Grayscale PDF
Strip the color out of a PDF, useful for printing or reducing file size.
This tool rasterizes each page to apply the grayscale effect, so text will no longer be selectable in the output PDF.
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How It Works
- 1Upload your PDF file.
- 2Click Convert to Grayscale.
- 3Every page is rendered and desaturated.
- 4Download the black-and-white PDF.
Features
- Applies to every page automatically
- Works on both text and image-based PDFs
Privacy
This tool runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly and Canvas — your PDF is never uploaded to a server.
Frequently Asked Questions
Often it decreases, since grayscale images compress more efficiently than color ones — though pages are re-rendered as images either way.