PDF Converter — PDF to Images & PDF to Text

Sometimes a PDF needs to become something else: pages as images for a presentation, a post or a thumbnail, or the raw text for quoting, searching and re-using. This converter renders each page of your PDF into a crisp PNG or JPG (downloaded together as a ZIP) or pulls the text out into a plain .txt file with page markers. Rendering uses the Mozilla PDF.js engine — the same one inside Firefox — running locally in your tab. One honest caveat for the text mode: it extracts text the PDF actually contains; a scanned page is a photograph, and photographs have no text to extract (that needs OCR).

Choose a file to begin — nothing is uploaded, everything happens on your device.

How to use this tool

  1. Choose the PDF to convert.
  2. Pick the output: PNG images, JPG images, or extracted text.
  3. For images, pick the render size (150% is sharp without being huge).
  4. Click Convert and download the ZIP (or the .txt).

Worked example

Page 1 of an A4 PDF rendered at 150% becomes an 893 × 1263 px PNG — large enough to read every word when it is dropped into a document or post.

Frequently asked questions

Why is the text output empty for my scanned PDF?

A scan is a picture of a page — the PDF contains an image, not text characters, so there is nothing to extract. You would need OCR (optical character recognition) for that. The image modes still work perfectly on scans, since they simply render the page.

PNG or JPG — which should I pick?

PNG for pages with text, line art or screenshots: edges stay razor sharp, at the cost of bigger files. JPG for photo-heavy pages where smaller files matter more than pixel-perfect edges. Both are rendered from the same page at the size you choose.

What resolution do the images come out at?

It scales with the page: at 150%, an A4 page becomes about 893 × 1263 px; at 250% it is roughly 1488 × 2105 px — enough for slides and social posts. True print work (300+ DPI) is better done in a desktop tool.

How many pages can I convert at once?

Every page in the file is converted and zipped. Long documents take a little time and memory — each page is rendered one at a time and added to the ZIP, so even a 100-page file usually completes, just not instantly.

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