Convert Word to PDF
Turn a Word document (.docx) into a PDF with real, searchable text, without uploading it anywhere.
Convert Word to PDF without uploading it
This free Word to PDF converter works online, in your browser: to convert a Word document to PDF, add the .docx here and click Convert to PDF. The document is laid out page by page in your browser, with its page size, margins, headers and footers, and saved as a PDF whose text can be searched and copied. Nothing is sent to a server, so a contract or a CV stays on your device.
| Input | Word files (.docx), one or several at once. Not the older .doc format. |
|---|---|
| Output | DOCX to PDF: one PDF for each document, with real text, clickable links and the document's own page size. Several documents come back as a ZIP. |
| Converted | Text and its formatting, styles, headings, bulleted and numbered lists, tab stops, tables with shading, borders and merged cells, pictures, headers and footers with page numbers, page breaks, and Hindi, Bengali and Tamil. |
| Not yet | Charts, SmartArt, text boxes, drawn shapes, footnotes, and text in columns. Charts, SmartArt, text boxes and shapes are left out and counted in the result; footnotes and columns are not. |
How to convert Word to PDF
Lines and pages break where Word breaks them
A converter that measures text differently from Word moves words from one line to the next, and then whole paragraphs from one page to the next, until the PDF no longer matches the document it came from. So on 26 October 2026 we opened three documents in Word, asked Word which word started each line and which page each line was on, converted the same documents here, and compared.
| Document | Pages, Word / here | Lines starting with the same word | On the same page |
|---|---|---|---|
| A4 essay, Times New Roman 12, 1.5 line spacing, justified, with a numbered list | 4 / 4 | 100 of 100 | 100 of 100 |
| Letter in Calibri with a title, bold and italic words, a link and two lists | 1 / 1 | 24 of 24 | 24 of 24 |
| Report with a table, a photo, a header, a "Page 1 of 4" footer, Arial and Times New Roman paragraphs and Hindi | 4 / 4 | 93 of 93 | 92 of 93 |
The one line on another page was a heading above a large photo near the foot of page 1. Word moved both to page 2; here they still fitted, by a few points. Getting there took two fixes the comparison found: table rows now count their border lines in their height, as Word does, and a page break no longer leaves an empty line at the top of the next page.
Fonts: the same widths, slightly different letters
Word's own fonts belong to Microsoft and cannot be shipped with a website, and a PDF made with whatever font a browser has would break its lines in different places. So each common Word font is replaced by a free font made to exactly the same widths:
- Calibri by Carlito, and Cambria by Caladea.
- Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New by Liberation Sans, Serif and Mono.
- Any other font by the nearest of these by kind: a serif font by Liberation Serif, a typewriter font by Liberation Mono, the rest by Liberation Sans. Their lines can break differently from Word's.
- Hindi, Bengali and Tamil letters by Noto Sans for their script.
Side by side the letters look a little different, but every word sits where it does in Word. The fonts a document uses are downloaded with the conversion: 0.6 to 0.8 MB for each Calibri style (regular, bold, italic), 0.4 MB for Arial or Times New Roman, and 0.2 MB for Hindi. Only the letters actually used go into the PDF: our one-page letter came to 31 KB.
What is left out, and how you will know
Charts, SmartArt, text boxes and drawn shapes are not converted yet. Rather than leave a silent gap, the result counts them: "1 chart could not be converted and was left out". If one matters, save that document as PDF from Word itself. Footnotes and text in columns are not converted either, and the result does not count them yet.
Going the other way, PDF to Word turns a PDF back into an editable document, and Compress PDF makes a PDF with many photos small enough to email.
Frequently asked questions
Will the PDF look exactly like my Word document?
The layout will: in our tests every line started with the same word as in Word and the documents had the same number of pages. The letters themselves differ slightly, because Calibri and Cambria cannot be shipped with a website; they are replaced by Carlito and Caladea, free fonts made to the same widths. Charts, SmartArt, text boxes and drawn shapes are left out for now, and the result tells you how many.
Can I convert a .doc file?
Not yet: DOC to PDF needs one step in Word first. Only .docx works here, the format Word has saved in since 2007. Open the .doc in Word, choose File > Save As, pick Word Document (.docx), and convert that.
Is the text in the PDF searchable?
Yes. The words are written into the PDF as text in the fonts above, not as a picture, so they can be searched, selected and copied, and links stay clickable.
Does it work with Hindi?
Yes. Hindi, Bengali and Tamil text is set in Noto fonts for those scripts, with the letters joined as they should be, and stays searchable text. Other scripts that the fonts here do not cover come out as question marks.
Can I convert several documents at once?
Yes. Add as many .docx files as you like; each becomes its own PDF, and they download together as one ZIP.
What happens to a password-protected document?
It is encrypted, so it cannot be read here, and the conversion stops and says so. Open the document in Word, remove the password under File > Info > Protect Document, save it, and convert that copy.