PDF Converter
Convert PDFs, images, photos, and text with free PDF tools.
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
Which PDF tool do you need for your file?
The hub links eleven tools, each built for one job. Five of them create PDFs: Word to PDF takes DOCX or TXT, Excel to PDF takes XLSX or CSV, PPT to PDF takes PPTX, Text to PDF takes typed or pasted text, and JPG to PDF combines photos and scans. Going the other way, PDF to Word extracts selectable text into a DOCX and PDF to JPG saves each page as an image. Four more change an existing PDF: Merge PDF joins files, Split PDF pulls out pages or ranges, Compress PDF reduces the size and Edit PDF places new text or a drawn signature on pages.
Many jobs take two tools in a row. To send a 3-page offer letter and photos of two ID cards as one file, turn the photos into a 2-page PDF with JPG to PDF, then put the letter and that PDF into Merge PDF for a single 5-page document. If the upload limit is tight, finish with Compress PDF.
Do the office converters keep the original layout?
They keep the words and drop most of the layout. Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PPT to PDF and PDF to Word pull the text out of the file and set it again in a plain layout, so fonts, images, colours and exact positions are lost. The limits differ by tool: Excel to PDF prints up to 90 rows and eight columns, PPT to PDF gives each slide one A4 landscape page of text, and PDF to Word turns every line of the PDF into a separate paragraph.
Helvetica, the font the PDF makers use, has no rupee sign and no Devanagari, so text containing ₹ or Hindi comes out garbled. When the look of a document matters, or it is written in Hindi, use the Save as PDF or Export option in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs or LibreOffice.
Do these PDF tools upload your files?
The eleven tools linked here read and process your files in the browser with pdf.js, pdf-lib, jsPDF and JSZip, and they do not send the document to a server. Three other PDF tools on OneClickUse do use a server: the Aadhaar PDF Password Remover, the Bank Statement Password Remover and the Bank Statement Converter send the file and any password you type to a processing service.
Browser processing has limits of its own. A long or image-heavy PDF is held in your device's memory while it is processed, so close other tabs if a large file stalls. Keep the page open until the download starts, since nothing is stored on a server for you to fetch later.