Get a photo or a logo out of a PDF

2026-10-29

Copying a picture out of a PDF viewer usually gives you a screenshot: the size of your screen, with whatever was drawn on top of it. When the picture is stored inside the PDF as an image, you can save that image itself instead.

Find the picture

1. Open the PDF in Extract Images by dropping it on the page or choosing Add PDF.
2. Scan the grid. The page number on each card helps when the document is long.
3. Select the card to open the preview. Check Size (in pixels), Format and Page.
4. Choose Download — or Prepare image and then Save or share on iPhone and iPad.

The file is named after the PDF, the page and its place on that page, such as brochure-p04-2.jpg, so several saved images stay in order.

Photos come back as JPG, many logos as PNG

A photo stored as JPEG data is usually saved as JPG with the label Original JPEG: the bytes from the PDF, not recompressed. Logos, icons and diagrams are often stored differently and come back as PNG. A logo with a transparent background keeps that transparency in the PNG; if the label reads Reconstructed, the transparency was rebuilt from the PDF’s mask and the edges may differ slightly.

When the logo isn’t in the grid

Not every logo in a PDF is a picture. Many are drawn as shapes or set as text, and those can’t be saved as an image file here. Small marks may also be waiting in the folded Small assets group — open it before you decide the logo is missing. Images that only live inside patterns, comments or fonts aren’t listed; a note says how many were left out.

Keep in mind that a picture in someone else’s PDF may belong to someone else. Check that you may reuse it.