842 | 612 × 792 | screen, smallest |
| 150 dpi | 1241 × 1754 | 1275 × 1650 | good quality |
| 200 dpi | 1654 × 2338 | 1700 × 2200 | high quality |
| 300 dpi | 2481 × 3507 | 2550 × 3300 |
These figures are computed with the same formulas as the PDF to JPG above. Change the inputs in the tool to see your own result.
PDF to JPG draws every page of a PDF as a real image and lets you download pages one by one or all together as a ZIP. Choose JPG or PNG, a resolution from 72 to 300 dpi, the JPG quality and which pages to convert. Text, images and fonts are rendered exactly as they appear in the PDF, including PDFs with Chinese, Japanese or Korean text. It runs in your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded.
Made for everyone. Typical uses:
A real-estate agent has a 12-page property brochure as a PDF but needs just the floor-plan page (page 7) as an image to post on a listing site. They upload the PDF, convert it, and download page 7 as a standalone JPG that can be inserted directly into the listing without sharing the whole brochure file.
Very large pages are capped at 8,000 pixels on the longest side, and very long PDFs at high resolution can be slow or run out of memory in a browser, so convert a page range instead. The output is an image, so text is no longer selectable; use PDF to Text if you need the words. Files over 200 MB are refused.
Accuracy: Files are processed with established open-source libraries and tested with real PDFs. Open the result and check it before you send or publish it.
Expert Tip
If you need the text itself rather than a picture of the page, use PDF to Text instead — PDF to JPG is for when the page needs to look exactly as it does, not for extracting the words.
A PDF page is a set of instructions for drawing text, shapes and images at any size. A JPG or PNG is a fixed grid of pixels. Converting turns the drawing instructions into a picture, which is exactly what you need when a website, presentation or chat app accepts images but not PDFs, or when you want to post one page on social media or paste it into a slide.
Typical cases are sharing a single page of a brochure, pulling a chart out of a report, using a scanned certificate as an image attachment, turning a menu or flyer into a picture for a messaging group, and creating thumbnails or previews for documents.
The resolution setting decides how many pixels the finished image has. An A4 page at 72 dpi is about 595 by 842 pixels, which is fine for a small preview; at 150 dpi it is about 1,240 by 1,754 pixels, a good general choice; at 200 dpi about 1,654 by 2,339; and at 300 dpi about 2,480 by 3,508, the size used for printing.
Higher resolution means a sharper picture and a larger file. Pick the lowest resolution that stays readable in its final use. A page shown on a phone screen does not need 300 dpi, while a page you plan to print at full size does. The tool limits the longest side to 8,000 pixels so very large pages do not exhaust your browser memory.
Both formats are offered because they are good at different things. Photographs and scans look natural as JPG and are much smaller. Pages made mostly of text, diagrams and flat colours look crisper as PNG, because PNG does not blur the edges of letters the way heavy JPG compression can, but PNG files are larger.
Leave the page field blank to convert every page, or enter pages such as 1-3, 5 to convert only those. When several pages are converted you can download them one by one or all together as a ZIP file with sensible names such as report-page-01.jpg. If you only need one page as a separate document rather than a picture, Split PDF is the better tool.
The reverse direction is just as common. To put pictures back into a PDF, use JPG to PDF, which lets you reorder the images and choose the page size.
Pages are drawn with the same engine that powers a browser PDF viewer, using bundled font and character-map data, so text in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, embedded fonts and non-standard encodings render the way they do on screen. If a PDF needs a password to open, the tool asks for it and uses it only in your browser.
A converted page is a picture. If you need the text itself, use PDF to Word, or, for a scanned page that contains no real text, run the picture through OCR - Image to Text.
Convert at the resolution you will actually use, then shrink further only if needed with the Image Compressor. If you want an exact size for a profile picture or a thumbnail, finish with the Image Resizer. To understand which output format suits your situation, the guide to JPG, PNG and WebP explains the differences.
Nothing is uploaded. Each page is drawn in your browser and the images exist only in your tab until you save them, which makes the tool safe for private documents such as contracts and identity papers.
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