Sometimes you need a PDF page as an image — for a presentation, a social media post, a website, or a system that accepts images but not PDFs. Here's how to convert.
PDF to JPG
Go to pdfmerger.io/pdf-to-jpg. Upload your PDF. Click Convert. Every page becomes a separate JPG image, packaged into a ZIP file for download.
Pages are rendered at 2x scale — around 200 DPI. For a standard 8.5x11 inch page, that's roughly 1700x2200 pixels. That's sharp enough for screen use and standard printing.
PDF to PNG
Same process at pdfmerger.io/pdf-to-png, but PNG output. PNG is lossless — every pixel is preserved exactly. This matters for text and line art, where JPG compression can introduce subtle softness around high-contrast edges.
The trade-off is file size. A typical PDF page might produce a 300KB JPG and a 2MB PNG. For sharing on screen, JPG is fine. For design work where quality is critical, PNG is the safer choice.
Do you only need one page?
The tool converts the whole PDF. If you only need one specific page, use the split tool first to extract that page as a single-page PDF, then convert it to an image. It's an extra step but much cleaner than digging through a ZIP of 40 images.
How complex layouts render
The conversion renders each page exactly as it appears in a PDF viewer — columns, tables, headers, footers, images all render correctly. What you see on screen is what you get in the image. There's no reflow or reformatting.
Quick tip
If you need the image for a Word document or presentation, JPG is usually the right choice — smaller file size and it embeds cleanly. Use PNG only when you need to zoom in close and the text still needs to look sharp.