Convert

Anything that can run on your own device is free and has no limits. Conversions that need a commercial engine carry a real cost per document, and those are the paid ones.

Free — runs in your browser

• JPG to PDFNo upload, no account, no size limit
• PNG to PDFNo upload, no account, no size limit
• PDF to JPGNo upload, no account, no size limit

Paid — planned

These are not built yet and there is nothing to buy. Each is listed with the reason it cannot be free.

• PDF to Word ProRebuilding an editable document from a page layout needs a commercial conversion engine, which bills per document.
• PDF to Excel ProRecovering table structure from a page layout needs a commercial conversion engine, which bills per document.
• OCR — make a scan searchable ProOptical character recognition runs on a cloud service, billed per page.

Why the line falls there

A tool that runs in your browser costs us nothing, however much you use it — so charging for it would mean adding accounts, quotas and payments to gate something that is free to provide. A tool that calls a commercial conversion engine is billed per document, so it has to be paid for. That is the whole rule, and it is why the free tier here has no daily caps, no watermarks and no file-size limits.