Convert Pdf to multi images (png,jpg)

In the (complete) TeXLive distribution there is an interesting utility called pdftoppm that can convert PDF to PNG whith some options (e.g., on my Windows machine C:\texlive\2018\bin\win32\pdftoppm.exe). The undeniable advantage is that there is no need to install anything.

Running cmd with pdftoppm -help, you get the following output that informs how the utility works:

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Therefore, it suffices to write, e.g.,

C:\path\to\my\PDFfile pdftoppm -f 1 -l 2 -r 300 -png Name_Of_My.pdf My_Images

to convert your two pages PDF-output generated by LaTeX (Name_Of_My.pdf) to separate image files My_Images-1.png and My_Images-2.png, where the prefix name (My_Images) of generated PNG files comes from the last part of the command line above.

The PNG output from your MWE above follows...

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If I understand correctly, the PDF->image step is not done by LaTeX, but by an external call to convert (part of ImageMagick suite). So maybe this is off-topic, but...

Basically, once you have installed it, you should be able to use this command (at least in Linux, I think it will be the same in other OSs): 

 convert -density 300 -background white -alpha remove -alpha off pdf-file.pdf page.png

and you'll have your pages at 300 dpi, named page-0.png, page-1.png and so on.

Notice that the latest convert can have problems. Be sure to read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42928765/convertnot-authorized-aaaa-error-constitute-c-readimage-453 and https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/396 and then if you have errors edit your /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml to say:

  <policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="4GiB"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="map" value="4GiB"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="width" value="128KP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="height" value="128KP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="area" value="1.28GP"/>
  <policy domain="resource" name="disk" value="8GiB"/>

  <policy domain="coder" rights="read|write" pattern="PS" />
  <policy domain="coder" rights="read|write" pattern="EPS" />
  <policy domain="coder" rights="read|write" pattern="PDF" />
  <policy domain="coder" rights="read|write" pattern="XPS" />

(In the original files, the rights were none and the limits much lower, which will hinder execution for a medium-size PDF file.

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