PDF to JPG Converter
When you need a PDF as a picture - for a thumbnail, a chat attachment, a forum post, or a quick preview in a design tool - this is the converter. Each page is rendered at the DPI you pick (72 for web, 150 for print-preview, 300 for print) and saved as a JPEG with configurable quality. You can grab a specific page or download all pages as a ZIP.
How to convert PDF to JPG
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Upload the PDF
Any standard PDF up to the site's file size limit.
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Choose DPI
72 DPI for web, 150 for on-screen previews, 300 for print-quality output.
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Set JPEG quality
Quality 80-90 is a good balance of size vs sharpness. 95+ keeps more detail but creates much larger files.
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Download
Individual JPGs per page, or a ZIP with every page named `page-01.jpg`, `page-02.jpg`...
Pick the right DPI
| DPI | Approx. pixel width (A4/Letter) | Good for |
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| 72 | ~595-612 px | Web previews, social media thumbnails |
| 150 | ~1240-1275 px | Retina-friendly previews, blog posts |
| 200 | ~1654-1700 px | On-screen reading, documentation |
| 300 | ~2480-2550 px | Print-quality reproduction |
| 600 | ~4960-5100 px | Archival, detailed illustrations |
JPG quality in practice
- Quality 60-70: Aggressive compression, visible artefacts around text. Avoid for anything with small type.
- Quality 80-85: Sweet spot for most web uses. Text stays readable, files stay small.
- Quality 90-95: Close to the original. Use when JPEG is required and file size is secondary.
- Quality 100: Maximum JPEG quality, usually the largest file, but still not a true archival format. Use PNG instead for crisp text or transparent artwork.
JPG vs PNG for PDFs
JPG is great for PDFs with photographs or gradient-heavy design. For PDFs full of text, line art or flat colours, PNG gives sharper results at similar file sizes - try the PDF to PNG tool for those.
What about transparency?
JPG does not support transparency. Any transparent area in the PDF becomes white in the exported JPG. Switch to PNG if you need to preserve transparent backgrounds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. After upload, type a page number or range like 3 or 5-7 before converting and only those pages are rendered.
Usually DPI is too low. Bump it from 72 to 150 or 200 for sharper text. If you need perfectly crisp type, PNG is a better format than JPG.
Roughly pages x (DPI/72)^2 x quality_factor. A 20-page PDF at 150 DPI quality 85 is usually 8-20 MB. At 300 DPI it can reach 40-80 MB.
No. The PDF you upload and the JPGs we generate sit on a temporary worker only until you download, and are deleted immediately afterwards.
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