Turn PDF pages into sharp PNG images with no compression artefacts, ideal for text, diagrams and screenshots. Choose the resolution and pages, then download them as a ZIP.
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When a PDF page has to become an image, for a slide, a wiki, a design mock-up or a chat message, the format matters. JPG is small but blurs the edges of letters and thin lines. PNG is lossless: every pixel is stored exactly, so text, equations, charts, tables and screenshots stay crisp no matter how closely you look.
This free converter renders each PDF page in your browser and saves it as a PNG at 72, 150, 300 or 600 DPI. Convert every page or just a range, preview the results and download single images or a ZIP. The PDF is never uploaded. In our tests a 15-page research paper became 15 PNGs at 150 DPI in about 11 seconds, around 400 KB per page.
Before
15-page research paper (PDF)
2.1 MB
Text, equations and diagrams that you want to put in slides or a wiki as images.
After
15 PNGs at 150 DPI
5.7 MB ZIP
1275 × 1650 pixels per page, about 400 KB each, with perfectly clean text edges.
Measured in Chrome on a 15-page US Letter paper. At 300 DPI the same pages are 2550 × 3300 pixels and about 1 MB each (14.6 MB in total).
Drop the PDF into the converter at the top of the page or click to choose it (up to 50 MB).
PNG is already selected. Choose a DPI (150 for screens, 300 for print) and, if you only need some pages, type a range such as 1-3, 5.
Press Start Extraction. Each page is rendered in your browser and saved as a PNG.
Preview the pages, download any single PNG, or press Download Full Archive (ZIP) for all of them, named page-1.png, page-2.png and so on.
| DPI | Letter page (A4 page) | PNG per page (measured) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 612 × 792 (595 × 842) | 49–178 KB | Thumbnails and previews |
| 150 | 1275 × 1650 (1240 × 1754) | 142–500 KB | Slides, docs, wikis, screens |
| 300 | 2550 × 3300 (2480 × 3508) | 0.4–1.2 MB | Printing, zooming into small text |
| 600 | 5100 × 6600 (4961 × 7016) | 1.2–3.1 MB | Archives and fine line drawings |
JPG compression works on 8 × 8 pixel blocks and discards detail the eye is unlikely to notice in photos. Sharp black-on-white edges, which is exactly what text is, are where it struggles: you get faint grey "ringing" around letters, visible when zoomed in or when the image is reused. PNG compresses without discarding anything, so the edges stay clean.
The trade-off is size. Text pages compress very well as PNG, typically 150–500 KB per page at 150 DPI. Pages filled with photographs grow much larger, because photos have no repeating patterns for lossless compression to exploit. For those, PDF to JPG makes more sense.
PDF pages are measured in inches (72 points each), not pixels. DPI decides how many pixels each inch becomes. These are the figures we measured on real files in Chrome:
A frequent question is whether PDF to PNG keeps transparency. The answer is no, and that is intentional. A PDF page represents a sheet of paper, and readers always show it on white. The converter does the same, so every pixel of the PNG is opaque and the image looks exactly like the page in your PDF reader.
If you need a transparent graphic, for example a logo or a diagram from the PDF to place on a coloured slide, convert the page here, crop the part you need with the Image Cropper, and remove the white background with the Background Remover, which sends the image to remove.bg to process it.
Each page is drawn by PDF.js, the PDF engine built into Firefox, so the output matches what you see in a browser PDF viewer: text in its embedded fonts, vector graphics, images, and the values typed into fillable form fields (we checked this with a filled-in IRS W-9). Pages stored sideways by a scanner come out upright, as they appear in a reader.
The text becomes pixels, so it can no longer be selected or searched in the PNG. Keep the PDF if you need the text, or extract it from the image with Screenshot to Text.
Everything happens on your device, so very high resolutions depend on its memory. Desktop browsers handle 600 DPI pages easily. Safari on iPhone and iPad refuses to create images over about 16.7 megapixels and returns blank pages instead. The converter detects this and renders such pages at the largest size allowed (about 415 DPI for an A4 page), and a message tells you when it happened.
PDFs up to 50 MB can be opened. For long documents at 300 or 600 DPI, convert in batches with page ranges to keep the browser responsive and the ZIP manageable.
The PDF is read into your browser's memory, each page is drawn onto a canvas and saved as PNG, and the ZIP is assembled locally. Nothing is uploaded, so statements, contracts, exam papers and internal documents are safe to convert. Closing the tab clears everything.
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3-5.Drop the PDF into the converter above, keep PNG selected, choose a DPI and press Start Extraction. Download the pages one by one or all together as a ZIP.
No. PDF pages are rendered on a white page, exactly as they look in a PDF reader, so the PNG has a solid white background. If you need a transparent image of a logo or drawing, convert the page and then remove the white with the Background Remover (that tool uploads the image to remove.bg).
PNG is lossless, so text, lines and diagrams stay perfectly sharp with no smudgy halos. JPG makes smaller files and is better for pages that are mostly photos. For photo-heavy pages, use PDF to JPG.
Use 150 DPI for anything shown on a screen: slides, documents, chat and websites. Use 300 DPI for printing or when people need to zoom into small text. 600 DPI produces very large images and is only worth it for archives and detailed drawings.
No. The PDF is opened and rendered by PDF.js inside your browser, and the PNGs are created on your device. Nothing is sent to a server.
Yes. Values typed into fillable fields are drawn into the PNG, just as a PDF reader shows them. We checked this with a filled-in IRS W-9.
Safari on iPhone and iPad limits a single image to about 16.7 megapixels and would otherwise produce blank pages. A 600 DPI A4 page is about 35 megapixels, so on those devices the converter renders it at the largest size allowed (about 415 DPI for A4) and tells you. Desktop browsers render the full 600 DPI.
Yes. Enter a range such as 2-4 or 1, 3, 7 before converting. Leave it empty to convert every page.
No. A PNG is a picture of the page. To get the text back out, use Screenshot to Text (OCR) on the image, or copy it from the original PDF.