Documents conversion
Convert PDF to WebP
Updated Jul 2026
PDF is a document format that can hold many pages of text and images, while WebP is a compact image format made for the web. To convert PDF to WebP, open the file in a converter and export each page as an image. Doing this on your own computer means the document never has to be uploaded anywhere to make the conversion happen.
- Extension
- Type
- Documents
- Typically
- The universal document format
- Metadata
- Carries EXIF
- Extension
- .webp
- Type
- Images
- Typically
- Modern web images
- Compression
- Lossy
- Transparency
- Supported
Convert PDF to WebP on your own computer. Nothing uploads.
How to convert PDF to WebP
- Open Morphjet and drag in the PDF you want to convert. Add a single file or a whole folder of PDFs at once.
- Choose WebP as the output format. A multi-page PDF turns into one WebP image per page.
- Convert. The WebP files are written next to your original PDF, and nothing leaves your machine.
PDF vs WebP: what actually changes
| WebP | ||
|---|---|---|
| What it's for | Multi-page documents, text and images together | A single web-friendly image |
| Pages | Can hold any number of pages | One image per page after conversion |
| File size | Larger, especially with embedded fonts or images | Smaller, built for fast loading on the web |
| Quality | Lossless, text stays sharp at any zoom | Lossy by default, a small quality trade for a smaller file |
| Transparency | No | Yes, supported |
| Keeps metadata | Yes, author, title, and creation date | Not carried over automatically |
When to convert, and when not to
Convert PDF to WebP when you need to show a page as an image on a website, in an email, or in an app that expects a picture rather than a document, such as a thumbnail or a preview.
Keep the PDF if you need the text to stay selectable and searchable, or if the document has more than a page or two, since WebP only ever holds one page per image.
Why not just use an online converter?
PDFs often carry metadata like the author's name, the software used to create them, and sometimes edit history, and some also embed images with their own location data. An online converter would receive the whole document, metadata included, just to turn it into an image. Converting on your own computer keeps the document, and everything attached to it, off other people's servers.
Questions
Does converting PDF to WebP lose quality?
Text and lines that were crisp vector shapes in the PDF get rasterized into pixels, and WebP's default compression is lossy, so there's some quality loss. For web use it's usually not noticeable, but it's not a good choice for anything you plan to zoom into or print.
What happens to a multi-page PDF?
Each page becomes its own WebP image. A ten-page PDF becomes ten separate image files, not one.
Will the WebP file keep the PDF's metadata?
No, not automatically. The author, title, and creation date stored in the PDF generally don't carry over to the image files.
Can I still select or search the text after converting?
No. Once a page becomes a WebP image, the text is just pixels, so you can't select, copy, or search it anymore.
Can I convert PDF to WebP without uploading the document?
Yes. A desktop app like Morphjet converts the file on your own computer, so the PDF never has to travel over the internet to get turned into an image.
Morphjet converts PDF, WebP, and 1,800+ other formats, all on your machine. Launching this July.