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PDF grayscale
Turn color PDFs into grayscale, high-contrast grayscale, or black & white. Convert every page or only the ones you choose — then download a new PDF.
Drop a PDF here
Drop anywhere, or choose an option below.
Files stay private while we process them, then they are deleted. Nothing is published unless you choose to share a result later.
PDFs are removed after processing and download.
Your documents are never published or indexed.
Convert the whole PDF or only selected pages.
Grayscale conversion runs privately in the background.
How it works
Step 1
Upload one PDF to preview every page.
Step 2
Pick standard, high contrast, or black & white.
Step 3
We create a new PDF — your original stays untouched.
PDF grayscale
Soft gray conversion that keeps visual detail.
Boost readability for scans and faded documents.
Optional threshold mode for stark print-like pages.
Leave cover pages or color inserts unchanged.
See grayscale on thumbnails before converting.
Every result is checked before download.
Formats & limits
Standard PDF files up to 50 MB.
Standard grayscale, high contrast, and black & white.
One PDF named document-grayscale.pdf by default.
Up to 500 pages per document.
Pages you exclude keep their original color and structure.
Documents are processed privately and removed after download.
Questions
No. Grayscale keeps many shades of gray. Black & white uses a threshold to push tones toward pure black or white.
Yes. Choose selected pages, ranges, odd/even, first, last, or skip first/last.
Not always. Grayscale can reduce color data, but encoding and quality settings still affect size.
Your file is handled for this job only. Download the result, then we remove it after a short window.
PDF toolkit
Compress with the PDF Compressor, convert pages to images with PDF to JPG/PNG, or crop pages with the PDF Crop tool.