How to convert PDF to JPG
Have you been asked to extract some pages from a PDF document and save them as a JPG file? Don’t despair, you won’t have to “photograph” your computer screen and save each page individually! Fortunately for you, there are online services and easy-to-use software that allow you to perform this operation completely automatically. All you have to do is take the starting document, feed it to one of these solutions and specify the resolution and/or quality level of the images to be obtained: everything will be ready in a few minutes.
How do you say? Too good to be true? I assure you that there is no “trick”. Choose one of the online services or one of the applications that I am about to recommend and put into practice the instructions on how to transform PDF to JPG that you find below, you will change your mind immediately.
Then? Do you want to try? Yes? Perfect! So I would say not to waste any more precious time, to ban the chatter and immediately start getting busy. I am sure that in the end you will be able to tell yourself very happy and satisfied with what you have learned and that even in case of need you will be ready to recommend all your friends eager to receive some similar advice. What do you say, we bet?
Online services to convert PDF to JPG
CloudConvert
If you don’t have a second to waste and want to avoid installing new programs on your computer, don’t think twice and turn to CloudConvert. It is a web service that allows you to convert various types of files, including PDFs and images to JPEG format, directly from your browser. It has no limits in terms of overall file weight, does not require registration and is completely free. The service also respects the privacy of users as, once the upload is completed, the files will be automatically deleted from the CloudConvert servers within 24 hours. What more could you want?
To use it, connected to its home page via the link I provided you just now, click on the Select files button and select the PDF document you want to transform into JPG. Then click on the Start conversion button and wait a few seconds for the file to be first uploaded online and then processed by CloudConvert.
When the process is complete, the download button will automatically appear next to the name of the file you converted: click on it and a ZIP package will start downloading, containing all the pages of the document in JPG format. If you haven’t made any changes to the default settings of the web browser you’re using, you’ll find the file in your computer’s Downloads folder.
iLovePDF
iLovePDF is another online service dedicated to converting and editing PDF files. As in the case of the solutions already mentioned, it does not require registration and automatically deletes the files uploaded to its servers. It allows both converting and extracting images from PDFs and has an upload limit of 200 MB. In short, try it now and you will see that you will not regret it.
To use the service, go to its home page via the link I gave you a moment ago and drag the PDF to convert to JPG in the browser window. Alternatively, click on Select PDF file and “manually” select the files to act on or click on the buttons with the Google Drive or Dropbox icons to download the files to convert directly from your supported cloud Storage service accounts.
At this point, 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. PDF files transformed into JPG will be stored in the Downloads folder of your computer, provided, of course, you have not changed the default imports of the web browser you are using to browse the web.
Software to convert PDF to JPG
PDFill FREE PDF Tools (Windows)
Don’t have a particularly fast internet connection and find the upload times on the aforementioned online services exhausting? No problem. You can convert your PDF to JPG even offline, for example with PDFill FREE PDF Tools. This is a free software for Windows that contains a wide range of tools to edit, convert and create PDF documents easily.
To download it on your PC, connect to its website via the link I just provided and click the Download now button twice in a row (once under the word Get this tool only and another on the page that opens) .
Then open the program installation package ( PDFill.exe ) and click first on the Yes button and then on Next, accept the conditions of use of PDFill FREE PDF Tools by placing the checkmark next to the item I accept the terms in the License Agreement and complete the setup by clicking on Next two consecutive times, Install and Finish.
During the procedure, Ghost Script and .Net Framework, two free software necessary for the correct functioning of the program, will also be downloaded from the Internet and installed on the PC.
At the end of the setup, start PDFill FREE PDF Tools, click on the Convert PDF to images button and select the PDF document to be transformed into a JPG file. Then put the checkmark next to the JPG item, set a value equal to or greater than 300 in the Image resolution field (in order to obtain high-resolution images), make sure that there is the value 100 set in the JPG quality field (to generate images high quality) and click on the Save as image button to choose the folder to export the JPG files.
If you don’t want to convert the entire PDF but only some pages of the document, set the start and end page numbers in the text fields located next to the Select page from item.
Nitro Reader (Windows)
Instead of converting the pages of a PDF into a JPG file, would you like to extract the images contained in the document? Ok, this can be done too. You ask me how? Well, simple: using the Nitro Reader software, a great PDF reader is available in a free version.
To download the free version of Nitro Reader on your computer, connected to the program’s website using the link I have just indicated, fill out the form that is proposed to you by entering your name, surname and email address and then 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 bring at the end of the whole setup.
At this point, 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.
Note that by default, images will be saved as JPG files in the PDF source folder. To choose another path, select the Specific folder item in the Output drop-down menu and click on the Browse button located next to it.
PDF Toolkit + (Mac)
If you use a Mac you can convert PDF to JPG with PDF Toolkit +, light and compact application that allows you to edit and convert PDF documents in various ways. Unfortunately, it is not free, it costs € 1.99, but I assure you that it is worth all the expense.
To use it, download it from the Mac App Store using the link I indicated above and start it. Then go to the Text / Images tab of PDF Toolkit +, drag the document to convert into the program window and set the JPEG option in the drop-down menu located at the bottom right.
Finally, make sure that there is the High-resolution value (300 dpi) set in the drop-down menu located under the heading Record as images and click on the Convert button to choose the folder in which to save the JPG images.
If you don’t plan on spending money, you can try turning PDF to JPG on Mac using one of the applications included “stock” in macOS and OS X: Preview or Automator. It is a bit more complex than using PDF Toolkit + but the final result is still good. You can find everything explained in great detail in my tutorial on the subject.