Convert PDF to layered PSD

over 5 years ago from Ivan Kutskir, Programmer

Hi guys, my name is Ivan and I am the author of a free image editor Photopea :) It works in a browser, opens Sketch, PSD, and converts Sketch to PSD.

Sometimes, you may want to edit a PDF file, or copy some graphics out of it. Adobe Photoshop can not do it (it would rasterize it) and Illustrator may seem too complex. With Photopea, you can open PDF and save it as PSD.

PDF pages become artboards, vector shapes become vector layers, text becomes text layers and raster graphics becomes Smart Objects.

It is all possible thanks to the open-source library PDFI.js, which I also created. I thought it may be useful for you one day, so I am putting it here :)

19 comments

Jenny Nguyen, over 5 years ago
This is amazing!! Excellent work. Thanks for making this
EDIT: I just used the 'Vectorize Bitmap' and then 'Get SVG' function on several bitmap files to turn them into vector files, which I have tried on Adobe Illustrator's Image Trace but that tool failed to leave any of the bitmap files keep their transparent background ... your tool succeeded in keeping the transparent background after they turned into vectors!! It's magic!
EDIT2: To users, remember to 'Vectorize Bitmap' the image first so the image is a set of paths before you 'Get SVG' so the output file contains the lines and co-ordinates instead of the bitmap image being encoded in base64
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- Ivan Kutskir, over 5 years ago
  Thanks! I am glad it helped you! :) I think that the Vectorizer in Photopea is currently the best free vectorizer tool that is on the market.
  I wrote about it here on DN a few weeks ago: https://www.designernews.co/stories/92777-vectorize-raster-graphics-online
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James Lane, over 5 years ago
Holy shit! I've seen a few of these convert PDF to PSD's in my time and they are all naff. This is actually impressive! Agree with Marcel on the UI - but I'd be careful, you never know if Adobe have somehow copyrighted the icons and general layout?
Even this comment sounds like spam it's that good!
Ivan - small bug I noticed in latest Chrome on latest OS High Sierra Mac: If you use 'cmd' + '-' to zoom out, keep hold of 'cmd' the do 'cmd' + '+' to zoom in, it will continue to zoom out.
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- Ivan Kutskir, over 5 years ago
  Thanks! Your bug is very strange, I can not reproduce it on Windows (with Ctrl key). Could you please go here: http://jsfiddle.net/p45f44zb/3/ , go into the white rectangle and press the same keys?
  It should show names of keys that are pressed at the moment (as Photopea sees them). Does it show three keys even when you hold just two keys?
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  - James Lane, over 5 years ago
    https://youtu.be/-dlZXQPfARA
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    - Ivan Kutskir, over 5 years ago
      This is totally crazy. Webpages are not notified about releasing "-" and "=". I reported it as a bug to Chromium developers: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=811852
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Marcel van Werkhoven, over 5 years ago
Oh this probably some spam, clicks
Holy shit you build Photoshop in a browser, what magic is this 0_o
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- Ivan Kutskir, over 5 years ago
  Thanks! I made the UI similar to Photoshop, so it is familiar to Photoshop users. But it can load PSD, Sketch and GIMP files.
  I wrote some details here: https://blog.photopea.com/creating-photopea.html
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Oana Dusa, over 5 years ago
Cool stuff, dude!
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John Smith, 1 year ago
In fact, this is a fairly common task for different people, including students like me. Therefore, it is important for me to find a convenient and free tool for working with PDF, since I have a rather limited budget. I use site https://www.pdfplatform.com/ and I like that it has all the features I need.
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Julie Halcomb, 1 year ago
I think that converting PDF to various formats and vice versa is a fairly common task for people who work with documents.
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Dorin Frunzete, over 5 years ago
this is fantastic!
Thank you :)
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Andrzej T, over 5 years ago
this is what I've been looking for for a long time. Thank you.
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Ricardo Gavinhos, over 5 years ago
Very nice, bro! Thanks!
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Ibrahim Nergiz, over 5 years ago
Hohhhh. It is just cool! Congratulations for your effort.
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Andrew C, over 5 years ago
Wow really cool. I was looking for something like this recently to convert PDFs, PSDs, InDesign or Sketch files to HTML. This is a great web service that could be a huge benefit to the web dev community.
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- Ivan Kutskir, over 5 years ago
  That is something we have been thinking about for a while. To fully automate PSD to HTML conversion. We are discussing it here: https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/453
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Aman Mathur, over 5 years ago
I came across this while looking for a way to open PSDs online a few days back. Worked very well! Great tool.
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Aaron Wears Many Hats, over 5 years ago
Holy shit, that's really impressive!!
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