Est. 2026
PDF / Grayscale
Pages are rebuilt as grayscale JPEGs in this tab. Selectable text on converted pages is gone — that is the honest path. Selected pages only, or all.
Last checked: September 2026. Confirm millimetres, pixels, and KB on the official form. Not a government website.
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pdf-lib cannot honestly recolour vector text and images to gray. Converted pages are rasterised and saved as grayscale JPEGs. Selectable text on those pages is gone. Pages you do not select are copied. Last checked: September 2026.
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No, on pages we convert. pdf-lib cannot recolour vectors honestly. We rasterise those pages as grayscale JPEGs.
Click pages first. Unconverted pages are copied, text intact.
No. Work runs in this browser tab. Close it and the PDF is gone.
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