Convert PDF files to EPUB ebook format. Each page becomes a reflowable chapter. Works with text-based PDFs. Runs entirely in your browser.
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Text-based PDFs only. Scanned / image PDFs have no extractable text — use an OCR tool first.
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Text-based PDF (not scanned)
PDF to EPUB converts a fixed-layout PDF into EPUB, the reflowable ebook format used by nearly every e-reader app and device. The distinction matters more than it sounds: a PDF page is a fixed sheet — text sits at exact coordinates, so on a phone screen you either read six-point type or pinch-zoom and pan across every line. EPUB text has no fixed page at all. It flows into whatever screen size, font, and line spacing the reader chooses, which is exactly what you want when a PDF ebook, a research paper, or a manuscript needs to be read comfortably on a Kindle, a Kobo, or a phone-sized reading app.
Reflow only works when there is real text to reflow. This tool reads the actual text layer out of your PDF — the same characters and coordinates a screen reader would see — and rebuilds them as ebook content. That means it handles the documents reflow was designed for extremely well: novels, single-column reports, articles, and manuscripts where paragraphs run top to bottom in a simple order. It does a poor job with complex layouts — multi-column magazine spreads, sidebars, and text wrapped around images — because there is no reliable way to know which column comes first without a full page-layout renderer. And it cannot do anything with a scanned page, because a scan is a photograph of a page rather than encoded text; there is nothing underneath to extract.
Rather than trying to guess where a real chapter starts — a heuristic that is wrong as often as it is right on typical documents — this converter keeps things predictable: every PDF page becomes its own chapter in the EPUB, and all of them are linked in a proper NCX navigation file, so your e-reader's table-of-contents menu lets you jump straight to "page 42" the same way you would flip to it in the original PDF. It is a deliberate trade-off: less magic, but a table of contents that always matches the source document.
On metadata, the EPUB's title is taken directly from your PDF's filename and the language is set to English; there is currently no field for entering a custom title, author, or cover image during conversion. If you want a properly attributed ebook with cover art, open the finished .epub afterward in the free Calibre desktop app and fill in the metadata there. On compatibility: EPUB is the standard for Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and virtually every reading app, but Amazon's own Kindle devices have historically read MOBI or AZW3 instead. That is changing — recent Kindles and the Kindle app increasingly accept EPUB directly or through Amazon's Send to Kindle import — but if your device is older, run the file through Calibre's format converter first.
Your PDF is loaded with pdfjs-dist, the same rendering engine behind Firefox's built-in PDF viewer, entirely inside your browser tab. For every page, the tool pulls out each positioned text fragment and its vertical coordinate, groups fragments that share roughly the same line into a paragraph, and starts a new line once the vertical gap says one has begun. Each page's paragraphs are wrapped into a standalone XHTML chapter file with a simple serif stylesheet built in. Those chapter files, together with an OPF manifest describing the book's structure and an NCX file listing every chapter in order, are packaged into a single ZIP archive with the .epub extension and the exact mimetype declaration the EPUB 2.0 spec requires. Text extraction, chapter generation, and ZIP packaging all run with JSZip inside your browser tab — nothing is ever transmitted anywhere.
Upload your PDF
Drag a PDF onto the upload area or click to browse. Text-based PDFs — novels, reports, manuscripts, articles — convert best; scanned pages have no text to extract.
Heed the file-type warning
The banner above the upload zone reminds you that scanned or image-only PDFs will not convert. If your file was scanned, run it through PDF OCR Search first to add a text layer.
Click "Convert to EPUB"
The tool reads every page and shows live progress — "Extracting page X of Y" — while it builds the chapter files.
Download happens automatically
As soon as the EPUB is assembled, your browser downloads the file automatically. A "Download again" link appears afterward if you need a second copy.
Open it in an e-reader
Load the .epub into Apple Books, the Kobo app, or Calibre. For Kindle devices that don't yet read EPUB natively, convert once more with Calibre or use Send to Kindle.
Enrich the metadata (optional)
Since conversion only sets a title and language automatically, open the file in Calibre afterward to add an author, series info, or cover art before filing it in your library.
Switching to an E-Ink Reader
Take a text-heavy PDF report, thesis, or book and convert it so paragraphs reflow properly on a Kobo or Kindle e-ink screen instead of rendering as a tiny fixed page.
Research Papers on the Commute
Turn a downloaded journal article or preprint into an EPUB so it is comfortable to read on a phone during a train ride, with adjustable font size instead of constant pinch-zooming.
Self-Published Authors
Convert a manuscript that only exists as a PDF into EPUB so it can be uploaded to ebook distribution platforms, then polish the metadata and cover art in Calibre before publishing.
Accessibility and Low-Vision Reading
Reflowable text lets readers bump the font size up dramatically or use a screen reader — something a fixed-layout PDF page actively resists.
Offline Reading of Long Documents
Convert lengthy documentation or a long-form report into an EPUB so it can be read offline on a phone without endless horizontal scrolling.
Digitizing an Old Text Library
Convert older text-based PDFs you already own into EPUB, one at a time, so they sit alongside the rest of your ebook collection in a consistent format.
Runs Entirely in Your Browser
Text extraction and EPUB packaging both happen locally with pdfjs-dist and JSZip — your document is never uploaded to a server.
Predictable Chapter Structure
One PDF page equals one EPUB chapter, linked in a real NCX table of contents, so page numbers in the original always map to a chapter you can jump to.
Valid EPUB 2.0 Output
The generated file includes the required mimetype declaration, OPF manifest, and NCX navigation — it opens cleanly in Apple Books, Kobo, and Calibre without repair.
No Page-Count Ceiling
Short white papers and multi-hundred-page manuscripts both convert; longer files simply take a little more time to extract.
Honest About Its Limits
It doesn't pretend to detect chapters from headings or pull embedded images — it does clean text extraction reliably instead of unreliable layout guessing.
Free to Start, Room to Grow
Convert files up to 40 MB with no account. Sign up free for an 80 MB limit, or go Pro for 250 MB per file.
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