Sejda PDF to Word · PDF to Word
Upfront free limits, no-login ad-free export, and 2-hour auto-deletion; however, it outputs legacy .doc without native tables, suiting text extraction.
US-West (California, AS2914)
DOC · Output attached · Open native file ↗
Subsequent pricing and service checks are shown separately without altering historical scores.
One run does not establish all complex scenes, untested paid maxima or long-term uptime.
Plans & historical pricing
Sejda personal web and desktop plans (Free / Web Week Pass / Web Monthly / Desktop+Web Annual); USD · 2026-10-21
One-time payment; does not auto-renew
Recurring monthly billing; cancel anytime
Recurring annual billing; cancel anytime
4 plan / billing-period records, all listed; — means that period is not recorded.
The converter page states the free allowance (documents up to 50 pages or 50 MB, 3 tasks per hour, files deleted after 2 hours); the official pricing page (/upgrade) lists the 7-day Web Week Pass (USD 5 one-time payment), Web Monthly (USD 7.50/month), and Desktop+Web Annual (USD 63/year).
Cancellation, sources & verification record
Web Week Pass is a one-time 7-day payment with no auto-renewal; monthly and annual plans use recurring billing and can be cancelled anytime.
Sejda official pricing and upgrade page ↗ · 2026-10-21 Capture 1 ↗
Pricing recorded on the test date · 2026-10-19
Free tier (≤50p/50MB, 3 tasks/hr); Web Week Pass $5/7 days (one-time payment); Web Monthly $7.50/mo; Desktop+Web Annual $63/yr
Transparent free quota + $5 7-day one-time pass + Monthly/Annual subscriptions
Historical context only; not current purchase guidance.
Delivery & access
- Free delivery record
- Full-document watermark-free legacy .doc (OLE2 Word 97-2003, 215.0 KB, 100% text retention)
- Watermark
- Watermark-free
- Free allowance
- Unauthenticated free users can run up to 3 tasks per hour for documents up to 50 pages or 50 MB
- Account requirements
- No login required for free conversion; optional Pro account sign-in
- Maximum specification record
- Full 2-page watermark-free legacy .doc (OLE2 Word 97-2003, 215.0 KB)
May include advertised capabilities; this does not establish a tested paid tier.
- Batch & API
- Paid plans unlock batch multi-file processing and the offline Sejda Desktop application
- Manual refinement
- Not recorded or not verified
Tested result & sample
Sejda excels in upfront quota transparency and privacy restraint (91/100 Honesty), exporting an unwatermarked document in 11.36s without login and retaining 100% of text across both pages—however, it delivers a legacy binary OLE2 .doc (215.0 KB) rather than modern .docx and does not reconstruct native Word tables (table_count = 0).
- Fixture
- anchor_pdf2word_v1
- Recorded environment
- US-West (California, AS2914)
- Network-observed server wait
- 11.36 s
- End-to-end reference
- 11.36 s
Network wait includes round trips, queuing and polling error, not pure inference time. Local timings depend on the device; repetition counts are not standardized in legacy records.
Experience, rules & trust
- Disclosure
- Page limit (50 pages), file size limit (50 MB), and 3-tasks/hour quota are disclosed upfront below the hero upload button
- Interaction
- Converts our 2-page anchor PDF via the "Edit text" mode and downloads the full document without login, ad pop-ups, or email capture gates.
- Entity record
- Sejda BV (Amsterdam PDF Utility Vendor)
- Origin
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Domain history record
- 2016–Present
- Third-party tracking record
- Not recorded or not verified
- External information
- Not recorded or not verified
- Processing
- Cloud asynchronous task queue (POST /api/files/upload followed by POST /api/tasks pdfToWord conversion; Network-observed server wait 11.36s)
- Retention statement
- Uploaded and converted files are automatically deleted from servers after 2 hours, with an immediate manual delete option on the result page
A recorded statement does not verify deletion or all data-processing behavior.
Verifiable audit trail & evidence
Four SHA-256-verified stages link the benchmark fixture, same-run interface screenshots, native exported artifact and archived pricing sources.
anchor_pdf2word_v1 · Inspect fixture & file inspector →
Captures entry rules, result view and export disclosure.
Screenshots, native output and official claims support different conclusions. Evidence grades are not product safety certifications.
Evaluation basis & full scores · Overall 74.2/100
Overall = honesty & reputation × 30% + capability × 70%. Component maxima follow this report’s rubric. List scores are rounded for display; original precision is retained here.
Scoring version 2.3.1 · Test fixture anchor_pdf2word_v1
Honesty & reputation · 91/100 · 30%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 32 / 35 | Directly discloses the free allowance right below the upload button on the landing page ("Documents of up to 50 pages or 50 MB and 3 tasks per hour. Files stay private. Automatically deleted after 2 hours"); the official /upgrade page transparently lists the 7-day Web Week Pass ($5 one-time payment, no auto-renewal), Web Monthly ($7.50/mo), and Desktop+Web Annual ($63/yr). | Evidence A → |
| Interaction restraint | 27 / 30 | Converts our 2-page anchor PDF via the "Edit text" mode and downloads the full document without login, ad pop-ups, or email capture gates. | Evidence A → |
| Background & reputation | 18.5 / 20 | Operated since 2016 by Amsterdam-based Sejda BV, a well-established developer of web and desktop PDF tools affiliated with the open-source PDFsam team. | Evidence B → |
| Engineering & privacy | 13.5 / 15 | HTTPS-encrypted transfer; explicitly commits on both landing and download screens to automatically delete uploaded and converted files after 2 hours, alongside a manual immediate-delete option. | Evidence A → |
Capability · 67/100 · 70%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task quality | 43 / 65 | Exports a valid legacy OLE2 Word 97-2003 .doc file (215.0 KB): isolated LibreOffice import and macOS textutil inspection confirm 100.0% text retention (4/4 headings, 12/12 table text entries, 3/3 key body phrases, and Page 2 verification token preserved), but table cells are not reconstructed as a native editable Word table (table_count = 0, with 3 inline graphic objects) (43.0/65) | Evidence A → |
| Deliverable specifications | 14 / 20 | Delivers a complete 2-page watermark-free document (215.0 KB, free quota ≤50 pages/50 MB, 3 tasks/hr) without login, but outputs legacy binary OLE2 .doc rather than modern OpenXML .docx, incurring a format specification deduction (14.0/20) | Evidence A → |
| Processing speed | 10 / 15 | 2026-10-21 single-sample network timing: file upload takes 1.07s (POST /api/files/upload), and pure server conversion from POST /api/tasks (operation: pdfToWord) to polling completion (GET /api/tasks/[id]/change) takes 11.36s (10.0/15) | Evidence A → |
Legacy scores may include advertised maximum capabilities. Read tested output separately from paid capabilities. Records without matching tiers and scope are not ranked together.
Revisions & corrections
- 2026-10-18
Initial no-login conversion and honesty evaluation on Mode A document anchor (anchor_pdf2word_v1). - 2026-10-19
Unified 30/70 weighting and decimal rounding; backfilled evidence hashes; gated publication on review and artifact status. - 2026-10-19
Added current export evidence and isolated LibreOffice derivative inspection for the legacy OLE .doc export; pending human review. - 2026-10-21
Captured single-sample server processing time (server_s = 11.36s), verified official /upgrade pricing, and completed seven-aspect scoring; admitted via automated contract gate (auto_approved).