How to Split a PDF and Convert Pages to Images
Pull out a page range, split a document into individual pages, or export pages as JPG or PNG.
'Splitting' a PDF can mean a few different things: pulling out a few pages, breaking a whole document into single pages, or turning pages into images entirely. Convorae has a tool for each.
Extracting a page range
If you only need certain pages — say, pages 2 to 5 of a longer report — open Split PDF, choose 'Extract a range', and type the pages you want, like '2-5' or '1, 3, 7-9'. You get a single new PDF containing just those pages, in order.
Splitting into individual pages
To break an entire document apart — for example, separating a batch of scanned forms back into one file per form — switch to 'Split into single pages'. Every page becomes its own downloadable PDF, each with its own download button.
Converting pages to images
Sometimes you need an image, not a PDF — a page to drop into a slide deck, or a quick preview. PDF to JPG and PDF to PNG render every page at a resolution you choose (150 DPI suits screens, 300 DPI suits print or zooming in) and export each as its own image file. Use JPG for smaller files, PNG when you need a lossless, crisp result for text or line art.
A note on quality
Once a page becomes an image, its text is no longer selectable or searchable — it's a picture of the page, not the page itself. If you need to keep text searchable, extracting or splitting the PDF (rather than converting to images) keeps it that way.
JPG or PNG for converted pages?
Choose per page type. Pages that are mostly photographs or scanned images convert well to JPG — small files, and the slight softness is invisible. Pages dominated by text, forms, tables or line drawings belong in PNG: the lossless result keeps letters and lines razor sharp, at the cost of a larger file. When in doubt, convert one page both ways and compare at full zoom — the difference around small text is obvious.
Working with very long documents
Converting renders every page, so a 120-page report becomes 120 image downloads. Save yourself the flood: extract just the pages you need with Split PDF first, then convert that small PDF to images. The same trick works in reverse for splitting — if a batch scan is one huge file, split it into single pages and keep only the pages that turned out well, instead of rescanning the whole batch.
When NOT to convert a page to an image
An image of a page is a dead end for anything except looking at it. Text in it cannot be searched, copied, filled in or read aloud by a screen reader, and a signature placed on it is just a picture. Keep contracts, application forms and anything you may need to edit or search as real PDFs, and convert copies to images only for slides, previews and sharing where a picture is genuinely what is needed.
Quick tips
- Use Split PDF for page ranges or per-page files; use PDF to JPG/PNG only when you specifically need images.
- 150 DPI is a sensible default; go to 300 DPI for printing or close-up detail.
- None of this uploads your document — everything runs in your browser.
- Need one page as an image? Extract that page first, then convert it — no need to render the whole document.
- Keep the original PDF archived: images cannot be turned back into a searchable document.