PDF to JPG Converter
Convert PDF files to JPG instantly and privately. File Converts runs entirely in your browser, so your PDF is never uploaded to any server.
File converter
At a glance
- Where it runs
- Runs in your browser — your file is never uploaded.
- File size
- Up to 50 MB per file.
- Offline
Works offline — everything it needs is already on your device.
- Batch
- Several files at once.
- Cost
- Free, with no account and no daily limit.
Converting a PDF to JPG turns its pages into standard image files. That's exactly what you need when you want to post a page as a picture, drop it into a slide or a chat, create a thumbnail or preview, or use a page somewhere that accepts images but not PDFs. Each page becomes its own JPG.
File Converts renders your PDF to images in the browser, so the file is never uploaded — your document stays private on your device, with no sign-up and no daily limit. For a multi-page PDF you can download every page at once as a .zip, or grab a single page on its own.
JPG is the most widely supported image format, so the result opens on every device, app, and website with nothing to install. The pages are rendered at a quality suited for sharing and viewing on screen.
If you need transparency or the crispest possible text and edges, convert to PNG instead. And to go the other direction — turning images back into a single PDF — use our Images to PDF tool. Everything runs locally, so your document never leaves your computer.
Best for
- Turning a PDF page into an image to drop into a slide, doc, or post
- Sharing one page as a picture with someone who can't open a PDF
- Pulling a figure, chart, or signature out of a PDF as an image
Good to know
Each page becomes a separate JPG at screen resolution. JPG is lossy and can't hold transparency — for sharp text, line art, or a transparent background, use PDF to PNG instead. Very high-resolution output is limited by your device's memory.
Choose a resolution: 1×, 2× or 3×
The Resolution control sets how many pixels each page gets. 1× renders at 72 pixels per inch of page, 2× at 144 and 3× at 216. In practice a US Letter page comes out at 612 × 792 pixels at 1×, 1224 × 1584 at 2× and 1836 × 2376 at 3×. The default is 2×, which reads comfortably on a screen and in a slide.
Use 1× for thumbnails and previews, where small files matter more than detail. Use 3× when you need to zoom in, crop out a small figure, or print the image. Every step up roughly doubles the pixel count or more, so it also costs file size and memory.
Quality and file size
The Quality slider runs from 30% to 100% and starts at 92%. Lower settings give smaller files. The first thing to suffer is the edges of text and lines, which pick up faint smudges around them, while photographs hide the loss far better. For a page that is mostly text, keep quality high, or use PDF to PNG, which is lossless. For a photo-heavy page you are posting online, 70–80% is usually plenty.
Resolution and quality work together. A 3× image at 70% can look sharper than a 1× image at 100%, because there are more pixels to carry the detail. If a file is too big, lower the resolution first, then the quality.
Export one page or every page
For a multi-page PDF the tool shows a page picker. Step through with − and + or type a number, and that one page is saved as a JPG named after your file with the page number on the end. To get the whole document, tick "Export every page as a .zip". Every page is rendered in turn, with progress shown on the button, and the images arrive in one ZIP.
Inside the ZIP the files are numbered with leading zeros, such as page-01, page-02 and so on up to page-12, so they sort in page order in any file manager. The ZIP stores the JPGs as they are without compressing them again. JPGs barely shrink in a ZIP anyway, and skipping it keeps the export quick.
What ends up in the image
Each page is drawn the way a PDF viewer would show it, then flattened into a picture. The image keeps the page's own shape, so a landscape page gives a landscape image. JPG cannot store transparency, so any transparent area is filled with white rather than black.
The result is only a picture. Its text cannot be selected or searched, links no longer work, and form fields become part of the image. If you need the words, use PDF to Text. If you need to keep the document's structure and only want a preview image, keep the PDF alongside the JPG.
What to do when the conversion goes wrong
Each PDF can be up to 50 MB. A larger file is turned away when you add it. If the page count never appears next to the file name and the conversion then fails, the file could not be opened. It is usually password-protected or damaged. Remove the password with Unlock PDF, or re-save the file from a PDF viewer, and try again.
If the target suddenly switches to PDF and the tool offers to merge, you have added more than one PDF. This page renders one PDF at a time, so remove the extras. If the tab slows down or reloads while exporting every page at 3×, the device has run out of memory. Drop to 2× or export the pages you need one at a time.
Rendering pages on your own device
The pages are rendered in your browser and the upload counter stays at zero. Everything the renderer needs comes with the page, so once the page has loaded it keeps working with the network off.
What this tool does
- Input
- One PDF, up to 50 MB
- Output
- A JPG of one page, or a ZIP with every page as a JPG
- Resolution
- 1× / 2× / 3× = 72 / 144 / 216 pixels per inch (default 2×)
- Quality
- Adjustable from 30% to 100% (default 92%)
- File naming
- Page number added; ZIP entries zero-padded so they sort
- Transparency
- Filled with white — JPG has no alpha channel
- Text & links
- Flattened into the image; not selectable or clickable
- Where it runs
- In your browser — nothing is uploaded
- Works offline
- Yes, once the page has loaded
How to convert PDF → JPG
Drop your PDF file into the converter above — it stays on your device.
Choose JPG as the output. File Converts picks the smartest settings automatically.
Click Convert and download your JPG file instantly.