Free Online Image Optimizer What it's for

Turn a PDF into images

Drop in a PDF and take back one image per page, already compressed. Useful when something will accept a picture but not a document — an upload form, a listing, a message — and for pulling a single page out of a report without sending the whole thing.

How to turn a PDF into images

1

Drop in the PDF

Up to 30 pages. The pages are rendered on our side, so nothing heavy happens in your browser.

2

Every page becomes an image

Each one is rendered at a resolution that keeps body text readable, then compressed like any other image.

3

Download the pages

One zip with the lot, in page order, or save any single page from its row.

Questions

Why would I want images instead of the PDF?

Because plenty of things take a picture and refuse a document. Marketplace listings, older upload forms, messaging apps, and the image field on a web page all want a JPEG. Pulling out page four as a picture is also a good deal less than sending somebody a fourteen-page report.

Will the text still be readable?

Yes for anything meant to be read on screen. Pages are rendered at 150 dpi, which keeps ordinary body text comfortable — a page of a contract comes back around 200 KB. It is not the resolution you would choose for print or for running text recognition over afterwards.

Can it go the other way — images into a PDF?

No, and it is not planned. This turns documents into pictures, not pictures into documents. If you photographed pages and want them smaller before you assemble a PDF yourself, that is what the scanned-documents page is for.

Can it make my PDF smaller and still a PDF?

No. That is a genuinely different job — it means taking the document apart, recompressing what is inside it, and putting it back together, and this does not do that. What you get here is images.

Why the 30-page limit?

Rendering happens while you wait, at roughly forty milliseconds a page, so thirty is about the point where the wait stops feeling like a page load. Longer documents work in batches of thirty, and the settings stay put between them.

What happens to my document?

It is rendered, the pages are stored at a random unguessable address, and everything is deleted within the hour. The PDF itself is discarded as soon as the pages are made — it is never stored. Nothing reads the contents.