PDF to PNG
Every page as a sharp picture, or just the one page you need, at the resolution you ask for. Text and lines stay exactly as crisp as the document.
- No uploads
- No sign-up
- No file limit
- No watermark
nothing was uploaded
A PDF page is not a picture, which is why resolution is a choice
A page in a PDF is a list of drawing instructions in a coordinate system measured in points, seventy-two to the inch. There are no pixels in it at all until something draws it. That is why every PDF-to-image tool has to ask you how big you want the result, and why asking for a percentage is the wrong question: an A4 page is 8.27 by 11.69 inches, so 150 dots per inch is 1,240 by 1,753 pixels and 300 is 2,480 by 3,508. This page asks in dots per inch and shows you the pixels you will get before you press anything.
The renderer is pdf.js, Mozilla's, the same engine Firefox shows PDFs with. It is served from this site as an unmodified file with its licence beside it, fetched the first time you drop a document, and it runs inside your tab. The fourteen standard fonts and the character maps are served with it, which sounds like a footnote and is not: a PDF is allowed to name Helvetica or Times without embedding them, and a document with Japanese or Chinese text needs those maps. Tools that skip them render those pages with the wrong glyphs, or with none.
Why PNG, and when not to
PNG keeps every pixel exactly. For a document that is the whole point: the letters keep their edges, a table keeps its rules, and a logo stays a logo rather than acquiring a grey mist around it. JPEG, which is what most converters give you by default, was built for photographs and spends its budget smoothing away exactly the hard edges that text is made of.
The exception is a document whose pages are photographs, where JPEG is excellent and the files are a fraction of the size. That is what PDF to JPG is for, with the quality as a slider.
The transparent background nobody else offers
The white behind a page you are reading is not usually in the file. A PDF page is a set of marks on nothing, and the reader draws paper behind them so it looks like a page. So there is a real choice here, and this page lets you make it: tick "transparent background" and the paper is left out, giving you a PNG of the text and artwork alone.
That is what you want when a page is going over something else: a letterhead on a design, a signature on a form, a diagram on a slide. Every converter that flattens onto white makes that job into a cut-out job afterwards.
Why it matters that it is not uploaded
People are careful with photographs and careless with PDFs, and it should be the other way round. The documents that get pasted into free converters are contracts, payslips, bank statements, medical letters, tenancy agreements and passports: the single most sensitive category of file most people own.
Nothing here leaves the tab, including the password of a locked document. You can check it the way you should check any site that claims this: load the page, switch the browser to offline, and convert a PDF anyway. How to check a site is not uploading your files.
The other direction
PNG to PDF goes back, losslessly, with transparency intact. JPG to PDF is the one for photographs, and image to PDF takes a mixture of formats in one document.
Guides that go further
Part of transparent pngs, explained. What each format is, when to use it, and what to do when a file will not open.
- Is it safe to upload photos to online converters and background removers?Is CloudConvert safe? Is remove.bg safe? What CloudConvert, Convertio, ezgif, remove.bg and Photoroom say about your uploads, checked 16 September 2026.
- How to check that a website is not uploading your photosHow to check if a website uploads your photos, using the network tab in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari plus an offline test. Two minutes, no tools to install.
- Photo file formats: HEIC, JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and more, explainedPhoto file formats compared: which keep transparency, which every app opens, and what to turn a HEIC, AVIF, WebP or JFIF into before you edit or share it.
- Transparent PNG: what it is, where it works, and where it failsA transparent PNG stores see-through pixels, not a checkered background. How to tell a real one, where transparency survives, and where it turns white.
Questions
How do I convert a PDF to PNG?
Drop the PDF on this page. Every page appears as a thumbnail, you tick the ones you want or type a range like 1-3, 7, choose a resolution, and save. One page comes down as a PNG and several come down as a ZIP. The document is read in your browser and never uploaded.
What resolution should I pick?
A PDF page is measured in inches, not pixels, so the honest question is dots per inch. 150 is sharp on any screen and is the default. 300 is what a printer wants. 600 is for cropping into fine detail, and 72 gives the page at its own nominal size. The pixel size each one comes to is shown beside the button, so there is no arithmetic to do.
Why PNG rather than JPG?
Because most PDFs are documents. PNG stores every pixel exactly, so text, tables, lines and logos stay crisp, while JPEG smears hard edges and leaves a grey halo around lettering. Use JPG when the pages are photographs and the file size matters more than the edges, which is what the PDF to JPG page is for.
Can I get a transparent background?
Yes, and almost nothing else offers it. A PDF page usually has no background at all: the white you see is the reader drawing paper behind it. Tick "transparent background" and the paper is left out, so you get the text and the artwork on transparency, which is what you want when a page is going to sit on top of something else.
Can I convert only one page?
Yes. Untick the rest, or type the page number in the pages box, or use the small save button on the page itself. A range like 2-5 or 1,4,9-12 works, and so does leaving the end open, as in 7-.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. The renderer is pdf.js, served from this site as an ordinary file and run inside your browser tab, so the document is read on your own device. This matters more for PDFs than for photos: contracts, payslips, medical letters and bank statements are exactly the things people paste into free converters without thinking.
Does it work on a password-protected PDF?
Yes, if you know the password. The page asks for it and uses it to open the document in your browser. The password is not sent anywhere, because there is nowhere on this site to send it to.
Is there a page limit or a file size limit?
No. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no server cost to cap. Thumbnails are drawn only as you scroll to them, so a three hundred page document opens as quickly as a three page one, and pages are rendered one at a time when you save so the tab keeps answering.
Will the text be selectable in the PNG?
No, and it cannot be. A PNG is a grid of pixels, so a picture of a page has no text in it, only the shapes of letters. That is often the point: a PNG of a page cannot be reflowed, edited or copied from. If you need the words, you need the original document or an OCR tool, neither of which this is.
Your files never leave this device
Most online converters upload every file to a server, convert it there and keep it for a while. Here your browser decodes and encodes the picture itself, so there is nowhere for the file to go. You can check it: load this page, switch the browser to offline, and convert a file. How to check a site is not uploading your photos.