Surely more than once you have found that you have achieved what you were looking for or what you wanted, and, suddenly, you need it in another format. And you don't know how to do it. One of the most common questions is to convert a PDF into JPG. Yes, a text document (which can contain graphics, diagrams ...) to an image file. How do you do that?
If you are also considering it, it is time for you to know how to do it. Therefore, this time we want to help you know how to convert a PDF to a JPG. And even if you think it is silly, it can save you from spending hours and hours trying to find the solution (without using the Internet pages).
What is a PDF
The first thing we are going to do is talk to you about PDF, because you may not know much else other than that it is a type of file that is not usually edited normally and that gives your documents a professional appearance.
Actually, PDF is known as Portable Document Format. In Spanish, Portable Document Format. It is used to view documents that are correctly laid out and designed where you can find text, graphics, images, tables ... On the Internet it is used, for example, to "give away" some practical minibooks or tutorials. But its use is also to present works, a curriculum, layout books, etc.
In other words, we are talking about a very widespread format, with multiple uses. Now, it has the problem that a PDF is usually not editable, which means that, if there are errors, these can be kept unless you have the original document or a program that does edit PDF (usually they are paid).
What is a JPG
In the case of JPG, it is an image format. They are the acronyms that refer to Joint Photographic Experts Groups. It is characterized by compressing the images without this compression meaning a loss of quality, although they do lose a bit.
This image extension is the most common you find on the Internet, along with GIF, PNG and, the now known, WebP. It is supported by browsers, emails, social networks ... But it is usually heavy when the quality of the image is maintained.
In emails it can be inserted inside the box where it is written, but it can also be attached (along with other formats). The problem is that those other formats may not have a preview, which is the case with JPG.
How to convert a PDF to JPG
There are many situations that you may find yourself in that give reasons why you need to know how to convert PDF to JPG. And it is that, as it happens the other way around, you may need both formats of the same image or document.
Therefore, here we are going to give you different options so that you can transform a PDF into JPG.
How to convert a PDF to JPG with Adobe Acrobat
The first option we give you to convert a PDF into JPG is to use the Adobe Acrobat program that is usually the usual one for opening PDF files. And what do you have to do to get an image?
You have to open the PDF document with Adobe. Next, click Export PDF (it should appear in the right panel). Put that you want an image and specify what format (in this case JPEG, which is the same as JPG).
Now you just have to hit the export button and the Save as box will appear. Say where you want to locate the image and click to save. And that's it, you don't have to do anything else.
How to convert a PDF to JPG with Photoshop
Have you been surprised? It has a bit of a trick, and that is that you can only achieve this only if the PDF is one page, since you will not be able to convert any more.
When you open a PDF document in Photoshop, the normal thing is that it only opens the first sheet, not the others. Although in the most modern ones, it does let you choose the page you want to open (it will only leave you one).
The good thing is that, once you have it open, you can edit it, modify it and, finally, instead of hitting save, you should go to Save as. There you will change the extension of the PDF to JPG and it will be ready.
If you want several of these pages, or all of them, it would have to be done manually, that is, one by one in the program. When the document has many it is somewhat cumbersome, but if they are few, it can be a viable option.
PDF to JPG with other programs
In addition to the two that we have discussed, there are many PDF to JPG converters through programs that you install on your computer. Some of them are:
- pixillion
- PDF Converter Windows 10
How to convert a PDF to JPG online
If you trust to upload the PDF document to the Internet, because we remind you that once you upload it, you lose control of what can be done with that document, there is some online pages that we can recommend to carry out the conversion.
Almost all of them have the same operation that would be the following:
- Enter the web page that most catches your attention or gives you more security to upload your documents to their terminals.
- Now, you have to upload the PDF document that you want to convert into JPG. Depending on your connection, it will take a few seconds or minutes to upload it (also depending on the size of that PDF).
- Once uploaded, they will ask you to confirm the conversion to JPG. On some pages they will even let you customize different properties of that JPG, for example the quality you want it to have, the weight of the image, etc.
- Again you will have to wait a while (seconds, minutes) to have the image of that PDF.
- All that remains is for you to download the image that has been generated.
If you worry about what can happen to the document that you have uploaded to their servers, you can read the terms of service before doing anything and see if, after a while, they destroy the information, or what do they do with it.
Y what web pages do we recommend? Well, the following:
- sodapdf.com
- pdftoimage
- pdf2go
- smallpdf
- ilovepdf