We’ve all been there. You need to convert a PDF to an image, but the "free" websites have limits: "Only 3 files per day." "File too large, please upgrade." Privacy risks: You are uploading sensitive data to a random server. As a developer, I knew there was a better way. 💡 The Solution: Local-First Processing I built the PDF to Image Tool for freeapptools.co. The main goal was simple: The files should never leave the user's computer. By using the power of the modern browser, we can handle the conversion locally. No servers mean no costs for me and total privacy for you. 🛠 How it Works (The Tech Stack) To make this work smoothly, I used: Next.js: For a fast, SEO-friendly frontend. PDF.js: To render PDF pages onto a hidden HTML5 Canvas. React Image Crop: To allow users to manually select and crop specific parts of their documents. JSZip: To bundle multiple converted images into a single ZIP file for easy downloading. ✨ Key Features Bulk Upload: Drop 10 PDFs at once, and it will process them in a single batch.…