Should I choose PNG or JPG?

PNG for pages of text, tables, charts, diagrams and drawings: it is lossless, so text stays razor sharp, and the background can be transparent. JPG for pages that are mostly photographs or scans: the files are much smaller and the slight softening is hard to see in a photo. Both can be picked here.

Which resolution makes a good PNG?

150 dpi suits screens, slides and chats: an A4 page comes out about 1240 × 1754 pixels. 300 dpi is for printing or zooming in (2480 × 3508 for A4), and 600 dpi for fine detail, though PNG files at that size are large. The pixel size of a page is shown before you save. A page is never drawn larger than 12,000 pixels on a side.

Why does the background look black or checkered?

Most PDFs do not paint a white page behind their text, so the PNG keeps that area transparent. A picture viewer may show transparency as a checkerboard or, in some dark-mode apps, as black. It looks right on a white page or slide; if you need a solid white background, save as JPG instead, which always puts the page on white.

Can I select or copy the text in the PNG?

No: a PNG is a picture of the page. Keep the PDF for searchable text, or to pull the words out of a picture, use the OCR Toolkit. To edit the text, PDF to Word turns it into a document.

How do I convert a PDF to PNG on an iPhone or Android phone?

Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap the box and pick the PDF from Files or Downloads. One page is saved as a PNG (on iPhone, offered to save to Files or Photos); several arrive as a ZIP, which the Files app opens. A long PDF at 300 dpi or more needs a lot of memory, so on a phone use 150 dpi or save it a few pages at a time.

Is my PDF uploaded to make the PNGs?

No. The PDF is opened and its pages drawn into PNGs in this browser tab on your device; nothing is sent to this site or anywhere else.

Stays on your computer How this works

Free PDF to PNG converter: sharp pages, no upload

Save the pages of a PDF as PNG pictures at the resolution you choose, with crisp text and a transparent background: one page, a few, or all of them in a ZIP. The PDF is drawn in your browser and not uploaded.

Drag & drop a PDF here, or browse

Tap to choose a PDF

Any size, any number of pages · nothing is uploaded

About this PDF to PNG converter

PNG is the picture format to choose when a page is mostly text, lines, charts or diagrams: it is lossless, so letters stay perfectly sharp with none of the smudgy edges JPG compression leaves, and the page background stays transparent, so the page can sit on a coloured slide or website. This page draws each page with pdf.js, the PDF engine inside Firefox, and saves it as a PNG at the resolution you pick. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.

What you can do

Convert every page of a PDF to PNG, or just the pages you pick
Choose the resolution, from 72 dpi for the screen to 300 or 600 dpi for print, and see the size in pixels before saving
Save one page as a PNG, or many as a ZIP (or straight into a folder in Chrome and Edge)
Switch to JPG for smaller files of photo-heavy pages, or to TIFF, from the same menu
Extract the pictures stored inside the PDF instead, the non-JPEG ones as PNG with their transparency
Open password-protected PDFs when you know the password
No sign-up, no watermark, no page limit

How to convert a PDF to PNG

Drop the PDF on the box, or click it to choose it. A preview of each page appears.
Tap the box and choose the PDF. A preview of each page appears.
PNG is already chosen under Save as. Pick the Resolution: 150 dpi for screens, 300 dpi for print.
Leave Pages empty for all of them, or tap the previews or type ranges such as 1-3, 8 to pick some.
Press Save. One page downloads as a PNG; several come as a ZIP, named after the PDF with the page number, such as "Report - page 03.png", so they sort in page order.

Questions

Should I choose PNG or JPG?: PNG for pages of text, tables, charts, diagrams and drawings: it is lossless, so text stays razor sharp, and the background can be transparent. JPG for pages that are mostly photographs or scans: the files are much smaller and the slight softening is hard to see in a photo. Both can be picked here.
Which resolution makes a good PNG?: 150 dpi suits screens, slides and chats: an A4 page comes out about 1240 × 1754 pixels. 300 dpi is for printing or zooming in (2480 × 3508 for A4), and 600 dpi for fine detail, though PNG files at that size are large. The pixel size of a page is shown before you save. A page is never drawn larger than 12,000 pixels on a side.
Why does the background look black or checkered?: Most PDFs do not paint a white page behind their text, so the PNG keeps that area transparent. A picture viewer may show transparency as a checkerboard or, in some dark-mode apps, as black. It looks right on a white page or slide; if you need a solid white background, save as JPG instead, which always puts the page on white.
Can I select or copy the text in the PNG?: No: a PNG is a picture of the page. Keep the PDF for searchable text, or to pull the words out of a picture, use the OCR Toolkit. To edit the text, PDF to Word turns it into a document.
How do I convert a PDF to PNG on an iPhone or Android phone?: Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap the box and pick the PDF from Files or Downloads. One page is saved as a PNG (on iPhone, offered to save to Files or Photos); several arrive as a ZIP, which the Files app opens. A long PDF at 300 dpi or more needs a lot of memory, so on a phone use 150 dpi or save it a few pages at a time.
Is my PDF uploaded to make the PNGs?: No. The PDF is opened and its pages drawn into PNGs in this browser tab on your device; nothing is sent to this site or anywhere else.

For smaller JPG files, use PDF to JPG; for a multi-page TIFF, PDF to TIFF. To go the other way, JPG to PDF puts pictures back into one PDF, and the Image Toolkit resizes, crops or compresses the PNGs.