Are my PDF files uploaded anywhere?

No. This conversion runs entirely inside your browser, so the file never leaves your device. You can confirm it yourself: open the network tab of your browser's developer tools and watch that nothing is sent while the file converts.

What happens if my PDF has several pages?

You get an image of the first page. A JPG holds one picture and a PDF holds a sequence, so something has to give, and the first page is what almost everyone means by "an image of this PDF". Extracting every page as a separate file is a PDF tool rather than a conversion, and it is on the list.

How do I get a high-quality JPG from a PDF?

A PDF has no resolution of its own — it describes shapes and letters rather than pixels — so the page is drawn at a size we choose. The default is generous enough to read comfortably on a screen. If you need it for print, raise the width in the settings and convert again; you are redrawing the page, not enlarging an image.

Can I get the text back out of the JPG?

Not from the image, no. Once a page is a JPG the words are pixels. If you need the text, copy it from the PDF directly in a reader — it is still text in there until this conversion turns it into a picture.

Why is my scanned PDF blurry?

Because a scanned PDF is already a photograph of paper wrapped in a document. This conversion draws that photograph at the size you asked for, and drawing a low-resolution scan larger does not add detail. The result can only be as good as what was scanned.

Should I convert to PNG instead?

For a page of text, yes, and noticeably. JPG smudges the edges of letters, which is exactly what a page is made of. Choose PNG unless the page is mostly a photograph.

PDFtoJPG

Convert PDF to JPG

Up to 3 files at once, 100 with Pro. Mixed formats are fine.

Converting PDF to JPG draws the first page of your document as an image, at whatever size you ask for — a PDF stores instructions rather than pixels, so a larger width is redrawn rather than stretched. It runs in your browser, free. If the page is mostly text, convert it to PNG instead: JPG blurs the edges of letters.

Why anyone converts a PDF into an image

The reason is almost never about the document. It is about somewhere that will not take one. A slide deck that wants an image, a social post, a chat app, a website form, a ticket where someone needs to see the invoice rather than open it. The PDF is fine; it simply cannot go where you are trying to put it.

What happens to a multi-page PDF

This conversion gives you the first page. That is what almost everyone means — a preview, a cover, a one-page letter — and it avoids the alternative of quietly handing you twelve files you did not ask for.

If you genuinely need every page as a separate image, that is a PDF tool rather than a format conversion, and it is not built yet. Saying so is more useful than pretending.

Choosing the resolution: a PDF has none of its own

This works differently from every other conversion here. A PDF stores instructions — a line from here to there, this glyph at that position — which can be drawn at any size without ever becoming blocky. So converting to an image means choosing how large to draw it, and the default is set to be comfortably readable on screen.

If the picture is going into a printed document, raise the width in the settings and convert again. You are not enlarging anything; you are redrawing it, so the result is exactly as sharp at 3000 pixels as at 800.

The exception: scanned PDFs really are blurry

A scanned PDF is not a document at all — it is a photograph of paper in a document wrapper — and it does have a fixed resolution, the one it was scanned at. Drawing it larger stretches the photograph and adds nothing. If your scan looks soft at full size, the detail was never there, and no setting on this page will recover it.

For a page of text, PNG is the better target

It is worth a moment before you commit to JPG. A page is mostly text, and JPG compression is built for photographs — it smears the boundary between black letters and white paper, which shows as a faint fuzz around every word. On a page of prose the difference between JPG and PNG is obvious at a glance. Choose JPG when the page is dominated by a photograph, and PNG when it is dominated by words.

And the text itself: once the page is an image, the words are pixels. They cannot be searched, selected or copied. If somebody needs the text rather than the look of the page, open the PDF in any reader and copy it out — it is still text in there right up until this conversion turns it into a picture.

How to turn a PDF page into a JPG image

Drop your PDF onto this page, or click to choose one.
The first page is drawn as an image.
Download the JPG, or raise the width in the settings if it is going to print.

PDF vs JPG: a sequence of pages against one picture

PDF compared with JPG
	PDF	JPG
Full name	Portable Document Format	JPEG Image
File extension	.pdf	.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe
Media type	application/pdf	image/jpeg
Compression	Either, depending on the setting	Lossy — file size is bought with quality

Quality: The result is a close reconstruction rather than an exact copy. Check it before relying on it.
Where it runs: This conversion is not available yet. The page describes what it will do once the engine ships.
What can be lost: The result is an image. Text in it is no longer selectable or searchable.

PDF to JPG: pages, resolution and text

Are my PDF files uploaded anywhere?: No. This conversion runs entirely inside your browser, so the file never leaves your device. You can confirm it yourself: open the network tab of your browser's developer tools and watch that nothing is sent while the file converts.
What happens if my PDF has several pages?: You get an image of the first page. A JPG holds one picture and a PDF holds a sequence, so something has to give, and the first page is what almost everyone means by "an image of this PDF". Extracting every page as a separate file is a PDF tool rather than a conversion, and it is on the list.
How do I get a high-quality JPG from a PDF?: A PDF has no resolution of its own — it describes shapes and letters rather than pixels — so the page is drawn at a size we choose. The default is generous enough to read comfortably on a screen. If you need it for print, raise the width in the settings and convert again; you are redrawing the page, not enlarging an image.
Can I get the text back out of the JPG?: Not from the image, no. Once a page is a JPG the words are pixels. If you need the text, copy it from the PDF directly in a reader — it is still text in there until this conversion turns it into a picture.
Why is my scanned PDF blurry?: Because a scanned PDF is already a photograph of paper wrapped in a document. This conversion draws that photograph at the size you asked for, and drawing a low-resolution scan larger does not add detail. The result can only be as good as what was scanned.
Should I convert to PNG instead?: For a page of text, yes, and noticeably. JPG smudges the edges of letters, which is exactly what a page is made of. Choose PNG unless the page is mostly a photograph.