Why does a multi-page PDF download as a zip instead of separate images?

Browsers block a burst of automatic downloads, so firing off fifty separate image downloads would fail partway. Bundling all pages into a single zip is the reliable way to deliver them — unzip it and you have one numbered image per page.

PNG or JPEG — which should I pick?

PNG for documents: text, line art, and diagrams stay perfectly sharp, at the cost of bigger files. JPEG for photo-heavy pages where smaller output matters more than pixel-exact text edges.

Will text in the images remain selectable or searchable?

No — the output is rasterized, so text becomes pixels. If you want the text itself, use the PDF to Text tool; if you want images you can later OCR, these exports work fine as OCR input.

Can I choose a higher resolution?

The tool renders at a fixed 2x scale, which suits screens and presentations. If you need print-resolution output (300+ DPI), render the specific page from a desktop PDF application instead.

PDF → Images

Export each PDF page as a PNG or JPEG image.

Drop PDF files here or browse

Max 100MB per file

About PDF to Images

Sometimes you need PDF pages as plain images: a single page to drop into a slide deck, a preview to post where PDFs can't be embedded, page snapshots for a thumbnail gallery, or input for an image-only workflow. Convertora's PDF-to-images tool renders every page of a PDF to a bitmap and hands the results back as downloadable files.

Rendering happens with the same PDF engine browsers use for built-in PDF viewing (PDF.js), running locally on your machine. Pages are rasterized at twice their nominal size — roughly 144 DPI — which keeps text crisp on screens and in presentations. A standard A4 page comes out around 1190 by 1684 pixels.

How to use it

1Upload a PDF (up to 100MB).
2Choose the output format: PNG for lossless quality and graphics with sharp edges, or JPEG for smaller files where slight compression is acceptable.
3Click Export. Each page is rendered to a canvas in your browser and encoded to the chosen format.
4A single-page PDF downloads as one image. A multi-page PDF downloads as one zip archive containing a numbered image per page (yourfile-page-1.png, yourfile-page-2.png, and so on).

Common use cases

Embedding a specific PDF page into PowerPoint, Google Slides, or a Word document as a picture.
Posting a page preview on social media or in a chat app that displays images inline but not PDFs.
Creating page thumbnails for a website or document management UI.
Producing images of pages for annotation in an image editor.
Flattening a PDF page so its content can no longer be selected or edited as text.

Frequently asked questions

Tips

Only need a couple of pages from a long document? Split those pages out first with the Split PDF tool — the export will be faster and the zip smaller.
For a scalable (zoomable) version of a page rather than a fixed bitmap, see the PDF to SVG tool — though note its output is also raster-based internally.

100% private — runs in your browser

Convertora processes everything on your device using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Files never leave your browser, are never uploaded to a server, and are never seen by us or anyone else. The moment you close the tab, the data is gone — there is no temporary cloud copy, no log entry, no retained backup.

Because the work happens locally, processing speed depends on your device — but there are no rate limits, no daily caps, and no file size restrictions beyond what your browser can handle in memory. No signup, no account, no payment. The tool works the same in incognito mode, on a corporate network, or after the page has loaded once, even with the network disconnected.