The Most Practices Methods to Convert PDFs to JPG Format

You can save a PDF to JPG if you want the document to be an image. When you save a PDF in JPG format, the document no longer needs to be opened with a PDF reader and can be viewed with most image viewers.

A PDF to JPG conversion is often useful when sharing a PDF because you don’t have to worry about the other person having a PDF viewer or plug-in on their computer or a PDF opener on their phone. However, there are some disadvantages of PDF to JPG conversion that you should consider before converting.

Another way to save a PDF as a JPEG file is to use a special converter that only converts the images in the PDF. You may use this type of converter if you only want the images from the PDF – the converter will extract the PDF images and save them in JPG format.

Should you do it?

While there are benefits to saving a PDF to JPG, it’s important to know what’s actually going on when you convert. Since a PDF is a document and a JPG is an image, two completely different file types, you can’t do conversions without losing some aspect of the PDF.

For example, if you want to edit text in PDF, we recommend keeping it in PDF format (or at least not deleting the original PDF after converting to JPG). While most PDFs can be edited using a PDF editor, most of them probably can’t do the same with a JPG, and you’ll probably have a hard time finding a good JPG to text converter.

Another problem with PDF to JPG converters is that during conversion, any embedded content such as bookmarks or audio is lost and unusable in JPG. If you don’t keep the original PDF to access these things, you can never recover them because you can’t convert JPG to PDF and expect to recover those embeddables.

PDF to JPG conversion tools

There are several ways to save entire pages from a PDF to JPG format. The method you choose to use should depend primarily on the operating system you’re using and whether you already have the converter on your computer.

SwifDoo PDF

SwifDoo PDF Online Converter is a completely free PDF file converter for almost all web browsers that lets you load a PDF into the program and then convert it to JPG. The desktop version can also adjust resolution, scale images, flip pages, rotate pages, add a watermark, and more. It support multiple formats both from/to PDF, such as PDF to DWG and vice versa.

If you have Windows 11, you may prefer to use the desktop application. Just open the PDF file in that program, choose a folder, and then hit Convert to create a JPG for each page in the PDF.

PDF2JPG.net

PDF2JPG.net is one of the easiest places to convert each page of your PDF to a separate image in JPG format. This PDF converter works on Windows, MacOS, Linux and any other operating system that supports a browser.

Upload the PDF to that website, choose JPG quality, wait for the conversion to JPG, and then download any of the pages as JPG or download a ZIP of all the converted pages.

For Mac users

macOS users are best off using the built-in PDF tool to convert PDF to JPG. Open the PDF to launch Preview (or open Preview first and go to File > Open… if it doesn’t start automatically), then choose JPG via the File > Export… menu option. You can also right click on any of the pages in the left panel to export the PDF page to JPG.

Adobe apps

If you already have Adobe Photoshop on your computer, you can use it to convert a PDF page to JPG. Open the PDF as you would any image, choose Pages , then use the File > Save As… menu option to save the page as a JPG image file.

Adobe Acrobat is similar to Photoshop: it’s not free, but if you have it, it’s perfect for converting PDF to JPG. Open the PDF and then go to File > Export to > Image > JPEG to convert all PDF pages to JPG files.

Other PDF to JPG solutions

Some other PDF to JPG converters, some of which support batch conversions, include PDFMate PDF Converter, UniPDF, DocuFreezer, Icecream PDF Converter, and UnitePDF. Some PDF splitters are also capable of converting PDF to JPG.

If you don’t want the converted PDF pages to be separate, individual JPGs, but just one big JPG file with all the pages merged together, you need to use a completely different tool. Filesmerge.com is an example of a website that can merge all JPG pages into a single file, horizontally or vertically, which might be easier to send or store, rather than keeping all the pages as separate files.

In closing

PDF files aren’t perfect, but they help ensure that the recipient doesn’t have a lot of options when it comes to modifying them. For this reason, it’s a good idea to learn how to convert other PDF to other formats, such as PDF to JPG in our case, among many others, before sending it to a friend or client.