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PDF to JPG
Export every page as an image. Free, no sign-up.
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PDF to JPG runs inside your browser — your file never reaches our servers.
How to convert PDF to JPG
Each page is rendered to an image at the resolution you choose.
- Select your PDF. Any number of pages.
- Pick format and resolution. JPG for small files, PNG when you need lossless quality.
- Download. Several pages arrive together as a zip.
Resolution, in the units you actually need
The three settings are pixel widths, not DPI, because a PDF page can be any size and a DPI figure means nothing until you know the page. Screen is 900 pixels wide, Standard 1240 and High 2000. On A4 — 8.27 inches across — that works out at about 109, 150 and 242 dpi; on US Letter, about 106, 146 and 235. Only the width is set, and the height follows the page's own proportions, so a landscape page comes out the same width as a portrait one.
Resolution cannot recover detail the page never had. A document scanned at 150 dpi and exported at High is the same pixels enlarged: a much bigger file that is no easier to read. High earns its size on vector text and line art, where re-rendering genuinely resolves more. JPGs are encoded at quality 0.92; PNG is lossless, so that setting does not apply to it.
What survives the render
Each page is drawn the way a viewer draws it: page rotation applied, annotations and highlights included, form fields showing the values saved in the file, watermarks and all. What does not survive is everything that was never visible — selectable text, links, bookmarks and form structure. The result is flat pixels, which is the point when you are dropping a page into a slide or a chat, and a loss when it is not.
Files come out as report-001.jpg, report-002.jpg and so on, zero-padded to three digits so they sort correctly in any file browser, and anything longer than one page downloads as a single zip. Every page is rendered — there is no page range — so for one page out of two hundred, extract that page first. If the real goal is a smaller PDF rather than images, Compress PDF does much the same rendering and wraps the result back into a PDF.
Questions
Which resolution should I choose?
Screen is fine for previews and email. Standard suits most uses. High is for printing or zooming in — it produces noticeably larger files and takes longer.
JPG or PNG?
JPG for photos and scans, where files stay small. PNG for pages with sharp text or line art, where JPG artefacts around edges would show.
How do I get 300 DPI images for printing?
High is the ceiling here: 2000 pixels across, which is about 242 dpi on an A4 page. True 300 dpi on A4 would need roughly 2480 pixels. The options stop there because every page is rendered in your browser's memory, and a long document at that width is where an ordinary laptop starts to struggle.
Can I turn the images back into a PDF?
Yes — JPG to PDF rebuilds them into one document, one image per page, each page sized to its image. It will be a picture of the document, though: the text layer does not come back with it, so run OCR PDF afterwards if you need to search or copy from it.
Why is the zip bigger than the PDF was?
Because a rendered image has no idea which pixels were text. A 2 MB PDF of mostly words can become tens of megabytes of PNGs, since PNG stores every pixel losslessly. Choose JPG unless you specifically need sharp edges with no compression artefacts.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. Every tool on this site runs inside your browser, using the same engine as the Folia desktop app. Your file is read from your disk into your browser’s memory, processed there, and handed back as a download. It never crosses the internet, so there is nothing for us to store, leak or hand over.
Is there a file size limit?
We impose none. The only ceiling is your own device’s memory, which differs from one computer to another — so we read what your browser reports about this machine and show the resulting limit on the page. Light tools like merge and rotate handle far more than heavy ones like OCR, which must render every page. For anything larger, Folia for Desktop has no limit at all.
Is it really free? Do I need an account?
Yes, and no. Every tool is free and unlimited, with no watermark and no sign-up. Ads pay for the site, and your own computer does the work, which costs us nothing. Signing in with a paid Folia plan simply removes the ads.