Turn pages into pictures, on your own device
Sometimes a PDF is the wrong format. You need a page in a slide, an image in a chat, a screenshot for a support ticket, or a picture to attach where a PDF will not be accepted.
This renders each page and saves it as a JPG, entirely inside your browser. The rendering engine and your document both stay on your device.
Choose quality in real terms
Most converters offer a 1–100 slider, which tells you nothing. These are stated as what they actually are:
- Screen — about 72 DPI. Email, chat, previews. Smallest files.
- Good — about 144 DPI. The default, and right for almost everything. Sharp on a phone or a retina display.
- Print — about 288 DPI. Only if the image will genuinely be printed. Files get large quickly.
Higher is not better; it is just bigger. A 288 DPI image emailed to someone who will glance at it on a phone wastes their bandwidth and yours.
What you lose, stated plainly
Converting a page to an image discards the text layer. The result looks identical but the words are no longer words — they cannot be searched, selected, copied, or read by a screen reader.
That is not a flaw in this tool; it is what converting to an image means. If you need the text, keep the PDF. If you need a picture, this is the right conversion.
It also means the result is not a good way to make a file smaller. Rendering a page to a JPEG and putting it back into a PDF is precisely what makes most online compressors produce blurry, unreadable documents. If your goal is a smaller file, use the compressor rather than a round trip through images.
Going the other way
If you need images turned into a PDF instead — photographing a certificate for an application, say — use images to PDF. It embeds your photos without re-encoding them, so nothing is degraded on the way in.