Privacy
Why this PDF converter never uploads your files to the internet
Most PDF converters you find on Google work the same way: you upload your file, a server processes it, and it hands the result back for you to download. It works — but it means your document, which might be a contract, a payslip or a pile of personal data, travels to somebody else's computer and sits, however briefly, outside your control.
How a converter that runs in your browser works
Modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) ship a JavaScript engine capable of running fairly sophisticated programs with no server involved. This site uses that capability: when you drop a PDF onto the tool, the browser itself reads the file, extracts its contents and generates the converted document, all inside the tab you have open.
Specifically, we use pdf.js — the same technology Firefox uses internally to display PDFs without plugins — to read the text of the PDF, and we build the output file (.docx, .odt, .txt or .pdf) in the browser too, packaging it with standard JavaScript. At no point in that process is the content of your file sent over the network.
How to check it yourself
You don't have to take our word for it, and you shouldn't. Open your browser's developer tools (the F12 key), go to the Network tab, and convert a file. You'll see no upload request to our server or to anyone else's during the conversion — only the initial page load and, the first time, the small PDF reading engine, which also comes from our own domain.
What that means for you in practice
- You can convert documents containing sensitive information without worrying that they end up stored on somebody else's server.
- The tool keeps working on a slow or unstable connection, because it never has to upload the whole file.
- There is no "free files per month" cap driven by server costs, because there is no server doing any processing.
The trade-off is an honest one: all the conversion work is done by your own device, so processing time depends on how powerful it is, and no browser-only tool can guarantee a perfect visual replica of documents with very complex layouts. We prefer that balance — real privacy in exchange for being clear about the limits — over promising something we can't deliver.