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Convert PDF to JPG

Every page becomes a picture. Take one page or all of them.

How it works

  1. Drop your PDF in.
  2. Choose the pages and the size.
  3. Download the images.

What it does

Sometimes a page needs to be a picture: to drop into a slide, to post somewhere that will not take a PDF, to send to somebody whose phone makes a meal of documents. This draws each page and gives you image files.

Choosing pages and quality

Pick the pages you want by clicking their thumbnails, and choose how large to draw them. A higher setting gives a crisper image and a bigger file — worth it for something that will be looked at closely, wasteful for a thumbnail in a chat message.

JPG or PNG

JPG is smaller and right for pages that are mostly photographs. PNG is larger and keeps text edges sharp, which is right for a page of small print that somebody has to read. The choice matters more on text than most people expect.

Rendered in your browser

The pages are drawn by your own machine using the same rendering engine your browser uses to display PDFs. Nothing is uploaded and no images are produced on a server, so no copy of the page exists anywhere but on your computer.

Doing this from your own code

GET /api/v1/documents/{id}.png

Import the PDF once, then ask for any page as a picture at any resolution up to 200 dpi.

curl
curl -s "https://docubend.com/api/v1/documents/$ID.png?page=2&dpi=200" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -o page-2.png
JavaScript
const r = await fetch(
  `${BASE}/api/v1/documents/${id}.png?page=2&dpi=200`,
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${TOKEN}` } });
await writeFile("page-2.png", Buffer.from(await r.arrayBuffer()));
Python
png = requests.get(f"{BASE}/api/v1/documents/{id}.png",
    params={"page": 2, "dpi": 200},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {TOKEN}"}, timeout=60).content
open("page-2.png", "wb").write(png)
What it does not do. PNG, not JPEG, and one page per request — there is no zip. The browser tool writes JPEGs and bundles them.

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Questions

What resolution do I get?

You choose the scale before rendering. Higher looks better and produces larger files.

Should I pick JPG or PNG?

JPG for pages that are mostly photographic, PNG for pages of text where sharp edges matter.

Can I convert only some pages?

Yes. Select the pages you want by clicking their thumbnails.

Will the text still be searchable?

No. An image of a page is a picture — the text stops being text. Keep the PDF if you need it searchable.

Is my PDF uploaded?

No. The pages are drawn in this browser tab.

Next

Tool What it does Runs in Same thing, programmatically
Convert JPG to PDF Turn photographs into one document with pages. your browser POST /api/v1/pdfs
Split a PDF Pull out the pages you want, or make one file per page. your browser GET /api/v1/documents/{id}.pdf
Compress a PDF Get a file under a size limit, choosing what quality to spend. your browser no endpoint
Convert PDF to Word Get an editable .docx with the text as text. your browser no endpoint

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