Turn PBM images into PNG. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop PBM files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop PBM files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the PNG, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The PBM to PNG converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your images are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
PBM holds only black and white and few everyday apps open it. PNG keeps every pixel exactly and supports transparent backgrounds. PBM is at home in black-and-white line art and scanned text in command-line tools; PNG is the usual choice for screenshots, logos, graphics with text or transparency.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can resize the result.
PBM holds only black and white, so the result has no greys.
PBM is the black-and-white member of the Netpbm family: every pixel is a single bit, either on or off, with no greys. It suits fax-like scans and bitmaps and was the format other Unix tools used to hand pictures to each other.
Opens in GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView and Unix graphics tools; not browsers
PBM converterPNG stores every pixel exactly, with optional transparency. It was created as a patent-free replacement for GIF and is the standard for screenshots, logos and interface graphics. Photos saved as PNG are several times larger than the same photo as JPG.
Opens in Every browser, phone and image app
PNG converter| PBMPBM image | PNGPNG image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Portable Bitmap | Portable Network Graphics |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image |
| Compression | None | Lossless |
| Transparency | No | Yes, full alpha channel |
| Animation | No | No (the APNG extension aside) |
| Introduced | 1988, by Jef Poskanzer | 1996, by the PNG Development Group |
| Opens in | GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView and Unix graphics tools; not browsers | Every browser, phone and image app |
| Best for | Black-and-white line art and scanned text in command-line tools | Screenshots, logos, graphics with text or transparency |
| File extension | .pbm | .png |
No. The PBM to PNG conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: PNG stores the decoded pixels exactly. The result is identical in content.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the PBM file, press Convert and save the PNG. There is nothing to install.
Pictures of up to 120 megapixels are accepted (for example 12,000 by 10,000 pixels); a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.