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PDF to JPG
Every page of the PDF is rendered and saved as a separate JPG, packaged in one ZIP. JPEG is lossy, which is why it suits scans and photographic pages.
- Add your PDF
- Choose resolution
- Download
Choose resolution and quality
Pick a resolution, then convert.
Conversion complete
Your JPGs are ready
Every page is a separate JPG inside one ZIP. The file stays available in this tab until you convert another PDF or leave the page.
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Check it yourself in DevTools — the method, in five steps.
How to Convert PDF to JPG Online — 4 Easy Steps
- Add a PDFChoose one PDF up to 50 MiB and 1,000 pages.
- Pick a resolution1× renders at 96 DPI, which suits screens and messaging. 2× renders at 192 DPI for print or close inspection, at four times the pixel count.
- Set the qualityLeave it at 85 for scans and photo pages. Raise it toward 95 when the page is mostly small text.
- Convert and check one pageDownload the ZIP, open the busiest page at 100%, and look at the edges of the smallest text before you send the set on.
Understand the output
What This Tool Produces
- One JPG per PDF page
- A quality setting from 40 to 100
- 96 or 192 DPI rendering
- A ZIP with source-based page filenames
Controls and Method
Quality
Controls the JPEG encoder directly. 100 is not lossless — it is simply the least lossy setting JPEG offers, and it can produce files larger than the PNG equivalent.
Resolution
2× doubles width and height, so a Letter page goes from roughly 816 × 1056 pixels to 1632 × 2112. That is four times the pixels and four times the memory while rendering.
No transparency option
JPEG has no alpha channel. Pages render onto opaque white, which is what a printed page looks like anyway.
When JPG Is the Right Choice, and When It Is Not
JPEG was designed for continuous-tone images: photographs, scans of printed pages, anything where colour varies smoothly across the frame. On that kind of page it is dramatically more efficient than a lossless format, because the detail it throws away is high-frequency noise nobody was looking at. A scanned invoice or a photographed contract is exactly this case.
Pages built from vector line art — charts, CAD drawings, logos, screenshots of software, anything with large flat colour areas and hard edges — are the opposite case, and exporting them as PNG is usually both sharper and smaller. If you only wanted a smaller document rather than pictures, compressing the PDF directly keeps a PDF at the end of it.
Choosing a Quality, With Real Numbers
A single Letter-size page of a scanned typed letter, rendered at 1× (816 × 1056 pixels), lands in roughly these ranges. Exact bytes depend on how busy the page is, so treat these as the shape of the curve rather than a promise.
The pattern worth internalising: the drop from 100 to 90 costs almost nothing visually and saves more than half the file. The drop from 70 to 50 saves comparatively little and is where text starts to look chewed. There is very little reason to sit below 70 on a page containing words.
| Quality | Typical size | What you see |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | ~700 KB | No visible loss, and often larger than the same page as PNG |
| 95 | ~320 KB | Indistinguishable from 100 on screen; safe for small text |
| 85 (default) | ~180 KB | Faint softening at glyph edges under magnification |
| 70 | ~110 KB | Visible haze around small text; fine for photo pages |
| 50 | ~75 KB | Blocking on flat areas, halos around every letter |
Why Text Is Where JPEG Shows Its Seams
JPEG compresses in 8 × 8 pixel blocks. At 96 DPI a 10-point letter is only about 13 pixels tall, so a single character spans two blocks and its sharp black-to-white edge is precisely the high-frequency signal the encoder is designed to discard. The result is "ringing": a faint grey halo that follows the outline of each glyph.
This is why the quality advice differs from the usual photography advice. On a holiday photo, 75 is generous. On a page of 9-point body text, 75 is where the page starts to look like a bad fax. If the document is mostly words, either raise the quality to 95 or use the PNG route instead.
What a JPG Cannot Carry Out of the PDF
A JPG holds pixels and nothing else. Everything the PDF knew about its own contents is left behind at the moment of rendering.
- Text stops being text. It cannot be selected, searched, copied, or read aloud by a screen reader. No OCR is applied.
- Hyperlinks, buttons, form fields, comments, and bookmarks are flattened into their visual appearance.
- Tagged-PDF accessibility structure — headings, reading order, alt text — is lost entirely.
- Any digital signature is meaningless on an image; keep the signed PDF if the signature matters.
- Transparency cannot survive: JPEG has no alpha channel, so anything see-through composites onto white.
Practical Uses
- Send one page of a contract in a chat app that will not accept PDFs.
- Drop a scanned page into a slide deck without embedding the whole document.
- Produce lightweight page thumbnails for a listing or index.
- Attach a photographed receipt page to an expense form that only takes images.
- Get a page into an image editor when the original document is not available.
Important Limitations
- JPEG is lossy at every quality setting, including 100. Re-exporting an already-exported page compounds the damage.
- Pages that are mostly small text or line art will look worse and often weigh more than the PNG equivalent.
- No OCR runs, so the output is never searchable or accessible text.
- Every page image is held in memory until the ZIP finishes, so very long documents can exhaust a phone browser.
- Encrypted or password-protected PDFs are rejected rather than unlocked.
- Embedded colour profiles are not carried into the JPGs, so wide-gamut documents can shift slightly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is my JPG bigger than I expected?
Almost always because the page is line art or text rather than a photograph. JPEG spends bytes encoding sharp edges badly. Try the PNG export and compare — on a chart or a screenshot, PNG is frequently both smaller and cleaner.
Does quality 100 mean lossless?
No. 100 is the least lossy setting JPEG offers, not a lossless mode. The colour-space conversion alone discards information. If you need the exact rendered pixels, use PDF to PNG.
What quality should I use for a scanned document?
Start at 85. If the scan contains handwriting or type smaller than about 9 point, move to 95 — the file roughly doubles but the letter edges stay clean.
Can I convert just one page instead of all of them?
Not directly. Extract the page first with the PDF splitter, then run the single-page PDF through this tool.
Why did my transparent logo turn white?
JPEG has no transparency channel at all. Every page is rendered onto opaque white before encoding, which matches how the page would print.
Why is the download a ZIP even for a one-page PDF?
The output shape stays the same whatever the page count, so the filename and folder structure are predictable. A one-page PDF produces a ZIP containing one JPG.