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How to convert PDF to PNG

Turning a PDF page into an image is how you get a chart into a slide deck, a diagram into documentation, or a page preview onto a web page. The format you pick decides whether the result looks crisp or slightly smeared.

This guide shows how to convert PDF pages to PNG free in your browser, and when PNG is genuinely the better choice over JPG.

Open the PDF to PNG tool

Convert PDF pages to PNG in your browser

Pages are rendered with pdf.js on your own device, so the document is never uploaded.

  1. 1Open the free PDF to PNG tool.
  2. 2Drag in your PDF, or click to browse for it.
  3. 3Choose Standard for screen use or High for printing and enlarging.
  4. 4Leave the pages box blank for the whole document, or enter a range like 1-3, 5.
  5. 5Download a single PNG, or a ZIP when you exported several pages.

PNG or JPG? It depends on the page

Choose PNG when the page is text, a table, a chart, a diagram or line art. PNG is lossless, so hard black-on-white edges stay clean. JPG compresses by smoothing, which shows up as faint grey halos around letterforms — obvious once you notice it, and worse the more you enlarge.

Choose JPG when the page is mostly photographic. There the smoothing is invisible and the file is a fraction of the size, which matters if you are exporting a hundred pages.

Picking a resolution

Standard renders at roughly 1.5×, which is right for web pages, slides and anything viewed at normal size. High renders at roughly 2.5× — use it when the image will be printed, projected, or cropped and enlarged. Higher resolution means proportionally larger files, so don't reach for High by default.

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Convert PDF pages into sharp, lossless PNG images.

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