PDF→JPG — Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, every tool is free to use with no watermark and no account required.

JPG for photos and scans, PNG for text and diagrams, TIFF for OCR and archiving. Each has a dedicated tool here.

Files are processed in an isolated workspace and removed automatically shortly after you download. We do not share or index your documents.

JPG is a lossy format, but at the quality level we use (90/100) the loss is imperceptible for normal viewing and printing. The bigger factor is DPI: we render at 150 DPI, which is sharp enough for screens and everyday printing. For archival or large-format work, a lossless PDF-to-PNG export keeps every pixel exact.

Yes. Every page becomes its own numbered JPG (…-page-001.jpg, …-page-002.jpg) and the whole set is bundled into a single ZIP so you can download them in one click.

No watermark, ever. The tool is free and there is no hard page cap for typical documents; very large files are limited only by the 50 MB upload size.

Yes. We render from the PDF's own vector and font data, so embedded fonts, line art, and colour are reproduced faithfully — exactly as a desktop viewer would display the page.

No. The converter runs entirely in your browser-to-server round trip. There is no software to install and no account to create.

For text, diagrams, and line art, yes — PNG is lossless and keeps edges razor-sharp. For photographs and scans, JPG looks identical to most eyes at a fraction of the size.

PNG uses lossless compression, so it cannot discard detail the way JPG does. That is what keeps it crisp, but it also makes photo-heavy pages much bigger. Use JPG for photos and PNG for graphics.

Pages render on a white background by default. PNG's alpha channel means you can edit in transparency afterwards, which is why designers prefer it for compositing work.

Each page is rendered at 150 DPI, sharp enough for on-screen use and light printing. Because we rasterise from the PDF's own vector data, text and line art stay crisp rather than jagged.

Pages follow the order you upload the files. If the sequence matters, name your images so they sort correctly or add them one at a time in the order you want them to appear.

Yes. Each page takes the dimensions of its source image, so a landscape receipt and a portrait letter can sit in the same document. They simply render at their own orientation rather than being forced to match.

There is no fixed page cap for typical use. The practical limit is the 50 MB total upload size, so very large numbers of high-resolution photos may need to be split across two documents or compressed first.

Photos are embedded at quality 90, which keeps them visually identical to the originals while keeping the PDF a sensible size. The file is essentially a container wrapped around your images rather than a fresh lossy re-encode.

TIFF is lossless, so the edges of every character stay sharp. JPG compression adds faint halos around high-contrast text, which lowers OCR accuracy on small fonts and tightly packed tables. For machine reading, the lossless master wins.

Pages render at 200 DPI by default. That is the widely accepted minimum for dependable OCR and high-quality document archiving, comfortably above the 150 DPI used for on-screen JPG previews.

Yes, because lossless compression cannot discard detail the way JPG does. That size is the price of fidelity. Keep the TIFF as your archival master and generate a smaller JPG or compressed PDF for everyday sharing.

TIFF opens in most image viewers and document tools on Windows and macOS, and in professional software like Photoshop. Some lightweight gallery apps skip it, so for casual viewing a JPG export is the friendlier choice.

This compressor works by re-rendering page images at a lighter resolution, so it saves the most on scan-heavy and image-heavy PDFs. A document that is mostly selectable text has very little image data to optimise, so the size stays roughly the same.

Yes. The 110 DPI target keeps body text comfortably legible on screen while removing the surplus resolution that makes scans so heavy. For fine print you intend to enlarge heavily, keep a higher-quality copy as well.

No. Each page is re-rendered in place, so the page count, order, and layout stay exactly as they were. Only the per-page image resolution and quality are reduced.

Scan-based PDFs typically drop by 50 to 80 percent. The exact figure depends on how high the original scan resolution was, since the savings come from trimming resolution you cannot perceive on a screen.