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Convert PDF to PNG
Short answer
Turns each page of a PDF into a PNG image without compression traces, at 72, 150 or 300 dpi. You take all pages or only some, such as “5” or “2-4”. The PDF stays on your device, because your browser renders the pages itself.
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Convert PDF to PNG
Runs in your browser
Your browser processes the files itself.
No upload
Your files stay on your device.
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In 4 steps
How it works
Drag the PDF into the box or find it with “Choose file”. The list then shows its page count.
Set the resolution. 150 dpi suits slides and screens, 300 dpi suits print.
If you only need part of it, choose “Selected pages” and enter the pages, such as “2-4”.
Click “Create images” and download the PNG files, several of them also bundled as a ZIP.
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When PNG is the right choice
PNG is the format for anything with clean edges. A table from a report, a chart for a presentation or a page from a manual stays crisp in it. With JPG, slight smudges can form around letters and lines. If you want to keep editing an image, PNG is also the better pick, because saving it again leaves the quality unchanged.
For photos and scans PNG is hardly worth it. The traces of JPG compression go unnoticed there, and the files stay much smaller.
Resolution and file size
150 dpi is preset and is enough for screens, slides and documentation. For a print, or if you want to zoom in later, take 300 dpi. The image then has four times as many pixels, and the file grows accordingly. 72 dpi gives small previews.
Large-format plans and posters would turn into huge images at 300 dpi. To keep the browser from crashing, the tool lowers the resolution for such pages and writes the actual value into the result list.
Background, forms and comments
Each page sits on a white background, as in a PDF app. That is why the PNG has no see-through areas. The tool draws form entries, highlights and comment icons into the image. This makes the PNG a good way to pass on a filled-in application as a picture.
Why no upload
Presentations and reports often contain internal figures. This tool sends your PDF nowhere, the pages are rendered in your browser. To be sure, watch the network requests in the developer tools. The PDF is not transferred in any of them.
Formats and limits
Good to know
- Every page in the selection becomes a PNG file of its own. You download a single page directly, several pages also together as a ZIP.
- PNG is lossless. Text, lines and tables keep their hard edges, and no compression traces appear.
- At 150 dpi an A4 page becomes a PNG with 1240 × 1754 pixels. 300 dpi doubles width and height, so the image has four times as many pixels.
- Pages with photos produce large PNG files, because the format records every pixel exactly. For those pages “Convert PDF to JPG” is the leaner choice.
- The PNG images do not have a transparent background. Wherever the page is empty, the image is white, just like the paper in a PDF app.
- Form entries, highlights and other annotations appear in the PNG at the same spot as in a PDF app. The image is flat afterwards, so links and selectable text are gone.
- Each file carries the name of the PDF and the page number, for example “report-page-07.png”. If the selection goes beyond page 9, leading zeros make sure your file manager sorts correctly.
- If a font is missing from the PDF, the tool uses a similar substitute. It loads that substitute and the decoders for image formats such as JPEG 2000 only when a page needs them. Your PDF does not leave your device in the process.
- A password or a lock on printing or copying prevents the conversion, and the tool tells you so. PDFs that only lock editing are still converted. It checks the bytes to see whether a file is a PDF, the extension does not count.
- The tool uses pdf.js, the PDF viewer from Firefox. Current browsers are supported, on iPhone and iPad from iOS 18. On iOS 17.4 to 17.x it may work, before iOS 17.4 the tool reports that the browser is too old.
- The PDF can be up to 300 MB and 3,000 pages, or up to 100 MB and 1,000 pages on iPhone and iPad. A larger file is rejected with a notice.
- An image has at most 50 megapixels, or 16 megapixels on iPhone and iPad. Width and height are at most 16,384 pixels each. If a page would be larger at the chosen resolution, the tool lowers the resolution for that page only. The result list then shows the dpi it was made with.
- All images together can be up to 300 MB, or up to 100 MB on iPhone and iPad.
When is PNG better than JPG?
When sharp edges matter. Text, tables, charts and drawings look in the PNG exactly as they do in the PDF. With photos you will not see a difference, and there JPG is much smaller.
Does the PNG have a transparent background?
No. The page is drawn in white like a sheet of paper, even where the PDF has nothing on it. If you need a see-through background, remove the white afterwards in an image editor.
Can I put PDF slides into PowerPoint or Keynote as PNG?
Yes, both apps accept PNG. For presenting on a projector or a screen, 150 dpi is enough. If the slide will be printed later, use 300 dpi.
Are filled-in forms converted too?
Yes. Whatever you typed into form fields appears in the PNG exactly where it sits in the PDF. After that it can no longer be edited, because the PNG is a flat image.
Why are my PNG files so large?
PNG stores every pixel without loss. On pages with photos or gradients this makes the file grow a lot. Choose a lower resolution or convert those pages with “Convert PDF to JPG”.
Do I have to upload my PDF anywhere?
No. The tool runs entirely in your browser, including the rendering of the pages. Your browser only fetches parts of the program from our website, and your PDF stays on the device.
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