This article provides a quick guide on how to copy image from PDF without losing quality on Windows or Mac. It’s handy information to have for copying the images from a PDF document to Word, PowerPoint, or to another PDF file.

Table of Contents

  1. Copy Image from PDF to Word/PowerPoint/PDF without Losing Quality
  2. Copy Image from PDF in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for Free
  3. Copy and Paste Image from PDF to Another Online Free
  4. Copy Photo from PDF to Word/PPT/Excel in Mac Preview

Copy Image from PDF to Word/PowerPoint/PDF without Losing Quality

There are dozens of guides out there on copying PDF image. Also you can use 3rd-party tools, which can do a lot of good: easier, faster, more robust, to copy a image from a selectable PDF, scanned PDF, PDF with or without a background.

I’ve found Adobe Acrobat has everything I need to create my own PDFs, from basic and advanced selection tools for create/edit to hundreds of customizable options. It brings pro-level PDF making to our device.

In a selectable PDF, Acrobat lets users to select and copy the image to clipboard, to paste to Word, PowerPoint or to another PDF file. In a scanned PDF, Acrobat recognizes texts and images in the file, making the file selectable and allowing image or text copying. It can accurately recognize all images in a PDF, including watermark image, background image. More than this, it can insert, cut, delete, replace, link, crop, rotate, flip, arrange and even edit images in the PDF with tools on your device. I am also a big fan of its intuitive and fluid interface.

Acrobat used to have a high pricing tier, but it becomes affordable now, due to the rat race in this filed, you can have a 7-day trial first, and then unlock the full features if you feel necessary.

Here is how to copy image from PDF to Word, Powerpoint or to another PDF file:

  1. Grab a free trial of Adobe Acrobat, install and fire up the app on your machine.
  2. Open the PDF in the app by drag and drop.copy image adobe 1
  3. Head to Edit, right click on the image to Copy or Export. If you want to paste the image to another PDF, you should export the image as a file.copy image adobe 2
  4. Then insert the image file to another PDF by heading to Edit> Image, or directly paste to a Word/Powerpoint file.add image to pdf adobe

Tips:

To copy image from a scanned PDF, you have to go to All tools> View more> Scan & OCR> Recognize Text> In This File to make the file selectable first, then select and copy the image to another file.

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Copy Image from PDF in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for Free

Google Chrome

Google Chrome browser can open PDF files, but doesn’t allow copying and pasting images, we have to either capture the image with shortcut on our device or open the document in Google Docs to copy the image. Here we will look at how to copy image from PDF in Google Docs. This method can copy high quality images, but when open PDF in Google Docs, the formatting will be changed.

  1. Launch Google Chrome, login into your Google account and head to Drive.
  2. Upload the PDF file, right click to open with Google Docs.
  3. Select the image and copy the image from your PDF.copy pdf image google
  4. Paste to a Word, PowerPoint. If you want to paste to another PDF file, you need to open that file in Google Docs and insert.

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge has the feature to take screenshot with shortcut, you just need to open the PDF in Microsoft Edge browser, then capture and copy the image from PDF.

  1. Launch Microsoft Edge browser, drag and drop the PDF in a new tab and open it.
  2. Use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S to capture the image as a file. Or right click on the photo and choose Copy.copy image edge
  3. Open the document that you want to copy the image to, press Ctrl+V to paste the image. To paste the image to another PDF, you still need a PDF editor like Acrobat.

Copy and Paste Image from PDF to Another Online Free

Don’t need dedicated software to handle your PDFs at this moment? From Acrobat online to Sejda, you can access a lot of fantastic applications online to copy and paste image from a PDF to another. In this guide, we will exclusively introduce Sejda for you, it is the only one that allows editing PDF online completely free (3 free tasks per hour). Also, it is a sophisticated platform with plentiful of tools: create, combine, split, rotate, compress, protect, fill, ocr, edit…

Here is how to copy and paste image from PDF online free:

(limits: 3 free tasks per hour, up to 200 pages or max 50MB)

  1. Navigate to sejda.com/pdf-editor, upload your PDF.
  2. Go to Images, select the image you want to copy.copy pdf image online 1
  3. Right click on the image and choose Copy Image or Save Image As.copy pdf image online 2
  4. Then paste the image to another document like Word, PPT. If you want to past the image file to another PDF in Sejda, open the file and go to Images, then insert.

Copy Photo from PDF to Word/PPT/Excel in Mac Preview

Even in the packed filed of PDF editing tools, Preview stands out. It is the built-in PDF app for Mac users to markup and manage PDF pages. Though Mac users cannot directly copy image from PDF and paste to other document in Preview, we can use its selection tool to select the whole image and copy to another office document. But Preview won’t allow copying and pasting a photo to another PDF.

  1. Open PDF in Preview.
  2. Show Markup Toolbar, choose the Rectangular selection tool.copy pdf image preview 1
  3. Select the image by dragging the crosshair. Press Command+C on Mac to copy the image.copy pdf image preview 2
  4. Then paste the image to a Word/PowerPoint by pressing Command+V.

Conclusion

If you know how to take a screenshot, you will be able to copy an image from your PDF easily. But if you want to copy precisely and professionally, the paste to another PDF/Word or others, Adobe Acrobat and Sejda are better to try, they allow users to copy image to clipboard and paste easily, also they can export the image as an individual file to be loaded into a file flexibly.