PDF & Document Converter
PDF is what you reach for when a document has to look the same everywhere – sent by email, printed or filed away. This page collects every route wandlio offers into and out of PDF: office files, images and scans, Markdown and HTML.
Which direction you need depends on the job. Applications, quotes and invoices usually go out as PDF; editing a PDF someone else made calls for plain text or a Word document instead.
All document and PDF converters
“Browser” means the conversion runs in your browser with no upload – your file stays on your device. “Server” means the file is sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to our servers in Germany and deleted right after conversion.
Office documents to PDF
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument Text (ODT), RTF and plain text files become a PDF that opens without the original program.
- Convert Word to PDF Server
- Convert Excel to PDF Server
- Convert PowerPoint to PDF Server
- Convert ODT to PDF Server
- Convert RTF to PDF Server
- Convert TXT to PDF Browser
Images and scans
Save photos as PDF – several images become one document with an A4 page each –, make scanned pages searchable, or read the text from an image. DjVu, a document format with strong compression, can be turned into PDF as well.
- Convert JPG to PDF Browser
- Convert Image to Searchable PDF (OCR) Server
- Convert Image to Text (OCR) Server
- Convert DjVu to PDF Server
Out of PDF
Converting PDF to Word, Excel or text relies on text recognition (OCR): you get the recognised text in uniform formatting, not a rebuild of the original layout. PDF to JPG saves every page of a PDF as its own image, right in your browser; several pages arrive as a ZIP.
- Convert PDF to Word (OCR) Server
- Convert PDF to Excel Server
- Convert PDF to Text (OCR) Server
- Convert PDF to JPG Browser
Markdown and HTML
Publish Markdown as an HTML page or PDF, or turn an HTML file into a PDF or Word document. You convert the file you select – entering a web address isn't possible.
- Convert Markdown to HTML Server
- Convert Markdown to PDF Server
- Convert HTML to PDF Server
- Convert HTML to Word Server
E-book to PDF
EPUB to PDF puts an e-book on fixed pages, for example for printing.
- Convert EPUB to PDF Server
PDF, Word or plain text – what do you need?
It mostly comes down to whether you want to hand a document over or keep working on it.
| If you want to … | Use … | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| send a document that looks identical everywhere | meant for reading and printing; keep the original if you plan to edit | |
| reuse the text of a PDF or scan | PDF to Word or text (OCR) | you get the text, not the layout – proofread names and numbers |
| edit a table from a PDF in Excel | PDF to Excel (OCR) | check columns and figures after converting |
| make scanned paperwork searchable | Image to searchable PDF | sharper scans work better; the Tesseract documentation suggests at least 300 dpi |
| archive a document for decades | PDF/A | a separate ISO standard (19005); a validator such as veraPDF tells you whether a file complies |
| share notes or docs written in Markdown | Markdown to HTML or PDF | HTML for the web, PDF for sending |
Document formats explained
- A page-based document format, standardised internationally as ISO 32000. Text, images and layout live in one file that looks the same on every device.
- PDF/A
- The archiving profile of PDF (ISO 19005, parts 1 to 4). It limits what a PDF may contain so that it still renders the same decades from now.
- DOCX, XLSX, PPTX
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint files belong to Office Open XML, standardised as ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500.
- ODT
- A text document in the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an open XML-based format for office applications standardised as ISO/IEC 26300.
- Markdown
- Plain text with a handful of symbols for headings, lists and links. Its creator, John Gruber, names readability as the overriding design goal.
- OCR
- Optical character recognition turns pixels into letters. Results depend heavily on the source – resolution, contrast and straight pages make the difference.
Where are documents converted?
With three exceptions, every conversion on this page runs on our servers in Germany. Your file is sent over HTTPS and deleted right after conversion – free, with no sign-up.
The exceptions are JPG to PDF, TXT to PDF and PDF to JPG: they run in your browser, so the file stays on your device. For confidential paperwork, check the label next to each pair before you start.
Guides on PDF and OCR
More on PDF standards, archiving and OCR:
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