Updated October 14, 2026. Written for PdfCraft 0.7.1 (what changed since).
Turn every page into a JPG
- Open the editor at pdfcraft.run/editor and drag the PDF onto the window. A password-protected PDF asks for its password first.
- Start Export to image. Press Ctrl/⌘+K and type "export to image", or pick Export a PDF in the All tools list and choose Image.
- Set Format to JPEG and choose a Resolution in pixels per inch (the table below helps). Set Quality: higher keeps text edges cleaner and makes bigger files.
- Click Export. PdfCraft writes one file per page, named after the document, and your browser saves each one to your Downloads folder. A 20-page PDF gives you 20 downloads.
Nothing goes through a server along the way. The app reads the PDF inside the tab, draws each page, encodes the image and passes it to your browser's own download. That makes it a reasonable choice for payslips, passports and medical letters that a website wants "as a JPG".
Which resolution to pick
Pixels per inch decides the size of the image: each side of the page in inches, times the resolution. A US Letter page is 8.5 × 11 inches and an A4 page is 8.27 × 11.69 inches, so the numbers work out like this:
| Resolution | Letter page | A4 page | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72 ppi | 612 × 792 px | 595 × 842 px | Thumbnails, a preview in a chat |
| 150 ppi | 1275 × 1650 px | 1240 × 1754 px | Reading on screen, upload forms, slides |
| 200 ppi | 1700 × 2200 px | 1654 × 2339 px | Small print and fine tables that must stay legible |
| 300 ppi | 2550 × 3300 px | 2480 × 3508 px | Printing the image, zooming into detail |
Start at 150. It is already sharp on a phone or laptop screen, and every step up makes the files bigger. Go higher only when someone will print the image or read footnotes on it.
JPG, PNG or TIFF for a page
The same dialog offers PNG and TIFF, and for many PDFs one of them is the better file. JPEG compression is built for photographs: it throws away fine detail the eye misses in a photo, but around black text on white it leaves faint smudges, and they get worse at lower quality settings. PNG keeps every pixel exactly, so text pages come out crisp, often at a similar or smaller size than a high-quality JPG.
- JPEG for scanned pages, photos, brochures and anything where the destination insists on .jpg.
- PNG for text documents, forms, spreadsheets and diagrams, or when you'll paste the page into a slide or a document.
- TIFF when a print shop or an archive asks for it.
Pull out the photos instead
A page export redraws the whole page, text and margins included, and saves it in a new image. If you only need the pictures in the PDF (product shots in a catalogue, photos in a report), Export all images is the better tool. It saves each image once, named after the document and the page it came from. JPEG images are written out unchanged, byte for byte, so there is no second round of compression. Images with transparency, such as cut-out product photos, come out as PNG with the transparent background kept. Use Exclude images smaller than to skip icons and logos.
Some image types inside PDFs can't be exported yet: JPEG 2000, JBIG2 and CCITT fax images, which turn up mostly in scanned archives. For those pages, Export to image still works.
Only some pages
To convert three pages out of forty, the simple route is to copy them into their own PDF first with Menu › Pages › Extract pages…, then export that. The merge and split guide covers extracting and splitting.
When an upload form rejects the image
The file is too big. Export again at a lower resolution before lowering the quality. Halving the resolution, from 300 to 150 ppi, leaves a quarter of the pixels, which shrinks the file far more than a small quality change does.
The form sets a maximum size in pixels. Divide that number by the page's longer side in inches. A limit of 2000 pixels on a Letter page means 2000 ÷ 11, about 180 ppi; on A4 it is 2000 ÷ 11.69, about 170 ppi. Use that resolution or the nearest one below it.
Going the other way: JPG to PDF
Drop a JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP or JPEG 2000 file on the editor and it opens as a PDF, ready to save. To put several photos into one PDF, open them all, then combine them with Combine files and its Add open documents button.
On a Mac, for a single page
Preview can do a quick one-off. Open the PDF, choose File › Export, set Format to JPEG and adjust the quality slider. That suits a one-page PDF. For a multi-page document with a set resolution for every page, PdfCraft does it in one pass; the Mac editing guide compares the two in more detail.
Before you send the images, open one at full size and read the smallest text on it. If it is soft, export again at 200 ppi or switch that document to PNG.