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Extract images from a PDF

Pull the pictures back out of a PDF at their original resolution — not screenshots of the pages, the actual embedded files.

Choose your PDFs

up to 10 at a time.

PDFMax 25 MB each

The originals, not screenshots

A photograph inside a PDF is usually stored as an ordinary JPEG. Those come out byte for byte — the same file that went in, at full resolution, with nothing decoded or re-saved along the way. That is a very different thing from exporting the page as a picture, which gives you whatever the page happened to be rendered at.

Images stored as raw samples rather than a JPEG have to be rebuilt into PNGs. Still lossless, but no longer the original bytes.

A picture placed on twenty pages is stored once, so it comes out once. Anything smaller than about 80×80 is skipped — those are rules, bullets and spacers, not pictures. A few encodings, mainly JPEG 2000 and fax formats, have no safe way out; they are counted and reported rather than guessed at.

To turn whole pages into images instead, use PDF to Images.

How to use Extract Images

  1. Add your PDF

    Drop a PDF file onto the page, or click to choose one. Up to 25 MB.

  2. Choose your options

    Adjust any settings the tool offers, or keep the defaults — they are chosen to be right for most files.

  3. Download the result

    Save the result straight to your device.

Why use SlimFile for this

  • Originals, not screenshots

    Photos inside the PDF come out as the actual stored images, JPEGs byte for byte, at full resolution.

  • No duplicates or clutter

    An image repeated on many pages comes out once, and tiny decorative fragments are skipped.

  • Free, no sign-up

    No account, no email address, no trial that runs out.

  • No watermark

    What you download is clean — nothing added to your file.

  • Deleted within an hour

    Uploads and results are removed automatically about an hour after processing. We never look inside them.

Questions

How do I save the pictures from a PDF?
Add the PDF and every embedded image is pulled out as its own file, at its original resolution. Download them one by one or all together.
How is this different from PDF to Images?
PDF to Images renders each page as a picture, so you get whatever resolution the page was drawn at, background and all. This pulls out the pictures that were put into the document in the first place, at whatever size they were stored — which for a photograph is usually much larger.
Are the images changed at all?
A photograph inside a PDF is normally stored as an ordinary JPEG, and those come out byte for byte — the same file, nothing decoded or re-saved. Images kept as raw samples have to be rebuilt into PNGs, which is still lossless but no longer the original bytes.
Why did it find fewer images than I can see?
Three reasons. A picture repeated on many pages is stored once, so it comes out once. Anything smaller than about 80x80 is skipped, because those are rules, bullets and spacers rather than pictures. And a few encodings, mainly JPEG 2000 and fax formats, have no safe way out — those are counted and reported rather than guessed at.
Does it work on a scanned document?
Yes, and it is a good use for it. A scan is usually one large image per page, so you get the original scans back at full resolution.

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Convert Image

Change images between JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF.

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Resize Images

Scale images down in batches, by edge or percentage.

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Crop Image

Drag a box over the part of a picture you want to keep.

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