PDF to PNG
Turn every page into a lossless PNG at screen or print resolution. Text and line art stay crisp, with none of the smudging JPG adds.
300 DPI is what a printer wants and it is roughly seventeen times the pixels of 72, so a long document at 300 will take a moment and produce large files.
Drop a PDF here. Every page becomes an image.
Your file is processed on this device. Nothing is uploaded.
Lossless is the point
PNG keeps every pixel exactly as rendered. For a page of text that means letters with clean edges, hairlines that stay one pixel wide and table borders that don’t smear. Paste the result into documentation, a support article or a slide and zooming in shows the same crispness as the original PDF at that resolution.
JPG was built for photographs, where a little softness is invisible. Text is the opposite case: sharp dark shapes on a flat light background are exactly where its compression artefacts show, as a grey haze around every character.
File sizes to expect
A text page at 150 DPI is typically 100 to 300KB as PNG. A page dominated by a photograph can reach several megabytes, because PNG refuses to throw detail away. If the result is too large, lower the DPI before switching format: halving the DPI quarters the pixels.
Getting one page rather than all of them
Every page is rendered and each thumbnail downloads individually, so click the one you want. For a long document, split the PDF first so only the pages you need are rendered.
Common questions
Why choose PNG over JPG for PDF pages?
Most PDF pages are text, tables and diagrams: sharp edges on a flat background. PNG stores those exactly, while JPG blurs every edge slightly and adds faint speckles around letters. For a page of text, a PNG is often smaller than a JPG of the same quality, too.
When is JPG the better choice?
When the page is mostly a photograph or a scan of paper. Photographic detail is what JPG was designed for and a full-page photo stored as PNG can be five to ten times larger with no visible benefit. For those, use PDF to JPG instead.
Are the PNGs transparent?
No. Pages are rendered onto white, the way every PDF reader shows them. A PDF page has no background of its own, so a transparent render would show dark text on nothing, which looks broken on dark backgrounds and in most slide templates.
What resolution should I pick?
150 DPI for documentation, slides and screen use, which gives an A4 page about 1240 pixels wide. 300 DPI for printing or zooming into fine print. 72 DPI renders the page at its nominal size, which is usually too small to read comfortably on a modern screen.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. The pages are rendered in this tab by the same engine browsers use to display PDFs and the images are created on your device.
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The other tools
All of them work the same way: the file is read in your browser and never uploaded.