A PDF is a finished document, but sometimes you need its pages as pictures. A designer wants to drop a report page into a presentation, a teacher wants each page of a worksheet as an image for a slide, a social post needs a crisp screenshot of one page. This tool renders every page of the PDF to a PNG image and bundles them into a single ZIP file so you can download them all at once.

How to export the pages

1. Click the upload box and select your PDF.
2. Open the Resolution (DPI) menu and choose 72 DPI (fast), 108 DPI (balanced) or 144 DPI (high quality). Balanced is selected by default.
3. Press Export as Images (ZIP). A progress bar shows the pages being rendered.
4. Your browser downloads images.zip. Open it to find the files page_1.png, page_2.png and so on, numbered in page order.

What the resolution settings mean

The three choices correspond to render scales of 1, 1.5 and 2 times the page's natural size, where a PDF page is measured at 72 points per inch. In practice:

More pixels mean crisper text and larger files. A 20-page document at 144 DPI can create a noticeably large ZIP, and rendering takes longer. For a presentation shown on a projector, 108 or 144 is usually enough; for printing at full size, these values are lower than print quality, which typically needs 200 to 300 DPI, so use a dedicated tool for print work.

Using the images in slides

The tool does not create a PowerPoint file. It gives you the building blocks. To make a slide deck:

1. Unzip the download.
2. In your presentation software, create a slide with a blank layout.
3. Insert page_1.png, stretch it to the slide size and repeat for the other pages. Many programs can insert several pictures at once and place each on its own slide.

Page images are fixed pictures. You can crop them or draw on top, but the text inside cannot be edited. If you want editable text, use PDF to Text and paste the wording into slides.

PNG versus JPG

This tool always writes PNG, which keeps sharp edges and text clean, and suits documents, tables and diagrams. For photograph-heavy pages where size matters more than perfect edges, use PDF to JPG, which lets you choose JPG output. Both tools use the same rendering method, so the content looks the same.

Common uses

• Putting document pages into a slide deck or a video.
• Sharing a single page as an image in a chat app that does not accept PDFs.
• Creating previews of a brochure for a web page.
• Annotating pages in an image editor.
• Archiving pages as pictures when fonts might be missing on another machine.

Limits and cautions

• Large PDFs with many pages use a lot of browser memory. On a phone, split the file first.
• Very wide or tall pages produce correspondingly large images.
• Annotations and form fields are drawn the way the PDF viewer engine shows them. Check a sample page to confirm they look right.
• Password-protected PDFs that require a password cannot be opened.

Practical tips

1. Try one low-resolution export first to confirm that the content looks as you expect.
2. Use Extract Pages beforehand if you only need a few pages, so you avoid a huge ZIP.
3. Rename files in sequence if your slide software orders them alphabetically; names such as page_10.png can sort before page_2.png, so add leading zeros if needed.
4. Keep the ZIP until you finish the project, because exporting again takes time.

Planning file size

As a rule of thumb, a full-page PNG of a text document at 108 DPI weighs between 100 and 400 kilobytes, and at 144 DPI between 200 and 800 kilobytes, but pages with photographs or shaded backgrounds can be several times larger. A 30-page report at 144 DPI can therefore produce a ZIP of ten megabytes or more. If you need to email the result, try 72 or 108 DPI first and compare. For a talk shown on a projector, look at one exported slide on the actual screen before you commit, because projectors often hide the difference between 108 and 144.

Privacy

Rendering, packaging and zipping all happen inside your browser. The PDF is not uploaded to a server.

Frequently asked questions