How to export selected PDF pages as images

How to export selected PDF pages as images

1. Open PDF to PNG or PDF to JPG and choose your PDF, or drop it onto the page.
2. Choose a Resolution. For JPG, choose a JPEG quality too.
3. Under Pages, choose Choose pages.
4. In Page numbers, type single pages and ranges separated by commas, such as 2, 7, 9-11.
5. Check the summary at the top of the settings. For 2, 7, 9-11 it reads "5 images", so you know the count before anything is made.
6. Choose Export images.
7. Download the images, or choose Download all for a ZIP.

Before the result appears, Deckle checks that the number of images matches the pages you chose and that each one opens at the expected size. The Verified: line then reports the count, such as "5 images produced".

How to write the page list

The Page numbers box accepts the ways people usually type page lists:

Ranges include both ends. Dashes, en dashes and spaces around them are all accepted. A page named twice, as in 2-4, 3, is exported once.

Use the page positions in the file, not the numbers printed on the pages. In a report with a cover and two contents pages, printed page 1 is PDF page 4. The page strip beside the preview shows positions, so check there.

When the button stays disabled

The button stays disabled until the list makes sense, and the message beside it says what to fix:

• an empty box: "Name at least one page."
• a page past the end: "30 runs past the last page — this document has 24."
• a backwards range: "9-4 counts backwards — write it as 4-9."
• something that is not a page: "p5 is not a page number or a range."
• a page 0: "Pages are numbered from 1, not 0."

Nothing is checked after the click, so once the button is enabled the export will cover exactly the pages listed.

The files come out in page order

Images are always produced in page order, whatever order you typed. Typing 11, 2 gives page 2 first and page 11 second. Each file name carries the page position, such as handbook-002.png and handbook-011.png, so you can always match an image to its page.

Example: from a 40-page staff handbook you need the org chart on page 6 and the floor plans on pages 31 and 32. Type 6, 31-32 in PDF to PNG at Standard. You get three PNGs named handbook-006.png, handbook-031.png and handbook-032.png, and nothing else.

If you want the pages in a different order for a slide deck or email, rename the files after download, or rearrange them where you use them.

Tips

• Read the image count before you export. It catches a typo such as 1-30 when you meant 1, 30.
• Pick the format per job. Charts and text pages as PNG, photos as JPG; see PDF to PNG or JPG.
• Keep pages as a PDF if people need the text. Split PDF extracts the same pages into a smaller PDF with selectable text.
• Lower the resolution for large pages. A poster-sized page can hit the device pixel limit at Print; pixel size from DPI shows the maths.

Frequently asked questions

Can I export pages 2 and 5 only?

Yes. Choose Choose pages, type 2, 5, and choose Export images. You get two images.

Can I choose pages by clicking thumbnails?

No. Type the page numbers in Page numbers. The preview lets you look through the pages to find them first.

Will the images be in the order I typed?

No. They are made in page order, and each file name carries its page number.

Can I export selected pages as one PDF instead?

Yes, with Split PDF or Organize PDF pages. That keeps the text selectable.

Related tools

• PDF to PNG for sharp images of chosen pages
• PDF to JPG for compact images of chosen pages
• Split PDF to extract the same pages as a PDF