PDF Converter
Turn PDF pages into JPG, PNG or WebP images, or extract the text, right in your browser without uploading the file.
PDF Converter - PDF to JPG, PNG, WebP or Text
Turn the pages of a PDF into images you can post, send or put in a presentation, or pull out the text to edit it somewhere else. Choose the format, the resolution and the pages, and download each image or all of them in one ZIP file.
The PDF is never uploaded. Your browser draws each page itself, using pdf.js, the same PDF engine that Firefox uses to show PDFs, and saves the result on your device.
How to use it
- Drop a PDF on the box, or click it to choose one.
- Pick the format under Convert to: JPG, PNG, WebP or Text (.txt).
- For images, choose the Resolution and, for JPG and WebP, the Quality.
- Keep All pages, or choose Only these pages and type them, for example
1-3, 5. - Press Convert, then download the images one by one or with Download all.
Which format and resolution
| Choice | Best for | File size |
|---|---|---|
| JPG | Scans, photos, pages with pictures | Small |
| PNG | Text, lines, diagrams and screenshots that must stay sharp | Larger |
| WebP | Web pages; smaller than JPG at the same quality | Smallest |
| 72 dpi | Quick previews and thumbnails | About 600 × 840 pixels for A4 |
| 150 dpi | Screens, email, uploads to forms | About 1240 × 1750 pixels for A4 |
| 300 dpi | Printing and reading small print | About 2480 × 3510 pixels for A4 |
Every doubling of the resolution makes the image four times larger in pixels. Very large pages, such as posters or engineering drawings at 300 dpi, are reduced to about 16 megapixels so that every browser, including Safari on iPhone, can draw them; the tool tells you when that happens.
Extracting the text
Text (.txt) reads the text stored in the PDF, page by page, with a separator line between pages. It works for PDFs made from a word processor, a browser or a design program. A scanned PDF stores each page as a picture and contains no text; in that case the tool says so, and the images are the way to go. Reading text out of a picture needs OCR, which this tool does not do.
Plain text keeps the words and line breaks, not the layout. Columns, tables and footnotes come out in the order the PDF stores them, which is usually, but not always, the reading order.
Why not Word or Excel?
A PDF records where each character sits on the page, not paragraphs, tables or styles. Rebuilding an editable document from that is guesswork even for large desktop programs, and a browser tool would produce files that look broken. Images keep the page exactly as it is, and text gives you the words to reuse.
Related tools
To merge, split, rotate or delete pages first, use the PDF tools. To go the other way, from images to a PDF, use image to PDF. To shrink the images afterwards, use the image converter. The task pages open this tool with a format chosen: PDF to JPG, PDF to PNG and PDF to text.