Free Online PDF Converters
The number of different ways to create PDFs is growing daily. A few years ago if you didn’t have Acrobat, your options for creating PDFs were quite limited, but today there are hundreds, if not thousands, of free and commercial PDF conversion utilities out there that will allow you to create all the PDFs that you could possibly desire. In this post I will list a number of different free online PDF converters.
- PrimoPDF Online - Simply browse to the file to be converted on your machine and upload it for immediate conversion to PDF. Once converted, the resultant PDF file is made available via email.
- LOOP for Firefox - Upload, convert and combine your files to PDF from a tidy toolbar, without the conversion getting in the way of your Web browsing. LOOP for Firefox allows you to convert and combine files to PDF with the click of a button.
- PDF Online - Convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF, Excel XLS to PDF, Powerpoint PPT to PDF, Text TXT to PDF, HTML to PDF, most image formats (JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, etc) to PDF, and much more.
- ExpressPDF - Convert your Microsoft Word and Excel documents and Web pages to PDF.
- Media Convert - Create PDFs from pretty much any file format and convert PDFs to Text Files (.txt), Rich Text Format/MS Word (.rtf), Adobe Postscript (.ps) and Flash SWF (.swf).
- RSS 2 PDF - Convert your RSS feeds into PDFs.
As you can see, there are a number of ways that you can create PDFs online for free. My personal favourite is the LOOP for Firefox that I’ve previous mentioned here, but all of these online services performed pretty well in general and I am sure that one of the services will be to your liking.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Very useful post! Thank you. I tried PrimoPDF Online–it is excellent! Thanks for the tip! I use PDF Online early every day–it is excellent, too.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
No problem, glad you liked the post. Yes, PrimoPDF Online and PDF Online are both quality services. It is really great that people can create PDFs smoothly and quickly, without having to install anything or pay a dime.
Adobe have a similar service, but you only get 5 free conversions before you have to pay, so I excluded them from this list.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Hello,
I’ve been searching the internet, but i can’t seem to find an answer to my question, and mybe someone here can help…
I’ve not yet MADE a PDF yet, but am interested in doing so. If i scan printed documents with text on them, say a HMW assignment or study guide, and then want to convert it to PDF, will i be able to search for keywords or subjects on the page like i do in a regular PDF? If not, is there anything out there on the market that can?
Thank You in advanced
-Cisco