PDF to PNG
Save PDF pages as lossless PNG images, with crisp text and lines.
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About PDF to PNG
PDF to PNG saves the pages of a PDF as PNG images, drawn in your browser and downloaded to your device. PNG is lossless: the edges of letters, the thin lines of a chart and the flat colours of a slide come out exactly as they were drawn, with none of the faint speckle JPEG leaves around them.
It suits pages you will drop into a slide deck, a wiki, a design file or a support ticket, where crisp text matters more than a small file. For photographs, JPG is the better choice, and the format menu on this page switches to it in one click.
How it works
- Add a PDF, or several. A locked PDF asks for its password beside the file name.
- Untick any page you do not want as an image; every page starts ticked.
- Decide how sharp the images should be: 220 dpi (Large) for print, 150 dpi (Medium) for screens, 75 dpi (Small) for previews.
- PNG is already chosen under Image format. Click Convert to PNG.
- Download one PNG, or a ZIP when there are two or more.
Pixel sizes at each resolution
The image size is the page size multiplied by the dpi, rounded up to a whole pixel. For the two common paper sizes:
- US Letter: 638 by 825 at Small, 1275 by 1650 at Medium, 1870 by 2420 at Large.
- A4: 621 by 878 at Small, 1241 by 1756 at Medium, 1821 by 2575 at Large.
- Large (220 dpi) is the highest setting. There is no 300 or 600 dpi option.
PNG or JPG: measured on real pages
PNG buys sharpness, not a smaller file. We converted the same pages both ways at each resolution:
- A Letter page of plain text: PNG 135 KB, 325 KB and 532 KB, against JPG 77 KB, 208 KB and 358 KB. PNG was 1.5 to 1.75 times the size.
- A Letter page filled by a photograph: PNG 532 KB, 1.1 MB and 1.8 MB, against JPG 46 KB, 132 KB and 248 KB. PNG was seven to twelve times the size.
What a PNG from a PDF page does not have
Pages are drawn on white, so the PNG has no transparent background, even where the PDF page has nothing on it. Cutting out a logo needs an image editor afterwards.
The words become pixels. You cannot select or search them in the PNG; Extract text from PDF gets the words out as text instead. Links stop working too, since a picture cannot hold them.
Each page is its own file, named from the PDF and the page number, so report.pdf gives report-1.png, report-2.png and so on. The Result file names section changes that pattern.
Frequently asked questions
For text, charts, diagrams and slides, yes: PNG keeps edges perfectly clean. For photographs, JPG looks the same and is many times smaller; a photo page was 1.1 MB as PNG and 132 KB as JPG at Medium.
PNG never throws detail away, so it cannot shrink as far. Even a plain text page came out 1.5 to 1.75 times the size of the JPG.
No. Every page is drawn on white before it is saved, so empty areas of the page come out white rather than clear.
Large, 220 dpi: 1870 by 2420 pixels for a Letter page and 1821 by 2575 for A4. Higher settings such as 300 dpi are not offered.
Yes. Click Select none, tick the page you want, and convert. A single page downloads as a plain PNG file without a ZIP.
No. The page is turned into pixels, so the text is part of the picture. Use Extract text from PDF if you need the words themselves.
Yes. The Image format menu offers all three, and the button’s label follows your choice, reading Convert to JPG or Convert to TIFF once you pick one of those.
No. Each page is drawn and encoded as a PNG by the code running in this tab. The PDF and the images stay on your device.
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