Turn CBR comic books into PDF. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop CBR files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop CBR files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the PDF, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The CBR to PDF converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your comic books are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
CBR depends on RAR, which many tools can read but few can write. PDF looks the same on every device and keeps several pages in one file. CBR is at home in digital comics and manga; PDF is the usual choice for documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can choose the page size.
A password-protected archive is refused, since its contents cannot be read without the password. Pages are put in reading order with numbers sorted as numbers (page 2 before page 10), one image per PDF page, up to 3,000 pages. Files in the archive that are not page images are ignored.
A CBR is a RAR archive of page images. It is the same idea as a CBZ, but RAR is a proprietary format that only WinRAR may create, so CBZ has become the more portable choice. Many comic downloads are still CBR.
Opens in Comic readers such as YACReader, CDisplay and Calibre
CBR converterPDF fixes a document's layout so it looks identical on every screen and printer. That makes it the default for forms, invoices and anything sent to print, and also what makes it awkward to edit.
Opens in Every browser, phone and computer
PDF converter| CBRComic book (RAR) | PDFPDF document | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Comic Book RAR | Portable Document Format |
| Type | Comic book (RAR of page images) | Fixed-layout document |
| Compression | RAR container; the pages keep their own image compression | Mixed: text is stored as text, images keep their own compression |
| Introduced | The early 2000s, by comic-reader software such as CDisplay (no formal standard) | 1993, by Adobe (an ISO standard since 2008) |
| Opens in | Comic readers such as YACReader, CDisplay and Calibre | Every browser, phone and computer |
| Best for | Digital comics and manga | Documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing |
| File extension | .cbr | .pdf, .ai |
No. The CBR to PDF conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Text is kept. Formatting carries over only as far as PDF supports it.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the CBR file, press Convert and save the PDF. There is nothing to install.
Yes. An archive can be up to 500 MB, unpack to at most 1 GB and hold up to 50,000 files; beyond those limits the page says so. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.