How to save PDF pages as JPG images

Updated on October 20, 2026

You need one page of a PDF as a picture: a chart for a presentation, a poster for an Instagram story, a menu for a website or a timetable to send in a chat. A JPG works in all of those places, while a PDF often can’t be inserted or shown. Here is how to turn PDF pages into JPG images in your browser.

How it works

1. Open PDF to JPG and choose your PDF. You can add several PDFs at once.
2. Pick the pages you need. Type them in Pages to convert, for example 3 or 1, 3-5. Leave the field empty to convert every page.
3. Choose a quality. Small, Standard or High: see below which one fits.
4. Click Convert to JPG and download the result. One page gives one JPG; several pages come together in one zip.

Which quality for what?

• Small (96 DPI): for an email or a web page, where a small file matters more than detail.
• Standard (150 DPI): sharp on screens. Good for a slide, a chat message or social media, which scale pictures down anyway.
• High (300 DPI): for printing, or when you want to zoom in on small text or a detailed chart.

The DPI you choose is stored in every JPG. Word and print dialogs therefore place the image at the real size of the page.

The whole page, or only the pictures in it?

PDF to JPG turns a whole page into one picture, text included. Do you only want a photo or logo from the PDF? Then use Extract images. It saves every picture in the PDF as its own file, at the size it is stored in the document. Charts and logos drawn as shapes aren’t pictures, though: for those, PDF to JPG is the way.

PDF to JPG at 300 DPI

Need print quality? Choose High (300 DPI) in PDF to JPG. An A4 page then becomes an image of about 2480 × 3508 pixels, a US Letter page 2550 × 3300 pixels, and 300 DPI is stored in every JPG.

• Four times as many pixels as Standard. The files are a lot larger, so only convert the pages you need.
• Very large pages get a little less. Every image stays under 16 megapixels and 8000 pixels per side, the limit browsers can draw. An A3 page or a poster is therefore saved at a lower resolution (A3: about 288 DPI), and the result says which pages that applies to.
• 300 DPI adds no detail that isn’t there. Text and drawings come out sharp, but a page that was scanned at 150 DPI doesn’t get any sharper.

On a phone

It works the same in Safari or Chrome on your phone. With several images you get a zip, and on many phones a second button appears that saves the images separately through the share menu, for example straight into your photos (on iPhone: Save Images). That button is offered for up to 10 images.

Good to know

• The text becomes part of the picture. You can no longer select or search it. Need text you can edit? Use PDF to Word.
• Transparent areas become white. A JPG has no transparency.
• The names follow your PDF. A one-page PDF gives name.jpg; a longer one gives name-page-1.jpg, name-page-2.jpg and so on.
• At 300 DPI a long document gets big fast. Convert only the pages you need. On a phone or tablet the tool stops before it would run out of memory.
• No half-finished sets. If a page can’t be drawn, that file gives no images at all, and the message says at which page it stopped.

The other way round

Do you have photos or scans and need a PDF? Use JPG to PDF. Turn a scan or photo into a PDF has tips for a sharp result.

Your PDF stays with you

The pages are drawn by your own browser, the same way a PDF viewer shows them. Your PDF isn’t uploaded. You can check that in your browser’s network tab; Check it yourself shows how.

Frequently asked questions