Convert PDF to JPG
Here we go again! Your colleague – usually careless – again chose the wrong way to send you the images you needed to draft a business document. Instead of sending you individual files in JPG format, he sent you a single PDF containing all the images. And now? Quite a nuisance, right?
At this point, if you don’t want to waste any more time waiting for the right files to be sent to you, you just have to take action and convert PDF to JPG using one of the many software or online services suitable for the purpose. Yes, you read that right. Fortunately, there are many and many of them are even free. So I would say not to get lost in chat further and see immediately which are the best.
Below you will find several listed, both for software and online services. They are all extremely reliable and easy to use even for those who have no experience in using the computer. You just have to identify the one that seems to you best suited to your needs and use it by following the very simple instructions I’m about to give you. I bet you will be pleasantly surprised by the results you will be able to obtain!
Convert PDF to JPG on Windows
Let’s start with a review of software that allows you to convert PDF to JPG on Windows computers. There are really something for everyone, all free and incredibly easy to use. Choose the one that seems to you best suited to your needs.
PDF-XChange Viewer
If you want to convert your PDF to JPG without wasting time, download PDF-XChange Viewer. It is a free and portable PDF file viewer (that is, it does not require installations to work) that includes some advanced export functions, such as the one that allows you to transform PDFs into JPEG.
To download the program on your PC, connected to its official website, select the Portable version (ZIP) item from the drop-down menu at the top and press the Download button.
Once the download is complete, open the zip archive you just downloaded, extract the contents to any folder and run the PDFXCview.exe executable. At this point, drag the PDF to convert to JPG in the PDF-XChange Viewer window and go to the File menu > Export> Export as image.
In the window that opens, set the JPEG – Joint Graphic Experts Group option in the Image Type drop-down menu and choose whether to convert all pages of the document, only the current page or a specific page range by selecting one of the options listed top left. Finally, choose the folder in which to save the images by clicking on the Browse button and press the Export button to start exporting the images. The operation should take no more than a few seconds.
PDFill FREE PDF Tools
PDFill FREE PDF Tools is an all-in-one application for working with PDF files under Windows. It allows you to merge and split documents, apply watermarks, convert document pages to images and much more. It is completely free and very simple to use.
To download PDFill FREE PDF Tools on your PC, connect to the program’s website and click on the Download now button twice in a row: the first time in the top right, under the heading Get this tool only, the second on the Web page that you opens.
When the download is complete, double-click on it to open the PDFill_PDF_Tools_FREE.exe file you just downloaded and, in the window that opens, click first on the Yes button and then on Next. Then accept the conditions of use of the program, placing the checkmark next to the item I accept the terms in the License Agreement, and complete the software installation process by first clicking on Next three times in a row and then on Install and Finish.
Make sure there is no checkmark next to the entries for other PDFill products, otherwise evaluation copies of other PDFill software that you do not need will be installed. Also, please note that a program called GhostScript may be downloaded from the Internet during setup. Don’t worry, it’s not promotional software or malware – it’s free software that interprets Adobe’s PostScript and PDF page description languages. Without the latter, PDFill FREE PDF Tools cannot function properly.
Another component necessary for the program to function, which you may be asked to install, is Microsoft’s .Net Framework. If at the end of the setup you are told that this software is not present on your PC, click on the Download button and install this feature to remedy the problem.
When the installation is complete, to convert a PDF file to JPG with PDFill FREE PDF Tools, start the program and click on the Convert PDF to Images button on its main screen. Then select the document to convert and, in the window that opens, set the preferences for the output images.
Then put the checkmark next to the JPG item to set this output format, type in the Image resolution field the number of DPI that the photos resulting from the conversion must have (I suggest you leave the default value active or set 300 dpi for higher quality) and click on the Save as Image button to select the folder in which to save the JPGs and start the conversion process.
If you want, you can also set a range of pages to be transformed into custom images using the text fields located next to the Select page from the item. Easy, right?
