Word to PDF
Lay out the text of a DOCX, TXT, Markdown or HTML file as a PDF, keeping line and paragraph breaks.
Word to PDF workspace
Which files this reads
Drop a file here
or click to browse your computer — .txt, .md, .markdown, .html, .htm, .docx, up to 100.00 MB per file
Your file stays on this device
Everything here runs as JavaScript inside your browser tab. Your document is read into the tab's own memory, processed there, and handed straight back to you as a download. It is never uploaded to a server, and the PDF rendering engine is served from this site rather than a third-party CDN.
Using Word to PDF
Upload a .docx, .txt, .md, .html or .htm file.
Convert. The text is read out of the file and flowed onto A4 pages with the line and paragraph breaks intact.
Download the PDF, whose text stays selectable because it was written rather than scanned.
Text is extracted from the uploaded file, then drawn line by line onto PDF pages with jsPDF using the standard built-in fonts. Visual styling from the source document is not reproduced, and the character set is limited to Western European Latin.
Word, Text, Markdown and HTML to PDF
This converter takes the words out of a document and lays them onto PDF pages. It is deliberately narrow: it handles text and paragraph structure well, and it does not attempt to reproduce visual design at all. Knowing that up front will save you a disappointing download.
Accepted files
| Extension | Notes |
|---|---|
.docx | Modern Word format. Text is read from the document body. |
.txt | Plain text, any line ending. |
.md | Markdown source, treated as text. |
.html, .htm | Markup is stripped; the readable text remains. |
Legacy .doc — the binary format Word used before 2007 — is not supported and is rejected by name at upload. If that is what you have, open it in Word or LibreOffice and save as .docx first.
What survives, and what does not
Line breaks and paragraph breaks come through. That is the guarantee. A three-paragraph memo arrives as three paragraphs on an A4 page with sensible margins, in a standard serif face, and it will read cleanly.
Everything below is dropped, because reconstructing it in a browser without the original layout engine produces something worse than plain text:
- Fonts, sizes, bold, italics and colour
- Embedded images and charts
- Tables — cell text may appear, but the grid does not
- Multi-column layouts
- Headers, footers, page numbers and footnotes
- Styles, numbered heading schemes and a generated table of contents
If your document is a CV with a two-column layout and a headshot, this tool will give you the words and nothing else. Use Word's own Save As PDF instead — it has the layout engine, and no web page can match it.
Character set: Latin only
The PDF is built with the standard 14 base fonts, which cover the CP1252 range: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, the Nordic languages and most of Western Europe.
Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters cannot be encoded. Rather than dropping them silently or filling the page with black boxes, the converter checks the text first and refuses with a message naming the problem. A file that is mostly English with a couple of Greek letters in a formula will still be refused, which is annoying but honest — the alternative is a PDF with holes in it that you might not notice until someone else does.
Curly quotes, em dashes, the euro sign and accented characters are all fine.
Where this tool earns its place
Given the limitations, when is it the right choice?
- Converting a plain-text export, a log, or a set of notes into something you can attach to an email.
- Turning Markdown drafts into a readable PDF without installing anything.
- Producing a text-only version of a
.docxwhen the recipient only needs the content. - Working on a machine where you cannot install Word, LibreOffice or a print-to-PDF driver.
For anything where appearance matters, export from the application that made the file.
After the conversion
Output is one PDF, portrait A4, downloaded directly. Since the text was written by the converter rather than scanned, it stays selectable and searchable — you can feed it straight into Add Watermark or Protect PDF without losing anything.
Going the other direction — pulling text out of an existing PDF — is PDF to Word.
Frequently asked
Will my formatting, images and tables come across?
No. Line and paragraph breaks are preserved, and everything else is not: fonts, sizes, bold and italics, colour, images, table grids, columns, headers, footers and footnotes. For a document where appearance matters, export to PDF from Word itself.
Can I convert an old .doc file?
No, the legacy binary format is rejected by name at upload. Open it in Word or LibreOffice, save it as .docx, and convert that instead.
Why was my document refused because of its characters?
The PDF is built with the standard base fonts, which cover Western European Latin text only. Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari and CJK characters cannot be encoded, so the file is refused up front instead of producing a page with gaps in it.