Extract Images
Extract images from PDF
Last updated:PDF image extraction pulls embedded images out of a PDF — not screenshots of the pages, but the original raster objects the PDF actually stores. LlamaPDF walks the PDF object tree, reconstructs each image at its native resolution, and packages them all into a ZIP via JSZip. Runs locally in your browser.
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How to extract images from a PDF
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Upload the PDF containing images by dragging it into the box above or clicking to browse your files.
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The tool scans your document and lists every embedded image with its resolution, format, and file size. Select the images you want to extract, or click Select All to grab everything.
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Click Extract and download your images. All image detection and extraction happens in your browser — your PDF never leaves your device.
Why use our PDF image extractor?
PDFs often contain high-quality images — product photos in catalogs, charts in reports, diagrams in technical manuals — that you need as standalone files. Screenshots or PDF-to-image conversion degrade quality, but direct extraction pulls out the original embedded images at their full resolution. Our tool identifies every image in the document and lets you download them individually or as a batch, preserving the exact quality and format stored in the PDF.
Extracted images often benefit from further processing. Use our image compressor to reduce file sizes for web use, resize images to specific dimensions, or remove the background for product photography. If you need entire pages as images instead of just the embedded graphics, try our PDF to JPG converter.
What is PDF image extraction?
Images inside a PDF are stored as embedded binary objects — typically in JPEG, PNG, or JPEG 2000 format — referenced by the page content stream. Image extraction locates these objects in the PDF's internal structure and saves them as standalone files without re-encoding or quality loss. This is fundamentally different from taking a screenshot or converting a page to an image, which rasterizes everything including text and backgrounds. Extraction gives you the original image at its native resolution, exactly as it was when the PDF was created.