PDF to Images

Turn PDF pages into image files

Sometimes a PDF just isn't the format you need. Maybe you're dropping a page into a slide deck, posting a scanned form on a forum, or building a thumbnail for a document library. PDFLocal takes each page of your PDF and renders it as a standalone image — PNG, JPEG, or WebP — right in your browser. No conversion queue, no email confirmation, no watching a progress bar tick up on someone else's server.

Under the hood it's using PDF.js to draw each page onto a canvas at the resolution you pick, then encoding that canvas into whichever format you've chosen. A 40-page contract and a single-page receipt take roughly the same amount of setup — the only real variable is how long your machine takes to render the pages, which for most documents is a couple of seconds.

How it works

1. Drop in a PDF, or click to browse for one.
2. Pick a format. PNG if you want crisp text and don't mind a bigger file, JPEG or WebP if you'd rather keep things small.
3. Set the resolution — 72 dpi is fine for a quick preview, 288 dpi if you're printing or zooming in on fine detail.
4. If you went with JPEG or WebP, drag the quality slider until the file size and the sharpness feel right.
5. Hit convert. Grab individual pages one at a time, or download everything at once as a ZIP.

Choosing between PNG, JPEG, and WebP

PNG is the safe default for anything with text, diagrams, or thin lines — it doesn't introduce compression artifacts, so small fonts stay legible. The tradeoff is file size: a text-heavy page can end up several times larger as a PNG than the same page saved as JPEG.

JPEG works well for pages that are more photo-like — scanned documents with shading, or pages with embedded photographs — and it compresses down to something you can actually email without splitting into parts. WebP sits in between: modern browsers support it natively, and at equivalent quality it's typically smaller than a comparable JPEG. If you're not sure, start with PNG for anything you'll read closely, and JPEG or WebP for anything you're mainly archiving or sharing.

Does the file ever leave my computer?

No — and this isn't a policy promise, it's just how the tool is built. The PDF is loaded into your browser's memory and rendered there with PDF.js; there's no upload step for us to intercept even if we wanted to. That matters if you're converting something like a signed lease, a payslip, or medical paperwork where you'd rather not hand a copy to a third-party server just to change the file format.

Common questions