Filewhisk

Extract images from a PDF in their original quality

Pull the images out of a PDF without screenshots or quality loss. Photos stored as JPEG are saved byte for byte as the original files, and everything else — logos with transparency, scans, graphics — as lossless PNG. Preview each image with its size and the pages it appears on, pick the ones you want and download them one by one or as a ZIP. The PDF is never uploaded.

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Drop a PDF here

or click to choose — every embedded photo, scan and graphic comes out

How to extract images from a PDF

  1. Drop a PDF into the box above, or click it to choose one. The images are found straight away.
  2. Look through the gallery: every image shows its pixel size, format, file size and the pages it appears on.
  3. Untick any image you do not need, or type page numbers to look at part of the document only.
  4. Download a single image, or all the selected ones as a ZIP.

Keep Original format for the best quality. Choose All PNG if you need every file in one lossless format for editing, or All JPG for the smallest files to share.

The original images, not screenshots

The quick way to get a picture out of a PDF is a screenshot, but a screenshot only captures the pixels on your screen. A large photo shown small on the page comes out small and blurry, and anything around it has to be cropped away. Right-clicking an image in a PDF viewer is hit and miss for the same reason — many viewers copy what they display, not what is stored.

This tool reads the images stored inside the PDF file instead. A photo that was placed into the document as a JPEG is saved as that same JPEG file, byte for byte: same pixels, same size, no second round of compression. Images stored in other ways are decoded and written as PNG, which is lossless, so nothing is lost on the way out.

Which format you get

Stored in the PDF asOriginal formatAll PNGAll JPG
JPEG photoThe original JPG filePNG, decoded without further lossThe original JPG file
Lossless image (logos, screenshots, graphics)PNGPNGJPG, high quality
Image with a transparent backgroundPNG with transparencyPNG with transparencyJPG on white
Scan in CMYK, JPEG 2000, CCITT or JBIG2PNGPNGJPG, high quality

Formats that photo apps do not open — JPEG 2000, and the black-and-white CCITT and JBIG2 formats used by office scanners — are converted to PNG so every image you download opens anywhere. Images in CMYK, the colour format of print-ready files, are converted to normal screen colours the same way a PDF reader shows them.

What the details on each image mean

The DPI figure explains most “why is my extracted image blurry” surprises: if a photo is printed at 96 DPI in the PDF, the stored image is small, and no extractor can make it bigger. For a sharper copy you would need the original photo from whoever made the document.

Pictures that are not images

Not everything that looks like a picture is stored as one. Charts from Excel, diagrams, icons, many logos and all text are drawn with vector shapes, which stay sharp at any zoom but are not image files inside the PDF. They do not appear in the gallery. To save them as a picture, render the page instead with PDF to JPG and crop the part you need with Crop Image.

After extracting

Extracted photos keep the resolution they had in the PDF, which can make them large. To send them by email or upload them to a form, shrink them with Compress Image to a Target Size. To change a batch to WebP or another format, use Convert Image Format. Going the other way? JPG to PDF puts images back into a document, and Compress PDF makes a photo-heavy PDF smaller without extracting anything.

Private by design

The PDF is opened and the images are created inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded to a server, so there is no copy to worry about and no limit on file size, page count or number of images — which matters when the document is a contract, a medical report or a scanned ID.

Frequently asked questions

Are the extracted images the same quality as in the PDF?

Yes - they are the images stored inside the file, not screenshots. Photos stored as JPEG are saved as the exact original JPG file, byte for byte. Other images are decoded and saved as PNG, which is lossless, so every pixel matches what the PDF contains. What no tool can do is add detail that was never there: if the PDF's creator shrank or compressed a photo, the extracted image has that same size and quality.

Why is an extracted image smaller or blurrier than it looks in the PDF?

Because it is stored at a lower resolution than the page suggests, and your PDF viewer enlarges it to fit. Each image card shows its pixel size and the DPI it is printed at on the page: around 300 DPI looks sharp in print, while 72-100 DPI looks soft when the image is shown large. Extracting gives you everything the file has, but it cannot restore detail that was removed when the PDF was made.

Why are some pictures in my PDF missing?

Charts, diagrams, icons and many logos are drawn with vector shapes and text rather than stored as images, so there is no image to extract. Tiny images under 64 pixels - bullets, lines, dots - are skipped unless you untick that option. To save a chart or a whole page as a picture, use PDF to JPG, which renders the page as you see it.

Can I extract images from a scanned PDF?

Yes. A scanned PDF usually stores each page as one large image, so you get one image per page at the resolution it was scanned at, often 200-300 DPI. Scans stored in the compact black-and-white formats used by office scanners (CCITT and JBIG2) are decoded and saved as PNG.

What happens to images with a transparent background?

In a PDF, transparency is often stored as a separate mask next to the image. The tool combines the two, so a logo on a transparent background comes out as a transparent PNG rather than a picture with a black box around it. If you choose All JPG, transparent areas are filled with white, because JPG cannot store transparency.

How do I save only some of the images?

Untick the images you do not want and download the rest as a ZIP, or use the Download button on a single image. To look at part of a long document only, type page numbers such as 3-7 in the Pages box.

Why were duplicate images removed?

A logo or letterhead that appears on every page is often stored once for each page. Identical images are shown only once, and the card lists every page they appear on, so you do not have to delete dozens of copies after downloading.

Can I extract images from a password-protected PDF?

Not while the protection is on, because the images inside are encrypted. Remove the password in the app that created the file, if you are allowed to, and extract the images from the unprotected copy.

Are my PDF files uploaded?

No. The PDF is read inside your browser tab and the images are created on your own device, so nothing is uploaded or stored and there is no file size or page limit.

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