PDF to Image
Render a PDF page as a PNG image in your browser. Choose the page, set the scale, preview it, and download the image.
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How to convert a PDF page to an image
Choose a page and a scale, render it, and download a PNG.
- 01
Load the PDF
The tool reads it in your browser and shows how many pages it has.
- 02
Pick a page and a scale
Enter the page number, counted from 1, and a scale from 0.5 to 4. The default is 2, a good balance of sharpness and file size for most uses.
- 03
Render and download the PNG
The page is drawn and shown as a preview. Download saves it with the page number in the name, such as report-page-3.png. Repeat for any other pages you need.
What the scale setting means
PDF pages are measured in points, 72 to the inch. At scale 1 the page is drawn with one pixel per point, so an A4 page, 595 × 842 points, comes out at 595 × 842 pixels, which is 72 pixels per inch. Each step of the scale multiplies both sides. Here's an A4 page at each setting:
| Scale | A4 page size | Effective resolution | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 298 × 421 px | 36 DPI | Small thumbnails |
| 1 | 595 × 842 px | 72 DPI | Quick previews |
| 2 (default) | 1,191 × 1,684 px | 144 DPI | Slides, sharing, reading on screen |
| 3 | 1,786 × 2,526 px | 216 DPI | Zooming in on details, sharp on high-DPI screens |
| 4 (max) | 2,381 × 3,368 px | 288 DPI | Printing, or cropping a small figure out of the page |
Doubling the scale gives four times the pixels, so files and memory use grow fast. Scale 4 on a busy page can produce a PNG several megabytes in size. For printing, aim for around 300 DPI at the printed size; scale 4 gets you to 288 DPI for an A4 page printed at A4.
How the page is drawn
The tool uses PDF.js, the PDF engine inside Firefox, to draw the chosen page onto a canvas exactly as a viewer would: text, vector graphics, images and scanned pages included. The canvas is then saved as a lossless PNG.
Because it's a picture of the page, text in the image is no longer selectable or searchable, and links stop working. If you need the words rather than the look, use PDF to Text instead. Fonts that the PDF doesn't embed are substituted with similar ones, which can change the look slightly on unusual documents.
Why people turn PDF pages into images
A slide from a page of a report
Render the chart page at scale 2 and drop the PNG into PowerPoint or Google Slides, without screenshot borders.
A cover image for a listing
Render page 1 of an ebook or brochure as a thumbnail for a shop, a blog post or a document library.
Sharing one page in a chat
Most chat apps preview images but not PDFs. A PNG of the key page is easier for people to see at a glance.
Limits worth knowing
- One page per render. For a whole document, render each page in turn.
- PNG only. For a smaller JPG or WebP, convert the result with the Image Converter.
- Large scales on big pages can fail on phones, which have less memory for the canvas. Drop to scale 2 if rendering stops.
- Password-protected PDFs that need a password to open can't be read.