The quick, honest way to get a file job done.
Convertavo is a set of free online tools for the small digital jobs that eat up your day: converting a PDF, pulling text out of a photo, shrinking an image, checking whether a picture was made by AI. You open a tool, drop in your file, and get the result in seconds. No software to install, no account for everyday use, and no watermark on what you download.
- 33
- tools in one place
- 8
- categories
- 12
- interface languages
- 1 hour
- until your files are deleted
A small team that got tired of fighting with files
Converting a file should take ten seconds. Too often it means installing software you don't want, creating an account you didn't ask for, or downloading a result stamped with somebody else's logo.
We started Convertavo in early 2026 to fix exactly that. We're a small team in Punjab, Pakistan, and we build the tools we kept wishing existed: PDF tools, image tools, OCR tools and AI detection tools, all in one place, all free for everyday use.
Convertavo was founded by Noman Mustafa.
We answer our own support email and write our own guides, and the site works in 12 languages, including Urdu, Hindi and Arabic, because good tools shouldn't be English-only.
What we hold ourselves to
- One job, done well.Each tool does one thing and explains its options in plain words.
- Free means free.No watermarks on results, and no signup for everyday use.
- Your files are yours.Deleted after an hour, never sold, never used to train anything.
- Honest limits.If a tool can't do something, the page says so up front.
Solve everyday digital problems in seconds, not afternoons
Our mission is simple: when you have a file that isn't in the shape you need, you should be able to fix it quickly, properly and without paying for it. That means online converters that work on any device, results you can trust, and pages that explain things the way a helpful person would.
Most jobs finish in a few seconds, in your browser, with nothing to install.
Proven engines do the work, so a scan stays sharp and a table keeps its columns.
The free tier is genuinely usable, not a trial that stops halfway through a job.
Free online tools for documents, images and more
33 tools in 8 groups. There are PDF tools to merge, split, compress and convert, and JPG to PDF for turning photos into a document. OCR tools read the text in images and scans, image tools resize, compress and convert photos, and AI detection tools estimate whether an image or a piece of writing was generated. Together they cover most document processing jobs, with a few productivity tools such as QR codes alongside. Pick a group to jump to it.
PDF tools 10 tools
Everything you need once someone sends you a PDF: turn it into something editable, fix it, shrink it, or put several together.
- Edit a contract or CV that only arrived as a PDF
- Get a report under an email or portal size limit
- Combine scans into one document, or pull out just the pages you need
Image tools 7 tools
Get photos to the right size, shape and format for wherever they are going, and cut a subject out of its background.
- Speed up a website with smaller images
- Open iPhone HEIC photos on Windows
- Put a product on a clean background
AI detection 2 tools
Check whether a photo, a piece of artwork or a piece of writing was likely made by AI, with the evidence behind each estimate.
- Check a viral photo before you share it
- Get a second opinion on an essay or an article
- See which passages read as machine-written
OCR tools 3 tools
Turn pictures of words and tables back into text you can copy, search and edit, from phone photos, screenshots and scanned documents.
- Copy text out of a screenshot or photo
- Make an old scanned PDF searchable
- Rebuild a printed table as a spreadsheet
Audio and video converters 3 tools
Fix a video that will not play, get it small enough to send, or keep only the sound.
- Play iPhone MOV videos on Windows or Android
- Fit a video under an upload or email limit
- Save a lecture or interview as an MP3
QR code tools 2 tools
Small productivity tools for the jobs in between: make a QR code for a link, a Wi-Fi network or a contact card, or read one from a picture.
- Put a menu or a website on a printed QR code
- Share your Wi-Fi without spelling out the password
- Open a QR code from a screenshot
Links 5 tools
Coming next: more AI-assisted tools and ways to automate the jobs you repeat. Read where we are heading →
Six reasons people keep coming back
Every tool works the same way: add your file, tweak a setting if you want, download. It all works from any browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone, with nothing to install. If you'd rather have it on your home screen, the Convertavo app installs from the browser in seconds.
We use proven engines rather than shortcuts, and where a result is an estimate, as with AI detection, the tool shows how confident it is and why.
Most conversions finish in a few seconds, and the tool list above shows roughly how long each one takes before you start.
Your files are deleted from our servers one hour after processing, automatically. Nobody reads them, and they are never used to train anything.
No jargon and no hunting through menus. Sensible defaults are filled in, so you can skip the settings and still get a good result.
Free for everyday use: 20 credits a day with no account, files up to 25 MB, and no watermark on any result. See the plans for more.
Built on software the world already trusts
Rather than reinvent file formats, Convertavo runs well-established open-source engines and puts a clear, careful interface on top. These are the main ones:
- PyMuPDF & pikepdfReading, merging, splitting, rotating and unlocking PDFs
- GhostscriptPDF compression that keeps text sharp
- LibreOfficePDF to Word with the layout kept
- Tesseract OCRReading text from images and scans
- Pillow & pillow-heifCompressing, resizing and cropping images, and HEIC
- rembgAI background removal
- FFmpegVideo conversion, compression and audio extraction
- An open-source image classifierEstimating whether an image was made by AI
Made for anyone with a file and a deadline
You don't need to know what a codec or a text layer is. Pick the task, and the tool handles the technical part.
Turn lecture PDFs into editable notes, photograph a page and copy the text, and merge assignments into one file.
Convert PDFs to Word or Excel, compress attachments, rotate scans and unlock documents you own, between meetings.
Cut out product photos, shrink images for a faster shop, share a plan across the team, or connect the tools to your own systems with the API.
Resize and crop for every platform, compress video for upload, and check whether an image was AI-generated before you share it.
Open an iPhone photo on a Windows PC, turn receipts into one PDF, or make a QR code for your Wi-Fi. Small jobs, done in a minute.
Your files are not our business
To convert a file we have to receive it, so here is exactly what happens to it after that, and how we keep the results worth trusting.
On quality, we test the tools against real files rather than ideal ones: blurry phone photos, crooked scans, PDFs with odd fonts. When a setting on a tool page stops doing what it says, we treat that as a bug, not a detail.
Uploads and results are removed automatically. The hour exists so you can download again, not so we can look.
We don't open your documents, sell data or train anything on what you upload.
Every upload and download runs over HTTPS, so your file can't be read on the way to us or back.
No watermarks, no stamped logos, and no installers bundled with downloads.
Fewer steps between you and the file you need
Today, most jobs on Convertavo are one tool, one file, one result. Where we want to go is fewer steps: AI that understands what is in a document rather than only its format, and automation that handles the jobs you repeat every week.
We will add those the way we have built everything else: one tool at a time, tested on real files, with the limits written down. We would rather ship one thing that works than announce five that don't.
Where we are heading
- Smarter document processing.Tools that read a document's structure, not just its pixels.
- More AI detection.Honest estimates for more kinds of content, always with the evidence shown.
- Automation.Ways to run the same steps on many files without doing each one by hand.
- Built on what you ask for.Many of our tools started as a message from someone who needed them.
Got a file that needs fixing? Start now, it's free.
Pick a tool and have your result in seconds. And if you need a tool we don't have yet, tell us: a real person reads every message.
Writing about files, or teaching with them? Link to Convertavo with a badge, a text link to any tool, or the free QR code widget for your own site.