PDF to PNG
Upload a PDF to convert each page to a PNG image.
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Max 20 MB total
About converting PDF pages to PNG
PNG is the format to reach for when the page you are rasterising is made of text, diagrams or line art. Its compression is lossless, so a rendered page has no encoding artefacts at all — letterforms keep hard edges, thin rules stay crisp, and flat areas of colour stay perfectly flat. Screenshots of documentation, exported charts and slides full of type all reproduce more cleanly as PNG than as JPG.
The trade-off is size. Lossless compression works by finding exact repetition, which is abundant in a page of black text on white and scarce in a photograph. A photo-heavy page can produce a PNG several times larger than the equivalent JPG with no visible benefit. Pages are rendered at 150 DPI, the same as the JPG conversion, so the difference between the two formats is compression rather than detail.
How to convert a PDF to PNG
- 1Upload your PDF.
- 2Start the conversion to render each page losslessly.
- 3Download the ZIP archive.
- 4Extract it to get the numbered PNG files.
Limits and technical details
- Accepts a single .pdf file up to 50 MB
- Rendered at 150 DPI with lossless PNG compression
- One PNG per page, delivered as a .zip archive
- Pages render on a solid background, not a transparent one
Frequently asked questions
- Will the PNGs have transparent backgrounds?
- No. PDF pages have an opaque page surface, so the rendered PNG carries a solid background even though the format supports transparency. Removing the background is an image-editing step afterwards.
- Why are my PNG files so much bigger than JPGs?
- Lossless compression keeps every pixel exactly as rendered rather than approximating it. On text and line art the penalty is modest and the quality gain is obvious; on photographs the files grow considerably for no visible improvement, which is where JPG is the better choice.
- Is PNG better than JPG for this?
- For text, charts, logos and diagrams, yes — noticeably so, since JPEG artefacts cluster around exactly the high-contrast edges those pages are made of. For scanned photographs, JPG gives you a far smaller file at effectively the same quality.
- Can I get a higher resolution than 150 DPI?
- Not from this tool — the render resolution is fixed. For print-quality raster output you would need a dedicated PDF renderer where the DPI can be set explicitly.