PDF to JPG

• Render mode. Each page of the PDF becomes a JPG at the resolution you choose. Use this when you need a visual representation of every page — for posting on Slack, embedding in a slide, sending to someone without a PDF viewer.
• Extract mode. Pulls out the raw images that were embedded inside the PDF (photos, illustrations, charts). Use this when you want the original assets that went into making the PDF.

The right mode depends entirely on what you want at the end. Render gives you "pictures of the pages." Extract gives you "the photos that were in those pages."

1. Open PDF to JPG.
2. Drop your PDF onto the page.
3. Pick a mode: Render each page or Extract embedded images.
4. For Render mode, pick a DPI: 72 (web preview), 150 (general), 300 (print quality).
5. Click Convert. A ZIP file with all the JPGs downloads.

If unsure, 150 DPI hits the sweet spot. Render at higher DPI than you need and you waste bytes; render at lower than you need and the result looks pixelated.

• Sharing a single page on Slack/Discord/social. Render the page at 150 DPI, share the JPG — no one has to open a PDF.
• Embedding a PDF page in a slide. Render to JPG, drop into PowerPoint or Keynote.
• Building image-only PDFs. Render at 200 DPI, then re-bundle with JPG to PDF — this is how compression-via-rasterization works.
• Extracting the photos from a PDF report. Use Extract mode to get the originals.
• Preparing scans for OCR. Render at 300+ DPI, feed into Tesseract or an OCR service.
• Social media posts from charts. Render the page with the chart, crop, post.

• JPG only. PNG and WebP output not in v1. Render to JPG then convert.
• Whole-page render only. Cropping to a region isn't built in. Render then crop in any image editor.
• Embedded extraction is approximate. Some PDF compression schemes (especially JBIG2 for scanned text) don't extract cleanly. Render mode is more reliable for these.
• Vector content gets rasterized in Render mode. SVG-like sharpness is lost at the chosen DPI. For lossless vector use, keep the PDF.

• Output is huge. Lower the DPI. 600 DPI on a 50-page PDF = 100MB of JPGs. 150 DPI is usually enough.
• Slow rendering. High-DPI rendering is CPU-intensive. Close other tabs and lower DPI if it's taking too long.
• Image extraction is missing some images. Some PDFs store images in non-standard formats (JBIG2). Use Render mode as a fallback.
• Need PNG not JPG? Run JPG output through a free PNG converter, or use a different tool.

PDFs you convert to images often contain things you don't want online: contracts, signed forms, ID scans, medical records. Web converters typically upload the file, render server-side, and email you a link — meaning your sensitive content briefly lives on someone else's server. SwissArmyPDF runs rendering in your browser using pdfjs-dist. Nothing is uploaded.

• JPG to PDF — rebuild a PDF from the rendered images.
• Compress PDF — alternative to render-then-rebuild for shrinking.
• Extract PDF Pages — if you wanted specific pages as a PDF instead of images.
• Redact PDF — for hiding content rather than just converting.