PDF to PNG Converter

What happens when you convert PDF to PNG

• Each page of the PDF becomes its own PNG file, rendered at 150 dpi by default. Choose 300 dpi for print-quality text.

How to convert PDF to PNG online

1. Press "Choose PDF files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to PNG". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each PNG with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert PDF to PNG?

PDF files usually come from documents, forms, invoices and print-ready files. People convert them to PNG because PNG keeps sharp edges, text and transparency without any loss.

In short, PDF is good at what it was made for, and PNG is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. PDF opens in every browser's built-in viewer, while PNG opens in every browser and image viewer.

How to convert PDF to PNG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your PDF files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each PNG is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as PNG with Save as, provided Windows can open the PDF in the first place.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the PDF files from Finder onto the drop zone and the PNG files land in Downloads. Preview can do single images too: open the file, choose File, then Export, and pick PNG.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose PDF files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted PNG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose PDF files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The PNG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for PDF to PNG

PNG is written losslessly, so there is no quality setting to get wrong. The Maximum width setting is there if you need a smaller image: it scales down before saving and never scales up.

PDF vs PNG: the differences

About PDF and PNG files

What is a PDF file?

A PDF fixes the layout of every page so it looks the same on any device. Converting a PDF to an image renders each page to pixels; converting an image to PDF wraps it as a page.

What is a PNG file?

PNG compresses without losing a single pixel, so screenshots and text stay razor sharp, but a photograph saved as PNG is often three to five times the size of the same photo as JPG.

PDF to PNG not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the PNG is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. A PDF is a short list of drawing instructions, while the PNG stores every pixel, so the output is normally larger and grows with the width you choose.

Convert PDF to PNG from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts PDF to PNG in one line:

magick input.pdf output.png

To convert every PDF in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format png *.pdf. ImageMagick needs Ghostscript installed to read PDF files. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.