PDF to Images

Render the pages you choose as PNG, JPEG or WebP at 1× to 3× the page size. Each page arrives as a complete picture on a white background, one file per page, in a ZIP when several pages are rendered.

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    How to render PDF pages as PNG, JPEG or WebP images

    Choose a PDF, name the pages to keep and press Process files: every page is drawn in full — text, artwork and photographs as the page shows them — at 1×, 1.5×, 2× or 3× the page size. The work runs in the browser with PDF.js, so the file is not uploaded.

    One page comes back as a single image, several pages as a ZIP with one file per page. The status line names what was saved and the Output panel reports how many pages were rendered, in which format and at which scale.

    1. Pick one PDF in the Input panel. The drop zone takes a click, a drop or the keyboard.
    2. Fill the Pages box with the pages to keep, for example 1-3,5, or leave it empty to render the whole document.
    3. Choose PNG, JPEG or WebP and a render scale of 1×, 1.5×, 2× or 3×.
    4. Press Process files. Five 300 × 400 pt pages at 1.5× took about a second in Chrome and produced a 45 KB ZIP; a page of that size arrives as 300 × 400 pixels at 1×, 450 × 600 at 1.5× and 600 × 800 at 2×.
    5. The download is named after the PDF: page 3 of plain5.pdf is plain5-page-3.png, and a multi-page run is plain5-images.zip with one entry per page. Clear empties the file list and the result panel but keeps the page, format and scale settings for the next run.

    What the downloaded images contain

    Whole pages, not extracted pictures

    The renderer draws the page itself, so what arrives is what a PDF viewer shows: the page is rasterised at screen resolution with its text, rules and images flattened together, on an opaque white background — the empty corners of a nearly blank page came out white, not transparent. Text stops being selectable, and an embedded photo is not lifted out at its original resolution.

    PNG is written lossless; JPEG and WebP are written at quality 0.9. A plain 300 × 400 pt page at 1.5× produced an 11 KB PNG, the same page at 1× as WebP 2 KB, and the five-page document at 1.5× a 45 KB ZIP.

    Page ranges and repeated pages

    The Pages box takes single numbers and closed ranges: 1-3,5 renders pages 1, 2, 3 and 5, and an empty box renders the document from the first page to the last. The order written is the order rendered, so 5,4 renders page 5 and then page 4, and 5-3 is read as 5, 4, 3.

    A number the document does not have (0 or 99 in a five-page file) or a token that is not a number is answered with “Enter valid page numbers within this document.” and nothing is drawn. A page asked for twice is rendered twice: the second copy takes a numeric suffix in the ZIP and the status line says how many names were renamed.

    Limits and damaged files

    One run renders at most 50 pages; a 52-page document is refused before anything is drawn. The canvas behind each image has its own ceiling of roughly 16,384 × 16,384 pixels, which a 6,000 × 6,000 pt page reaches at 3×: 1× (6,000 × 6,000) and 1.5× (9,000 × 9,000, about six seconds) render, while 3× is answered with a message asking for a smaller scale instead of a blank file.

    A password-protected PDF, a file that is not a PDF, an empty file and a truncated one each stop the run with a message in the page language, and nothing is downloaded. The file stays on the device: the rail above the workbench marks local processing and the page has no upload step.

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