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Screenshotting a PDF page gives you a re-rendered, re-compressed copy of an image that was already sitting inside the file at full resolution. Here's what's actually happening, and how to get the original.
You right-click, save, and end up with a 400px file from a page that clearly showed something sharper. That's not bad luck — it's how modern image delivery works, and it's fixable.
AI image description services charge per image and give you a different answer every run. For most website images the information you need is already on the page — which makes rules cheaper, faster and more predictable.
The export runs, the import says success, and then you find variants have become separate products and half your URLs are 404ing. Here's the list of what breaks, in the order it usually breaks.
The import succeeded, the catalogue count matches, and sales are down. Products can exist perfectly in an admin panel and be completely unreachable by a customer — here's how that happens.
We have probably hit it before. Tell us what you see and you will get a straight answer.