Nitro Reader
Instead of converting the pages of a PDF to JPG files, would you like to extract the images contained in the document? No problem. With Nitro Reader, a great PDF reader available in a free version, you can do this and more.
To download the free version of Nitro Reader on your computer, connected to the program’s website, fill out the form that is proposed to you by entering your name, surname and email address (you can also use a temporary email address ) and first click on the Download button Free and then on Download Nitro Reader (32 bit) if you are using a 32-bit operating system or Download Nitro Reader (64 bit) if you are using a 64-bit operating system.
When the download is complete, open the Nitro Reader installation package (e.g. nitro_reader5_64.exe ), put the checkmark next to I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click first on Install and then on Yes and Finish to conclude the setup.
To extract images from a PDF using Nitro Reader, import the document in question into the program and click on the Extract Images button at the top.
In the window that opens, click on the Options button, set the drop-down menus Extract color images as and Extract monochrome images as on JPG and click first on the OK button and then on the Extract button to start extracting the images.
By default, the images will be saved (as a JPG file) in the PDF source folder. To choose another path, select the Specific folder item in the Output drop-down menu and click the Browse button located next to it.
Convert PDF to JPG on Mac
Now let’s move on to some applications, both free and paid, that allow you to convert PDF to JPG on Mac.
PDF Toolkit +
Do you use a Mac? Then know that you can convert PDF to JPG easily with PDF Toolkit +. It is a small app that I like to define as a “Swiss Army Knife” for PDFs: it allows you to merge, split, compress, convert and extract texts and images from them. You can download it from the Mac App Store at a price of € 1.99.
How does it work? Nothing easier. After starting PDF Toolkit +, click on the Text / Images tab, drag the PDF to be transformed into JPEG in the program window and set the JPEG item in the drop-down menu at the bottom right.
Then choose the resolution that the output images must have from the Save as images drop-down menu (I recommend you keep the High resolution 300 dpi setting ), click the Convert button, choose the folder to export the images and the game it’s done.
If you want, by pressing the Extract button ! located under the heading Extract images you can directly extract the images contained in the PDF without converting the other contents (therefore texts, tables and so on).
Automator
I assure you that PDF Toolkit + is worth all the (little) money it costs. However, if you really don’t want to open your wallet, I would like to point out that thanks to Automator you can create a small “homemade” application capable of transforming PDF files into JPG images.
The procedure to follow is quite simple. Start Automator (you can find it in the Other folder of the Launchpad), choose to start creating a new Application and select the Library item from the left sidebar.
At this point, add the following elements to the app by double-clicking on each of them: Ask for Finder items (to allow the application to process the PDF files selected by the user), Turn PDF pages into images (to carry out the conversion) and Move Finder Items (to specify the folder to save the output images, the desktop by default).
At this point, go to the File> Save menu of Automator, select the folder in which to save the app and that’s it. At this point, to convert PDF to JPG with the application created by Automator, start the latter, select the document to convert and all its pages will appear as a JPG file on the desktop.
Convert PDF to JPG online
If you want to convert PDF to JPG without installing programs on your PC, you can only rely on one of the online services that I am about to recommend.
iLovePDF
iLovePDF is a great online service dedicated to converting and editing PDF files. It does not require registration and automatically deletes files uploaded to its servers. It allows both converting and extracting images from PDFs and has an upload limit of 200MB.
To use it, connect to its home page and drag the PDF to convert into the browser window. Then choose whether to convert the pages to JPG or extract images from the PDF and press the Convert to JPG button to start the processing – and the consequent download – of the images.
CloudConvert
Finally, let me tell you about CloudConvert: a universal online converter that supports tons of different file types. It does not require registration – at least not necessarily – and allows you to process up to 10 files at a time. It also has an upload limit set at 1GB and protects users’ privacy by deleting the files at the end of the conversion.
To convert a PDF to JPG with CloudConvert, link to the home page of the latter and drag the file to be converted into the browser window. Then press the Start conversion button (bottom right), wait for the conversion to be completed and download the output file to your PC by pressing the Download button that appears next to the name of the original document.