Convert PDF to JPG Guide

How to convert PDF files to images in your application using iLovePDF’s REST API.

Remember that in order to use our Tool Guides, you need to have previous knowledge about the basics to processing a PDF with our REST API. We strongly recommend that you read the Processing a PDF guide before starting this one.

Basic PDF to JPG conversion

Here is a simple example of how to convert all pages of a couple of PDF files to JPG images:

Basic PDF to JPG conversion

// Create a new task
$myTaskConvertPDF = $ilovepdf->newTask('pdfjpg');
// Add files to task for upload
$file1 = $myTaskConvertPDF->addFile('path/to/file1_name.pdf');
$file2 = $myTaskConvertPDF->addFile('path/to/file2_name.pdf');
// Execute the task
$myTaskConvertPDF->execute();
// Download the package files
$myTaskConvertPDF->download();

// Create a new task
var taskPDFtoJPG = api.CreateTask<PDFtoJPGPTask>();
// Add files to task for upload
var file1 = taskPDFtoJPG.AddFile("file1.pdf");
var file2 = taskPDFtoJPG.AddFile("file2.pdf");
// Execute the task
taskPDFtoJPG.Process(new PDFtoJPGParams{PdfJpgMode = PdfJpgModes.pages});
// Download the package files
taskPDFtoJPG.DownloadFile();

# Create a new task
my_task_convert_pdf = ilovepdf.new_task :pdfjpg
# Add files to task for upload
file1 = my_task_convert_pdf.add_file 'path/to/file1_name.pdf'
file2 = my_task_convert_pdf.add_file 'path/to/file2_name.pdf'
# Execute the task
my_task_convert_pdf.execute
# Download the package files
my_task_convert_pdf.download

const task = ilovepdf.newTask('pdfjpg') as PdfJpgTask;

task.start()
.then(() => {
    return task.addFile('path/to/file1_name.pdf');
})
.then(() => {
    return task.process();
})
.then(() => {
    return task.download();
})
.then((data) => {
    fs.writeFileSync('path/to/local/file_name.jpg', data);
});

Advanced PDF to JPG conversion

There is one single property pdfjpg_mode you can set to customize the conversion to JPG:

Advanced PDF to JPG conversion

// Choose your processing tool
$myTaskConvertPDF = $ilovepdf->newTask('pdfjpg');
// Set your tool options
$myTaskConvertPDF->setMode('extract');

// Choose your processing tool
var taskPDFtoJPG = api.CreateTask<PDFtoJPGPTask>();
// Set your tool options
taskPDFtoJPG.Process(new PDFtoJPGParams{PdfJpgMode = PdfJpgModes.extract});

# Choose your processing tool
my_task_convert_pdf = ilovepdf.new_task :pdfjpg
# Set your tool options
my_task_convert_pdf.mode = 'extract'

const task = ilovepdf.newTask('pdfjpg') as PdfJpgTask;

task.start()
.then(() => {
    return task.addFile('path/to/file1_name.pdf');
})
.then(() => {
    return task.process({ pdfjpg_mode: 'extract' });
})
.then(() => {
    return task.download();
})
.then((data) => {
    fs.writeFileSync('path/to/local/file_name.jpg', data);
});

pdfjpg_mode is a property which allows you to choose how to convert your documents using one of these two parameters:

pages converts every page to a JPG image
extract extracts every embedded image as JPG image

You can see in the example how all the images inside the uploaded files will be extracted to JPG files.