Save the first page of a PDF as a JPG

Turn every page of a PDF into a JPG image at the resolution you choose, without sending the document anywhere.

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How to convert PDF to JPG

1
Add your PDF
Drop one file or up to twenty into the box. Each document is opened by your own browser, so nothing is uploaded and nothing waits in a queue.
2
Choose DPI and pages
Pick a resolution between 72 and 600 DPI, type the pages you want, and set the JPEG quality if the default of 85 is not right for you.
3
Download the JPG files
One page comes back as a single .jpg. Several pages arrive as one ZIP archive with every image numbered in page order.

Only page 1 is drawn

The page opens with Pages set to 1, the same as the “First only” button. The other pages are never rendered, so the result is a single JPG rather than a ZIP, named after the document: report.pdf with 12 pages gives report-page-01.jpg, the number padded to the length of the page count. One page is light work, so the JPG builds as soon as the PDF opens, even at the default 600 DPI. Transparent areas come out white, since JPEG has no transparency; PDF to PNG can keep them. If the cover is really page 2, type 2.

Picking a size for a cover

At 600 DPI a Letter page of plain text came out at 5100 × 6600 pixels and 2.3 MB in our check on October 20, 2026, and an A4 page is about 4960 × 7016 pixels, far more than a thumbnail or a catalog card needs. Width in pixels is the page width in inches times the DPI. A4 is 8.27 inches wide and US Letter 8.5, so “For screen”, which is 96 DPI, gives about 794 and 816 pixels, and 72 DPI under “More settings” about 595 and 612. Pick the first setting above the width you need, then set the exact size in Resize Image.

One document after another

The page takes one PDF at a time. For the next one, press “Replace file”: Pages stays at 1, and the resolution and JPEG quality stay where you set them, so a shelf of reports or e-books becomes a set of covers one drop at a time. A page that is landscape or rotated in the PDF comes out the way a reader shows it. A password-protected PDF cannot be drawn until the password is removed, and the error offers that step with the file carried over.

Cover images on a phone

On a phone the PDF comes from Files, Downloads or a cloud drive, and page 1 is drawn by the phone's browser with nothing uploaded. If memory runs short at 600 DPI, the page steps down to the next lower resolution by itself and says so while it works, instead of failing. On an iPhone the download opens the Share sheet, where Save Image puts the cover in Photos; Android saves it to Downloads. The row of next tools passes the JPG to Crop Image to trim margins or cut a square, or to Compress Image when a site caps the file size.

The document never leaves your computer

Conversion runs inside your browser tab using its own rendering engine. The PDF is not uploaded, not copied to a server and not stored anywhere for us to delete later, which is why contracts, payslips and medical scans can be converted here. Close the tab and every page still in memory is gone with it.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from extracting images from a PDF?

This renders the complete page into one picture, including text, tables and lines. Extracting images pulls out only the photos that were embedded in the file, at their stored size, and ignores everything drawn around them. Pick rendering when you want the page as it looks.

Which DPI should I choose for printing?

Use 300 DPI for anything that will be printed, which is the standard for photo and document printing. For reading on a screen, 150 DPI is plenty, and 72 or 96 DPI is enough for a thumbnail or a quick email preview.

Why is my file so large at 600 DPI?

Because pixel count grows with the square of the resolution. A page at 600 DPI has four times as many pixels as the same page at 300 DPI and about seventy times as many as at 72 DPI. Drop to 300 DPI, or lower the JPEG quality slider, and the file shrinks fast.

Can I convert only some pages?

Yes. Type the pages you want in the page field, for example 1-3, 5, 8-10. Ranges may be listed in any order, duplicates are removed automatically, and only the pages you asked for are rendered, so the job also finishes sooner.

Will the text still be selectable in the JPG?

No. A JPG is a grid of pixels with no text layer, so nothing in the result can be selected, searched or copied. If you need the words back, run the image through OCR, or convert the original PDF to text instead of to an image.

Does my file get uploaded to a server?

No. The pages are rendered by your own browser, in a background thread on your machine. No part of the document travels over the network, so the conversion also works with the connection switched off once the page has loaded.

Is there a limit on file size or page count?

You can convert files up to 2 GB each, twenty at a time. There is no page limit, but 500 pages at 150 DPI takes a minute or two, and very high resolutions on long documents are limited mainly by how much memory your browser can hold at once.