Local PDF — PDF to Word / Markdown in your browser
Your PDF stays local. Everything runs inside your browser, nothing is uploaded.
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Why Local PDF
- Files never leave your computer. There is no server: parsing, recognition and file generation all run in your browser, even offline.
- Real, editable Word. Paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, images and headers/footers are rebuilt, not pasted in as page screenshots.
- Scans recognised automatically. Pages without a text layer go through OCR, covering Chinese, English, Japanese and 50+ other languages.
- Free and open source. MIT licence. No account, no limits, no watermark.
How it works
- Drop a PDF onto the page, paste it with Ctrl+V, or try the sample file first.
- Text extraction, layout analysis and OCR for scanned pages all run inside your browser; the file is never sent anywhere.
- Download Word or Markdown, and open the conversion report to see which pages deserve a second look.
Why convert locally
Most online converters upload your file to a server. Local PDF has no server: it is a static page, the conversion engine runs in your browser, and you can verify that in the network panel. Contracts, statements and papers never leave your computer.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. It is open source under the MIT licence, needs no account, and has no limit on the number or size of files beyond the memory of your computer.
- Does it upload my file?
- No. There is no server to upload to, and the page keeps working offline once loaded. Only the OCR components are downloaded the first time a scanned page needs them.
- Can it convert scanned PDFs?
- Yes. Pages without a text layer are recognised with PaddleOCR inside your browser, covering Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese and more than 50 other languages.
- How faithful is the Word output?
- Text from PDFs with a text layer is exact; paragraphs, headings, lists, ruled tables, images and headers/footers are rebuilt. Fonts are not embedded, so line breaks can shift; the report flags pages with low confidence.
- Which browsers are supported?
- Recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari 16.4 or later on a computer. Phones handle small files, but large scans can run out of memory.
- Can it turn Word, Markdown and images into PDF?
- Yes. Word and Markdown documents are laid out by your browser and written as vector PDFs with selectable text, and images are combined into one PDF in the order you arrange them, all on your computer. Fonts are not embedded (Chinese, Japanese and Korean text is shown with the reader's own fonts), so the files stay small; text boxes and WordArt may come out differently.
Source code on GitHub · MIT licence