Convert PDF to PNG in your browser
Every page rendered as a lossless image, at a resolution you choose. A multi page document comes back as a ZIP. Nothing leaves this tab.
or browse your device. Everything is processed on this device
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Rendering a page turns its text into pixels. Reading the text layer instead gets every character exactly, and takes no time at all.
Extract the text insteadHow to convert PDF to PNG
It is opened and rendered in this tab by your own browser. There is no upload endpoint in this site for it to go to.
This is the only thing that decides the pixel size of the result, because the page itself has none. 150 DPI suits almost everything.
A one page PDF gives you one PNG. Anything longer gives you a ZIP with one numbered PNG per page, in order.
Why PNG rather than JPG, and why the file gets bigger
A PDF page is usually text, tables, lines and flat fills. That is the worst possible input for JPG, which works by discarding fine colour detail and puts a visible halo around every letter and a mottle across every flat area. PNG stores each pixel exactly, so a rendered page looks like the page. If your document is a full bleed photograph rather than a document, the JPG converter is the better tool and will produce a far smaller file.
The size usually goes up, often a lot, and that is the conversion working rather than failing. A PDF stores a page as instructions: draw this text in this font at this position. That is astonishingly compact. A PNG of the same page stores several million individual pixels. A crisp 300 DPI PNG of one A4 page can easily be larger than the entire PDF it came from.
The other thing you lose is everything that made it a document. The text in a PNG cannot be selected, searched or copied, links do not work, and a screen reader has nothing to read. That is fine when you want a picture of a page and a genuine problem when you wanted the page. If the words are what you are after, extracting the text layer is a different tool and a perfect one.
PDF to PNG FAQ
What happens with a multi page PDF?
Every page is rendered and you get a ZIP containing one numbered PNG per page, in order, named after the document. Nothing is silently dropped. Very long documents stop at 100 pages, because rendering more than that in a browser tab is not something it will survive, and the result says so when it happens.
What resolution should I pick?
150 DPI for almost everything: it is sharp on screen, prints acceptably, and keeps the files manageable. Drop to 96 if these are going into a web page or a slide, where anything more is wasted weight. Choose 300 only for print you will be judged on, because it makes the file roughly four times larger than 150 does.
Why is the PNG bigger than the whole PDF?
Because a PDF describes a page and a PNG stores it. The document says "draw this sentence in this font here", which is a few hundred bytes; the image stores every one of the several million pixels that sentence turns into. This is normal, and choosing a lower resolution is the way to bring it down.
Can I still select the text afterwards?
No. The output is a picture of the page, so the words in it are shapes rather than text: nothing can select, search, copy or read them aloud. If you need the words, use the PDF to text tool instead, which reads the text layer directly and gets it exactly right.
Does it keep transparency?
No, and deliberately. PDF pages are technically transparent where they look white, so rendering one without a background would give you a PNG that appears to have a hole in it against a dark page. Every page is drawn onto white first, which is what the page looks like when you open it.
Are my PDF files uploaded to convert them?
No. The PDF is decoded and the PNG is written by your own browser, in this tab. There is no upload endpoint in the site for a file to go to, which you can check in your network tools: convert something and watch that no request carries it. Disconnect from the network after the page loads and it still works.
Does this remove EXIF, GPS and AI metadata?
Yes, every time, and there is no way to turn it off. Each page is drawn onto a canvas and saved from what was drawn, so the document around it is not carried across, so EXIF and GPS, the XMP packet, embedded colour profiles, and any Content Credentials or AI-generation tags the file arrived with do not survive. There is no switch for this, because there is no way to keep them. What no compressor can remove is a watermark written into the pixels themselves, such as the invisible marks some image generators add: those survive re-encoding here and everywhere else.
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Same format joins the queue. Anything else re-routes to its own tool.