5 PDF conversions we made free, unlimited, and private (they run in your browser)

We build MakeHumanAI, a small toolkit of free document tools. The converters were the hardest part to get right, because the obvious way to build them is also the worst way for the user: upload the file to a server, convert it there, and hope the person trusts you with their documents.

Most people converting a PDF are converting something private. A contract. A payslip. A visa application. So we built our converters the other way around: the conversion happens in the browser, and the file never leaves the device.

Here are the five we use the most ourselves:

1. PDF to Word — for when someone sends you a "final" PDF and then asks for one small change. makehumanai.com/pdf-to-word

2. Word to PDF — the reverse trip, for sending a document that should arrive looking exactly the way you left it. makehumanai.com/word-to-pdf

3. PDF to Image — when a form, portal or application insists on JPG pages instead of a PDF. makehumanai.com/pdf-to-image

4. Excel to PDF — spreadsheets print terribly; a PDF freezes the layout before you share it. makehumanai.com/excel-to-pdf

5. PDF to Excel — for pulling a table out of a PDF report back into something you can actually sort and filter. makehumanai.com/pdf-to-excel

No sign-up, no daily limit, no watermark on the result. That was a deliberate choice — the tools sit next to our photo and signature resizers that people use for government and job application forms, and those forms are stressful enough without a paywall in the middle.

If you try them and something breaks, we genuinely want to know. Small tools live or die on the details nobody reports.

— The MakeHumanAI team