Turn the pages of a PDF into PNG images with nothing lost. Every pixel is kept exactly as drawn, so text edges and thin lines stay sharp at any zoom. Choose the detail level and mark the pages you need. All rendering happens locally on your own machine.
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Up to 100 MB. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Lossless means the image that comes out holds exactly the pixels the page renderer drew. Nothing is approximated and nothing is thrown away to save space. If you zoom all the way in, you see the same values the renderer produced, not an estimate of them.
That is the whole difference from JPG. JPG achieves its small files by deciding which detail you probably will not miss and discarding it. That guess is very good on photographs and quite poor on sharp edges, which is why letters and thin lines are where the difference shows up first.
There is no quality slider on this page for that reason. The only thing that decides how much detail a PNG holds is the resolution you pick, because at that point the page is simply being drawn larger or smaller. Everything drawn is then kept.
The difference is not subtle once you know where to look. These are the four places it shows up:
JPG compresses in 8 by 8 pixel blocks, which works well on photographs where colour changes gradually. Black text on white paper is the opposite: an abrupt jump from dark to light at every letter edge. JPG cannot represent that jump cleanly, so it leaves a faint halo of grey speckles around the letters. PNG stores the pixels exactly, so the edges stay clean no matter how far you zoom.
Diagrams, tables, and technical drawings are built from single-pixel lines and flat blocks of colour. Those are the two things JPG handles worst. A hairline rule can come out broken or smeared, and a solid fill can develop faint banding. PNG keeps both exactly as the page defined them.
Because PNG loses nothing, you can convert, edit, and save again without the image getting worse each time. JPG degrades a little on every save, so a file that has been through a few rounds of editing looks noticeably worse than the first version.
PNG can store transparent areas, which JPG cannot. This tool paints a white background behind every page, because PDF pages are white by default, but the format itself keeps the option open if you edit the image afterwards.
Lossless is not automatically better. PNG has to record everything faithfully, including detail you did not want, and on some pages that makes the file far larger for no visible gain. What is on the page decides:
PNG often wins outright here. Large flat areas of white compress very efficiently in PNG, and there is no quality loss to weigh against it.
Use PNG
A scan is really a photograph of a page, complete with paper texture and sensor noise. PNG has to store every speck of that faithfully, so files can be several times larger than the JPG version for no visible gain.
Use JPG
Few colours and hard edges, which is exactly what PNG is built for. The files stay reasonable and the lines stay crisp.
Use PNG
Continuous tone with millions of colours. PNG cannot compress that well and the file balloons, while JPG handles it with almost no visible difference.
Use JPG
If your pages fall into the JPG column, the PDF to JPG converter has a quality slider so you can trade sharpness against size directly.
Drop the file on the box, or click to browse for it. The PDF is read locally and never leaves your machine. A preview of each page builds up in the grid as the document is processed.
Pick 72, 150, or 300 dpi. There is no quality setting, because PNG is lossless and keeps every pixel exactly as drawn. The tool shows the pixel size you will get.
The whole document is queued by default. Deselect anything you do not need by clicking its preview, or hit clear and cherry-pick only the pages that matter. A lone page arrives as a plain PNG with no archive wrapped around it.
Take the whole set as a single archive, or turn bundling off and receive each PNG separately. The source PDF is read only and stays exactly as it was.
Mostly people who need the result to stay sharp rather than small:
If you need the pages as a PDF rather than as images, Split PDF keeps them in their original format with the text still selectable.
Load the document, set a resolution, mark the pages you need, then hit convert. PNG is fixed on this page, so there is no format decision to make. Every selected page is written as its own file. A single page saves straight to disk; two or more are collected into an archive unless you switch that off. None of it leaves your machine.
It depends on the page. PNG is better for text, charts, and line art, because it keeps edges perfectly crisp. JPG is better for scanned paper and photographs, because the files are far smaller and the quality loss is hard to see. Neither is better in general.
Because PNG stores every pixel exactly rather than discarding detail. On a scanned page that means recording all the paper texture and sensor noise faithfully, which takes a lot of room. On a page of plain text PNG can actually be smaller, since large flat areas compress very efficiently.
No. PNG is lossless, so the image is exactly what the page renderer drew, pixel for pixel. There is no quality slider for that reason. The only thing that limits detail is the resolution you pick.
No. Every page is drawn onto a white background, because PDF pages are white by default and a transparent one would look wrong in most places you paste it. PNG supports transparency, so you can remove the white later in an image editor if you need to.
Yes. The grid starts with everything marked, so press clear to empty it and then tap the one page you are after. With a single page queued, the download is the PNG itself rather than an archive containing it.
150 dpi suits most uses and keeps the file manageable. Use 300 dpi when the image will be printed or enlarged, since PNG holds that extra detail perfectly. Use 72 dpi only when the image is small on screen and file size matters more than sharpness.
Yes. Rendering happens entirely on your own machine using your browser. No copy of the document is transmitted or stored anywhere, and the page keeps working after you disconnect from the network.