Chinese Document Converter

What does the Chinese Document Converter do?

ChineseDocConverter is a free online tool for converting Chinese office files between Simplified and Traditional characters. You upload a Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint or text file, choose a conversion type, and download a new file. The converter is built to change the Chinese inside the document rather than asking you to copy everything into a text box and paste it back.

That difference matters for real documents. A Word file carries heading styles, lists and tables. An Excel workbook mixes labels with formulas. A PowerPoint deck keeps text in shapes that already have a layout. Converting the file in place is the point of this homepage. Converted files are available for 30 seconds, then they are deleted. Nothing is kept as a long-term copy on this server. See document privacy for the details.

This is character conversion, not translation. It will not rewrite a Mainland product name into a Taiwan marketing line, and it will not turn Chinese into English. If you need that distinction explained, read conversion vs translation.

Simplified vs. Traditional Chinese

Simplified Chinese is the official written standard in mainland China and is also used in Singapore. Traditional Chinese remains the usual written form in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and in a large share of overseas Chinese publishing. The two systems are related ways of writing Chinese, not two unrelated languages. A reader of one can often guess a good deal of the other, but schools, governments and user interfaces still pick one.

Many Simplified characters reduce stroke count, as in 国 versus 國. Some Simplified forms also merge several Traditional characters, which is why automatic conversion is not always reversible without context. For the background and examples, see Simplified vs Traditional Chinese. If you are converting in a specific direction, use Simplified to Traditional or Traditional to Simplified.

Which conversion should I choose?

The dropdown uses OpenCC conversion types. These four cover most document jobs:

• Simplified → Traditional — a generic Traditional result when you do not need a regional standard.
• Traditional → Simplified — the usual choice for files that will be read in mainland China or Singapore.
• Simplified → Traditional (Taiwan) — Taiwan’s character standard. Use this for documents aimed at readers in Taiwan.
• Simplified → Traditional (Hong Kong) — Hong Kong’s character standard. Taiwan and Hong Kong Traditional are not identical; see Taiwan vs Hong Kong Traditional Chinese.

Phrase options add some regional wording on top of character changes. They are still not a translator. After any automatic pass, skim names, headings and legal lines. Proofreading conversions and one-to-many character mappings explain the usual surprises.

Supported document formats

Upload Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF or TXT. Older binary .doc files should be saved as .docx first. PDFs only convert when the Chinese exists as text; a scan of a page needs OCR before character conversion can help.

For format-specific advice, use the document guides: Word, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint. If characters already look wrong before you upload, conversion will not invent the missing text — start with garbled Chinese text and fonts and Unicode.

Need only a paragraph, not a file? Use the text converter. To add reading aids rather than change the character set, use Chinese to Pinyin or the Pinyin Writer.