To save PDF pages as images, open Kopitiam's PDF to JPG tool, drop in your PDF, choose JPG or PNG and a quality, and press Convert & download. A one-page PDF downloads as a single image. A longer PDF downloads as one .zip file with an image for every page, named in page order.

Pick JPG for scans and photos, and PNG for pages that are mostly sharp text, charts or line drawings. The pages are drawn into images inside your browser, so the PDF is never uploaded. The rest of this guide covers the quality settings, getting just one page, and what to watch for when the images are headed for slides, social media or a chat app.

Step by step

  1. Open PDF to JPG and drop your PDF onto the box, or click it to choose the file.
  2. Under Format, choose JPG or PNG. JPG is selected to start with.
  3. Under Quality, choose Screen, High or Print. High is selected to start with.
  4. Press Convert & download. For a long PDF the button counts up as it works, for example Rendering page 12 of 40.
  5. Find the download. A one-page invoice.pdf gives you invoice.jpg. A 40-page report.pdf gives you report-jpg.zip containing report-01.jpg, report-02.jpg and so on.

The page numbers in the file names are padded with zeros to the same length (01 to 40, or 001 to 120), so they sort in the right order in any folder. The zip also holds a short README.txt, which you can ignore or delete.

JPG or PNG: which to pick

Both formats show the page exactly as it looks in a PDF viewer. The difference is how the image is stored, and that changes the file size and how crisp small text looks.

  • JPG is smaller. It stores the picture in a way that's very efficient for photos and scanned pages, where a tiny loss of detail is invisible. Choose it for a scanned passport page, a photo-heavy brochure, or anything you're sending over a chat app.
  • PNG is lossless. Every pixel is kept exactly, so the edges of letters, table lines and chart labels stay clean. Choose it for a slide, a spreadsheet printed to PDF, a diagram, or a page you'll crop and zoom into.
  • If you're not sure, try JPG at High. If small text looks soft or has faint smudges around it when you zoom in, convert again as PNG.

PNG files of text pages are usually small anyway, because large areas of plain white compress well. PNG files of scanned or photographic pages, on the other hand, can be several times larger than the JPG version with no visible gain.

What the quality settings mean

Quality sets how many pixels wide each page image is. Screen draws the page about 1,000 pixels wide, High about 1,600 and Print about 2,400. More pixels means sharper detail when you zoom or print, and a bigger file.

The final size also depends on your screen. Kopitiam multiplies those widths by your display's pixel density so the images look sharp on it, which means a phone or a high-resolution laptop can produce images two or three times wider than the numbers above. If a site asks for an image under a certain width, check the size of what you got before uploading.
  • Screen: for viewing on a phone or laptop, chat apps, and quick previews. Smallest files.
  • High: a good default for slides, documents and social posts. Text stays readable when you zoom in a little.
  • Print: for printing the image at full page size, or when you'll crop a small part of the page, such as one chart, and still want it sharp.

There's no separate JPG compression slider. Kopitiam saves JPGs at a fixed high quality, so choosing a lower Quality setting is the way to get smaller files.

Getting just one page, or a few

PDF to JPG always converts every page. That's fine for a short document, but for page 7 of a 60-page report you have two options.

  1. Convert the whole PDF, open the zip, and keep only the image you need. Simple, but slow for a long file at Print quality.
  2. Use Extract Pages first to pull page 7 out into its own PDF, then convert that. You get a single image straight away, with no zip to open.

The second way is better on a phone, where opening a zip can be awkward, and for long or very large PDFs, because only the pages you need are drawn.

Slides, social posts and WhatsApp

Most people convert a PDF to images because the place they want to put it doesn't accept PDFs. A few tips for the common ones:

  • Slides: PNG at High or Print gives clean text and charts when the image fills a slide. Crop the image in your slide app to show just the part you need.
  • Social posts: most feeds crop tall images, and an A4 page is taller than they like, so expect the top and bottom to be cut off. Put the important part in the middle, or crop the image to a square before posting. JPG at High is plenty.
  • WhatsApp and other chat apps: images sent as photos are usually compressed again by the app, so fine print can blur. JPG at Screen or High is enough for a flyer or a menu. If the text must stay legible, such as a payslip or a bank letter, send the PDF itself as a document instead.
  • Multi-page posts: convert the whole PDF, unzip it, and add the images to a carousel or album in page order. The numbered file names keep them in sequence.

When it goes wrong

  • "This PDF is password-protected." Kopitiam can't open locked PDFs. Open the file with its password in your PDF reader, use Print, then Save as PDF to make an unlocked copy, and convert that copy.
  • A PDF with editing restrictions, but no password to open it, is fine here. PDF to JPG only reads the file, so it converts normally.
  • "This PDF looks damaged or incomplete." The file didn't download fully, or it's broken. Get it again from the email or website it came from.
  • "This file isn't a PDF." The file has a .pdf name but is something else. Open it in the app that made it and export it as a real PDF.
  • A huge PDF stalls or the tab crashes. Every page image is held in your device's memory until the zip is made, so hundreds of pages at Print quality can be too much, especially on a phone. Choose a lower quality, or extract the pages in batches and convert each batch.

Things to know before you convert

An image of a page is only a picture. The text in it can't be selected, searched or copied, and a screen reader can't read it aloud. If what you really want is the words, for example to paste a clause into an email, use PDF to Word & text instead, which pulls out the text itself.

Images also aren't a good way to make a document smaller or harder to change. A folder of page images is usually larger than the PDF it came from, and anyone with a photo editor can edit an image. To shrink a PDF, use Compress PDF. To hide information before sharing, use Redact PDF rather than cropping a screenshot.

Like Kopitiam's other PDF tools, PDF to JPG is free, needs no account and adds no watermark to your images. It runs in your browser and keeps working if your connection drops after the page has loaded, which matters when the PDF is a payslip, a medical letter or anything else you'd rather not upload.