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How to convert a PDF to PNG images

Published October 31, 2026 by Jason Nel

You need a page of a PDF as a picture: for a slide, a website, a support ticket or an image editor. Converting a PDF to PNG gives you a sharp, lossless image of each page, and you don’t need to upload the file anywhere.

How to convert PDF to PNG step by step

  1. Open PDF to PNG and choose your PDF. It’s processed in your browser and never uploaded.
  2. Pick Normal (150 dpi) or High (300 dpi) quality.
  3. Click Convert to PNG. Every page is saved as its own image, named after the PDF and numbered by page, for example report_page-0001.png.
  4. Download the images. Several images come together in a ZIP.

Which resolution should I choose?

  • Normal (150 dpi) is plenty for screens, slides, web pages and email.
  • High (300 dpi) is for printing a page as a picture, or zooming in on small detail. The files are larger.

Very large pages, such as posters, are capped at 10,000 pixels on their longest side so your browser doesn’t run out of memory.

PNG or JPG?

PNG is lossless: text, charts and line drawings stay perfectly sharp, with no fuzzy edges around letters. The cost is bigger files. JPG is better for photos and scanned pages, where it gives much smaller files with no visible difference. If that describes your PDF, use PDF to JPG instead.

How to convert only one page

PDF to PNG converts every page. To get just one, first use Extract pages to save that page as its own PDF, then convert that file. Or convert everything and keep the image you need.

What the PNGs look like

Pages are drawn on a white background, so the PNGs look like the printed page. Text stays selectable in the PDF but becomes part of the picture in the PNG, so use PDF to Word if you need editable text.

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