Available in pre-release 3.7
Convert PDF to Images renders each chosen page of the open PDF to an image file (issue #5991).
Command id:
CmdConvertPdfToImages (see Commands).When it is available #
The command appears only when the open document is a PDF. It is hidden for comics, images, EPUB, DjVu, CHM, and other non-PDF files. The reverse direction (images → PDF) is Convert to PDF.
In the application #
- Open a PDF.
- Start Convert PDF to Images… in any of these ways:
- File → Convert PDF to Images…
- Right-click the document → Document → Convert PDF to Images…
- Command palette (
Ctrl + k) → type “Convert PDF to Images”
- A dialog shows the source path and a destination template:
- Default is the same folder and base name as the PDF, with
-<N>.png(forbook.pdf,book-<N>.png). <N>is replaced by the 1-based page number (book-1.png,book-2.png, …).- A format drop-down (PNG, JPEG, BMP) next to the path, like Save Image: picking a format updates the file extension.
- Edit the path, or use … to browse. If the chosen name has no
<N>,-<N>is inserted before the extension.
- Default is the same folder and base name as the PDF, with
- Choose which pages to convert:
- Current — the page you are viewing
- All — every page (the default)
- Custom — a range in the edit box, same syntax as Extract Pages:
1,3-5,8-(Nis the last page)
- Click Convert. On success, Explorer opens on the first written file. On failure you get a short error dialog.
Press Esc or Cancel to close the dialog without converting.
Pages are rendered at 150 DPI (independent of the zoom you are reading at). PNG files are losslessly recompressed in the background (same zopfli pass as Save Image).
From the command line #
sumatrapdf-tool convert can also write images. Use %d in the output name for the page number:sumatrapdf-tool convert -o book-%d.png book.pdf
sumatrapdf-tool convert -o book-%d.png book.pdf 1-3,8
See also #
- Convert to PDF — comics / images → PDF
- Extract text from PDF
- Extract pages from PDF