Why extract pictures from a PDF
Product catalogues, reports, brochures and presentations often contain photos and graphics you need separately — for a website, a social post or a new document. Taking screenshots loses quality and includes surrounding content. Extraction saves the pictures themselves.
How it works
Every page is scanned for pictures stored in the PDF. Choose PNG for the best quality or JPG for smaller files, and set a minimum size (32 pixels by default) to skip tiny icons, bullets and lines. Each picture is saved with a name showing its page and number, and all pictures download together in a ZIP, or one by one from the file list.
What counts as a picture
Photos, scanned images and embedded graphics are extracted. Text, vector drawings, charts drawn with lines, and shapes are not pictures inside a PDF, so they are not extracted — use PDF to PNG to capture whole pages including those. In scanned PDFs, each page is usually one big picture.
Common problems and how to fix them
Nothing was found: the PDF uses vector graphics only, or the pictures are smaller than the minimum size. A picture looks cut into strips: some PDFs store one image in several pieces — capture the page with PDF to PNG instead. Colours look strange: rare CMYK images may appear different; convert the page instead.
Good habits
Respect copyright and use only pictures you are allowed to reuse, raise the minimum size to skip decorations, and keep the original PDF.