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PDF to PNG
Every page as a lossless image. Free, no sign-up.
Converting PDF to PNG renders every page as a lossless image at the width you pick, one file per page. There is no quality setting, because PNG has no lossy mode. The text stops being text: what you get is a picture. It is free and runs entirely in your browser.
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How to convert PDF to PNG
Each page is rendered to a PNG at the width you choose, and you get one image file per page — lossless, with no compression artefacts anywhere.
- Select your PDF. Click the button or drag the file onto the page. It stays on your computer.
- Choose a resolution. Screen, Standard or High. The number is a width in pixels; each page keeps its own proportions, so the height follows from the page shape.
- Convert and download. One PNG per page, named after the document and numbered in order.
Lossless, and what that costs
PNG stores exactly the pixels the renderer produced. Run the same page through this tool twice at the same width and you get two byte-identical files; enlarge the result and you see the pixels rather than the smearing that JPEG leaves around high-contrast edges. That property is the whole reason to choose this page over PDF to JPG, and it is why there is no quality control here: lossless has no dial.
The cost is size. A photographic page is often several times larger as a PNG than as a JPEG of the same width, and nothing about it looks better, because a photograph has no hard edges for JPEG to damage. The rule that holds up in practice: text, line art, diagrams, screenshots and flat colour go to PNG; photographs go to JPG. A scanned document is the awkward middle case — it is a photograph of text, and which one wins depends on whether you care more about the letter edges or the file size.
What the resolution setting actually sets
The three options are pixel widths, not dpi. Each page is rendered to that width and keeps its own proportions, so the height falls out of the page shape rather than being set. That matters because dpi is meaningless without a page size: 1240 pixels across A4 is about 150 dpi, and the same 1240 pixels across A2 is about half that. If you have a target dpi, work back from the page width in inches and pick the option that clears it.
Every page in the document is rendered — there is no page-range control on this tool. For one page out of two hundred, Extract pages first and convert the result, which is faster and saves you deleting a hundred and ninety-nine files. Output is one image per page, named after the document with a zero-padded number, so they sort correctly in a file manager and in any script that globs them.
The text stops being text
This is the part people discover afterwards. A PNG is pixels: the words in it can be read by a person and by nothing else. Search will not find them, a screen reader cannot announce them, and copying gives you nothing. If the reason you are here is that you wanted the content rather than the picture, there are better doors — PDF to Text for the plain words, PDF to Word for an editable document, PDF to Markdown for something to paste into notes.
If you genuinely need images and searchability, the order is: export here, rebuild them into a PDF with JPG to PDF, then run OCR PDF to put a recognised text layer back underneath. That is a real workflow with a real use — it is how a page with unextractable text gets made searchable — but recognise it as a rebuild rather than a round trip: the text you get at the end is what OCR read, not what the original file contained.
PDF to PNG: common questions
Why is there no quality slider?
Because PNG is lossless: there is no quality to trade away. A slider that changed nothing would be a lie told in the interface. The only thing that changes the output here is the resolution, and that is a width in pixels rather than a compression level.
Should I use PNG or JPG?
PNG for anything with text, line art, screenshots, diagrams or flat colour — JPEG compression smears exactly those edges, and at small sizes that is what you notice first. PDF to JPG for photographic pages, where JPEG is several times smaller and you cannot see the difference. If in doubt, and file size does not matter, PNG is the safe answer.
The text is no longer selectable. Can I get it back?
Not from the image — a PNG has no text in it, only pixels that look like text. If you wanted the words rather than the picture, PDF to Text pulls them out as plain text and PDF to Word rebuilds an editable document. To make an image searchable again you would have to run OCR PDF over it.
What do the three resolutions mean in dpi?
They are pixel widths, not dpi, because dpi only means something once you know the page size. On A4, Screen (900px) is roughly 110 dpi, Standard (1240px) is about 150, and High (2000px) is about 240. On a larger sheet the same pixel width gives you proportionally less.
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.