Convert PDF to PNG without sending the file anywhere
This PDF to PNG converter draws each page of your PDF as an image, right in your browser. You get one PNG for each page, at the resolution you choose. The PDF is never sent to our servers, so it suits statements, tickets and anything personal.
There is no sign-up, no watermark on the images and no daily limit. iLovePDF, Smallpdf, Sejda, PDF24 and Adobe Acrobat online all convert on their servers, and several cap free use: Smallpdf at 2 tasks a day, Sejda at 3 an hour.
How to convert a PDF to PNG
- Add your PDF by dropping it on the tool or picking it from your device.
- Choose a resolution: 72, 150 or 300 DPI.
- Convert. Each page becomes its own image.
- Download a single PNG, or a ZIP with every page.
Which resolution to pick
- 72 DPI: small files for quick previews and thumbnails.
- 150 DPI: a good default for reading on screen, chats and slides.
- 300 DPI: print quality, and sharp when you zoom in on small text.
- Higher DPI means bigger files and more work for your device, so long PDFs at 300 DPI can be slow on a phone.
Why PNG, and when to use it
PNG is lossless, so text, lines and diagrams keep clean edges with no compression artefacts. It is a good choice for pages you will crop, annotate or put in documentation.
PNG files are larger than JPG, especially at 300 DPI. If you need small files for sharing, use PDF to JPG instead.
PNG is the better choice when the page will be looked at closely: a diagram in a manual, a chart for a report, a slide you will annotate, or a page going into documentation or a help article.
It is also useful for upload forms that accept images but not PDFs, and for design work where you want clean lines to crop or trace.
If you only need one page from a long file, convert the whole PDF and keep the image you need from the ZIP, or extract that page first with Split PDF.
On a phone, the ZIP of all pages lands in your downloads. iPhone and Android both open ZIP files from the Files app, or you can convert a single page to skip the ZIP and save the image straight away.
Need text rather than a picture?
Converting to images does not make the text editable. Converting PDF to Word or searchable PDF with OCR is not available yet. If you only need the words from one page, convert it to an image and run it through Screenshot to text, which reads text from images.
