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Converters

Converters turn a value or a file from one format into another. All 43 run in your browser, which means a PDF, an image or an audio file you convert here is never uploaded to a server.

43 tools

Data and text formats

Files, images and PDFs

Colour

Units and measures

Dates and time

What the converters cover

The 43 converters split into five groups by what goes in. Twenty-two handle files, images and PDFs, including merging, splitting, cropping and rotating a PDF, and converting between image formats. Ten handle data and text formats, such as CSV to JSON and text to character codes. Eight handle units and measures, from length and weight to data size. One handles colour notation. Two handle dates and time.

File conversion happens on a canvas or through a PDF library loaded into the page, so the file stays in memory on your own machine. That is why a large file is limited by your available memory rather than by an upload cap, and why the tools keep working without a connection once the page has loaded.

Conversions that lose information say so on the page. Converting a PNG to JPEG discards transparency, and converting to a lossy format at a low quality setting cannot be undone by converting back.

Choosing between the converters

Start from what you are holding, not from the format you want, because several tools produce the same output from different inputs.

Choosing between the converters, matching a situation to the tool that answers it
What you haveWhich converter
A PDF you want smaller or reorderedSplit PDF removes pages, crop PDF trims margins. Cropping hides content rather than deleting it
Several PDFs to combineMerge PDF, which keeps the order you arrange them in
An image in the wrong formatImage converter for PNG, JPEG and WebP, or the dedicated SVG and TIFF converters
Pictures that are inside a PDFExtract images from PDF, which recovers the originals. PDF to image renders whole pages instead
A spreadsheet export to load into codeCSV to JSON, which uses an RFC 4180 parser so quoted commas survive
A measurement in the wrong unitThe 8 unit converters, each stating which conversions are exact and which are approximations

Frequently asked questions

Are files uploaded to a server when I convert them?

No. Every converter reads the file with the browser FileReader API and processes it in the page. There is no server that receives the file, which is a property of how the site is built rather than a policy. Closing the tab discards the file and the result.

Why does converting a PNG to JPEG give me a black background?

Because JPEG has no alpha channel, so transparency has to become a solid colour. The converters fill transparent areas with white by default and let you choose a different fill. Converting back to PNG restores the alpha channel but not the pixels the fill replaced.

Is there a size limit on the files these converters accept?

The practical limit is your available memory, because the file is held in the page rather than streamed to a server. Files above 100 MB are refused by the multi-file tools, since a browser tab will not handle one reliably. A single large PDF often works well past that.

Do unit conversions here use exact factors or rounded ones?

Exact factors wherever an exact factor exists. One inch is defined as 25.4 mm, so length conversions are exact. Conversions between calendar units are approximations, because a month has no fixed length, and each of those tools states that on its own page.