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Portable Document Format
PDF fixes a document’s layout so it renders identically everywhere. That is its strength for printing and contracts and its weakness for reading on a phone, and it is why text extraction from PDF is reconstruction rather than reading.
- Extension
- MIME type
- application/pdf
01 Convert PDF to something else
- PDF to JPG One image per page, at the resolution you choose.
- PDF to PNG Sharper text than JPEG, at the cost of larger files.
- PDF to TXT Reassembles paragraphs instead of dumping one line per row.
- PDF to Word Editable text back out of a PDF, with a straight account of what that costs.
- PDF to EPUB Text that reflows to your screen instead of pretending to be paper.
02 Convert something else to PDF
- EPUB to PDF Follows the spine, so chapters come out in reading order.
- TXT to PDF Re-wraps to the page rather than cutting long lines off.
- Markdown to PDF Structure survives. No Node, no headless browser, no upload.
- JPG to PDF The JPEG is embedded as-is. No re-encoding, no quality loss.
- PNG to PDF Lossless embedding, transparency handled honestly.
- HEIC to PDF For the form that wants a PDF and your phone gave you a HEIC.
- Word to PDF Your document, rebuilt as a PDF — without sending it anywhere.
- Excel to PDF Every row on the page, nothing cropped, nothing uploaded.
- XLS to PDF The 1997 workbook format, read here and put on a page.
- CBZ to PDF Every page, exactly as it was stored.
- CBR to PDF The RAR-based comic format, opened here and put into a PDF.
- PowerPoint to PDF Every slide’s words and pictures, one page each. Not a picture of the deck.
- MOBI to PDF For printing, or for something that will only take a PDF.
- AZW3 to PDF Fixed pages out of a reflowable book, when that is what you need.
- XPS to PDF For the file nothing on your machine will open any more.
03 Related formats
Opening a .pdf file
If you landed here because something handed you a .pdf file and
nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a
reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs
in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine
and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.