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Ameen Usman
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Turn PDF pages into JPG images in your browser

A PDF page is often the wrong format for a slide, a chat message, or a blog image. Uploading the whole document just to export one page is a poor trade.

PDF to JPG does that conversion in the browser. The file stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

How to export the pages

  1. Open the PDF.
  2. Choose all pages, or enter a range such as 1-3, 5.
  3. Pick High, Medium, or Low quality.
  4. Convert, preview the pages, then download one JPG or a ZIP of all of them.

A 5-page deck on High comes back as five images. Preview them before you download the ZIP.

The limit shown on the page is 40 pages and 25 MB. A password-protected PDF has to be unlocked first.

What the JPG is

Each page becomes a flat image. Text that you could select in the PDF cannot be selected in the JPG. Use this when you need a picture. Keep the original PDF when you still need selectable text.

Where it runs

The page is drawn in the browser and saved as a JPG from there. I do not receive the file.

Tool: https://kepttools.com/pdf-to-jpg

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