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About Extract Images
Different work from PDF to JPG, which photographs whole pages. This walks the document for the image objects the pages draw and hands each one back at the size it was embedded at, so a brochure gives up its photographs rather than pictures of its layout.
A JPEG inside a PDF is already a JPEG, so those are copied out untouched - bit for bit what was embedded, not a re-encoding of it. Everything else is rebuilt from its samples and written as PNG, transparency included where the document carried a mask for it.
A few encodings cannot be rebuilt in a browser: JPEG 2000, JBIG2 and CCITT fax, the last two being what some scanners produce. Those are counted and named rather than quietly skipped, so the number you get back is never fewer than the number you were told about.
Frequently asked questions about Extract Images
- Is Extract Images really free?
- Yes. Extract Images is free to use with no account, no daily task limit and no paid tier holding features back. Your result is never watermarked and never held behind an email address. The only real limit is your own device, since the file has to fit in your browser's memory while it is being worked on.
- Is my PDF uploaded?
- Everything runs inside your browser tab. The file is read with the browser File API, processed in a Web Worker on your machine, and handed back to you as a download. It is never sent to a server.
- Why did I get fewer images than I can see on the page?
- Two reasons, both reported after the run. Small images are skipped by default - rules, bullets and spacers are technically images and nobody wants four hundred of them - and a few encodings cannot be read in a browser. Lower the size floor to catch the first; the second is named with a count.
- Is the quality reduced?
- No. Photographs come out as the exact JPEG bytes that were embedded. Everything else is rebuilt from the original samples at full resolution and saved losslessly as PNG.
- What if I want the pages themselves as images?
- That is PDF to JPG or PDF to PNG, which render each page as a picture. Use those when you want what the page looks like; use this when you want what is in it.
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Everything above happens on your device. Extract Images opens your file in this tab, does the work here, and hands it back - nothing is uploaded, and nothing is kept once you leave.