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PDF to PNG

Export PDF pages as PNG images. Lossless, sharp at any resolution, and able to keep a transparent background.

Files never leave your device

How to use PDF to PNG

  1. 1Add your PDF.
  2. 2Choose a resolution and decide whether you want a white or transparent background.
  3. 3Press Convert.
  4. 4Download individual pages or all of them as a ZIP.

How it works

Pages are rendered onto a canvas and encoded as PNG, which stores pixels losslessly. That makes PNG the better choice when a page contains line art, diagrams, screenshots or crisp text, where JPEG compression would blur edges.

Leaving the background transparent skips the usual white fill, so anything the PDF does not draw stays clear. This is useful for logos and diagrams you want to place on a coloured background. Note that most PDFs paint a white page rectangle themselves, in which case the result will still look white.

The file is read into your browser's memory, changed there, and handed straight back to you. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no queue and no copy sitting on a server afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

Should I use PNG or JPG?
PNG for text, diagrams, screenshots and anything with hard edges. JPG for photographic pages, where it produces much smaller files at similar visible quality.
Why is my transparent PNG still white?
Many PDFs explicitly draw a white background rectangle as part of the page. Transparency only shows through where the document itself draws nothing.
Are PNG files bigger than JPGs?
Usually yes, often several times bigger, because nothing is discarded. That is the trade-off for lossless quality.

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