PDF to Image
What It Does
Renders selected pages of a PDF as images in PNG, JPG, or WebP format. Supports DPI control, resize dimensions, background color fill, and multiple output modes.
When to Use
- Generate thumbnail previews of PDF pages
- Convert PDF pages to images for social media (OG images)
- Create high-DPI images for print
- Extract specific pages as images
Required Inputs
Provide one of:
url— public URL to a PDFfile— base64-encoded PDF- Multipart upload with
filefield
Authentication
Send your API key in the CLIENT-API-KEY header.
Get your free API key at https://pdfapihub.com. Full API documentation is available at https://pdfapihub.com/docs.
Use Cases
- PDF Thumbnails — Generate preview thumbnails for document management systems
- Social Media Previews — Create OG images (1200×630) from the first page of a PDF
- E-commerce Product Sheets — Convert product PDF spec sheets into gallery images
- Document Previews — Show image previews of PDFs in web apps without embedding a PDF viewer
- Print-Ready Exports — Export PDF pages as high-DPI images for print workflows
- Slide Extraction — Extract individual slides from PDF presentations as images
Key Options
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
page / pages |
Single page or range (e.g. "1-5") |
image_format |
png (default), jpg, webp |
dpi |
72–300 (default 150) |
width / height |
Resize output dimensions |
background_color |
Fill transparent areas (hex) |
output |
url, base64, both, file |
Limits
- Max 100 pages per request
- DPI range: 72–300
- Max resize dimension: 10000 px
Example Usage
curl -X POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/pdf/image \
-H "CLIENT-API-KEY: your_api_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://pdfapihub.com/sample-pdfapi-intro.pdf",
"pages": "1-3",
"image_format": "jpg",
"dpi": 200,
"output": "url"
}'