Convert EPUB to PDF online, free, without uploading the book: drop the EPUB and download a paginated A4 PDF with its chapters, headings and images in reading order. A PDF is the answer when an ebook has to be printed, sent to someone without an e-reader, or opened in an app or on a device that only understands PDF. This EPUB to PDF converter lays the book out in your browser, on your own device, so the file never leaves it. Every chapter starts on a new page, several books can go in one run, and DRM-free Kindle MOBI and AZW3 files convert to PDF here too. Worth knowing first: each page is drawn as an image, so the PDF prints and reads anywhere, but its text can’t be selected or searched.
How it works
- Drop the EPUB, or up to 20 books at once (1 GiB in total). Each gets a card with its title, author and chapter count, and a DRM-protected file is refused by name before you press anything.
- Open the chapter list to leave out what you don’t want printed, such as front matter or an index. The Output is already set to PDF.
- Press Convert & download. One book saves as its PDF with the page count shown; several arrive as one ZIP with a report naming each result.
Questions
- Can I select or search the text in the converted PDF?
- No. Each page is rendered at 150 dpi and stored as a JPEG image, which makes the PDF look the same in every viewer and printer, but the words are pixels rather than text: no copying, no Ctrl+F, nothing for a screen reader to read. If you need the words themselves, switch the Output to Text and you get a plain .txt of the same chapters.
- What page size and font does the PDF use?
- A4 pages with margins of about 17 mm (two-thirds of an inch), body text in Georgia or your system’s serif font at roughly 12.5 pt, and headings in bold. Images are centred and scaled down to fit the page, never enlarged. Size and font are fixed for now, so the book’s own fonts and styling are not reproduced.
- Will links, tables and the table of contents carry over?
- Not as working features. Headings, paragraphs, lists, block quotes and images come through; bold and italics become regular text, links are not clickable, and the PDF has no bookmarks. A contents page that is part of the book’s reading order prints as text. Tables are not rebuilt, and text placed directly in table cells may be missing.
- Does my file get uploaded?
- No. The models and all processing run inside your browser on your own device. You can verify this yourself: open your browser’s DevTools, watch the Network tab, and process a file: there are no uploads. After the first visit most tools also work fully offline.
- Does this work on books with DRM?
- No. DRM-protected books (most storefront purchases) are encrypted, and this tool does not and will not break that encryption. DRM-free books (self-published, converted, or from DRM-free stores) convert fine.
- Will the PDF look exactly like my e-reader?
- EPUB is reflowable, with no fixed pages, so the PDF is one honest pagination of the book at a readable size: chapters, paragraphs and images in order. Complex fixed layouts may differ from a particular reader’s rendering.