PDF Color Detector
Analyze a PDF and discover its dominant colors with hex codes and percentages.
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Your file never leaves your browserHow to Detect Colors in a PDF
- Upload the PDF whose color palette you want to identify.
- Click Detect Colors to sample pixels from up to 5 pages.
- View the top 5 dominant colors with their hex codes and percentage of total pixels.
Example
A company brochure is primarily white and dark blue. The color detector samples the first five pages and reports #ffffff at 62%, #003366 at 18%, #666666 at 9%, #cccccc at 7%, and #990000 at 4% — giving you a quick breakdown of the document's visual palette.
Common Use Cases
- Identifying a brand's dominant colors from a PDF brochure or style guide.
- Checking whether a PDF uses too many colors for economical printing.
- Extracting a color palette from a design mockup to use in other assets.
FAQ
- Why only up to 5 pages? Sampling every page in a large document would be slow. Five pages usually represent the overall palette well. Colors are quantized to 32-step buckets to group similar shades.
- Does this detect text color? Yes — all visible pixels (text, backgrounds, images, graphics) are sampled, giving you the overall dominant colors across the entire visible content.
- Is my file uploaded anywhere? No — analysis runs entirely in your browser.