Extract Images From a PDF

No. The file is read and every image is decoded on your own device with pdf.js, the same open engine browsers use to show PDFs. Nothing is uploaded to a server, so confidential contracts, scans and reports stay private.

It collects the embedded raster images each page paints, meaning photos, scans and other pixel pictures stored as image XObjects. Vector line art, gradients, background patterns and live text are drawn from instructions rather than pixels, so they are not extracted.

Each image is decoded and re-encoded as a PNG, which is lossless and opens in every image viewer and editor. The label under each thumbnail shows the pixel dimensions and the resulting PNG size so you know what you are downloading before you save it.

Names follow the pattern image-p<page>-<index>.png, where the page number is 1-based and the per-page index is zero-padded to two digits. The first two images on page 1 become image-p1-01.png and image-p1-02.png, which keeps them sorted in the right order in your downloads folder.

Identical repeated images, such as a logo watermark, are counted once per page they appear on rather than once per placement. Decorative shapes, gradients and vector diagrams never count as raster images, so a page that looks busy can still yield only a picture or two.

Yes. A scanned page is usually stored as one large full-page image, so each scanned page gives you a single high-resolution PNG. That makes this a quick way to turn a scan back into individual page images.

The drop zone suggests keeping files under about 25 MB, and because decoding happens in your browser the real ceiling is your device memory. Very large or very high-resolution PDFs take longer to scan and use more memory while thumbnails are built.

That message appears when the file is password protected or its structure is damaged, since pdf.js cannot open a document it cannot decrypt or parse. Remove the password in your PDF reader first, then try extracting again.

No. There is no zip step, so Download all triggers each PNG as its own download with a short pause between them. Your browser may ask once for permission to save multiple files, which you can allow to receive the whole set.