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Grayscale PDF

Turn colours into shades of grey (text stays sharp), or into pure black and white.

About Grayscale PDF

This tool removes the colour from a PDF. Shades of grey keep the text and drawings as they are; black and white turns each page into a two-tone image.

What you add
One PDF file.
What you get
One grayscale or black and white PDF.

How to use it

  1. Add your PDF.
  2. Choose shades of grey or black and white.
  3. Start.
  4. Download the PDF.

Settings

  • Result: shades of grey, or black and white.
  • Black and white threshold: lighter than this becomes white.
  • Resolution (dpi) of the black and white page images.

Good to know

  • In shades of grey the text stays selectable.
  • In black and white the pages become images, so their text can't be selected or searched.

Your files are processed only for this operation and deleted when it finishes. No one at Tools War can view what you upload.