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PDF & Word Link Checker

Find every link inside a PDF, Word, PowerPoint or Excel file and test each one live. Dead links come with an archived copy you can swap in.

Most broken link checkers only crawl web pages. This one opens the file itself, so links buried in a two-year-old whitepaper or a sales deck get checked too.

PDF
Plus Word, PPT, Excel
200
Links per check, signed in
Live
Every link requested
Archive
Copies for dead links
Document link checkerFile stays local
Private: the document is read in your browser. Only the web addresses in it are sent to be checked.
Drop a PDF, Word, PowerPoint or Excel filePDF, .docx, .pptx or .xlsx, up to 50 MB

How it works

1

Drop in the file

A PDF, Word document, PowerPoint deck or Excel workbook. It is opened in your browser, not uploaded.

2

Every link is pulled out

Body text, headers, footers, footnotes, slides, speaker notes and cells, with the words each link sits on and where it appears.

3

Each address is checked live

Only the addresses go to our server, which requests each one and reports broken pages, redirects and blocked checks. Dead links come with an archived copy where one exists.

Questions

PDFs outlive the pages they link to. A whitepaper or ebook from two years ago is often full of dead links, which frustrates readers, and Google follows links in PDFs just as it does on web pages.

No. The file is read in your browser. Only the list of web addresses found in it is sent to our server so each one can be requested.

The site answered with 403 or 429, which usually means it turns away automated requests. The link often works fine in a browser, so open it before you replace it.

For links that are gone, we ask the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for its closest saved copy. Linking to that keeps the reference intact when the original page has disappeared.

PDF, and Word, PowerPoint and Excel in their current formats (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx). Save older .doc, .ppt or .xls files in the new format first.

Up to 50 links per check for visitors and 200 when signed in, with 10 checks every five minutes. Repeated links are checked once.

The PDF SEO checker shows how Google reads a PDF: its title, indexable text and metadata. To remove names, comments and tracked changes before you publish a file, use the document hidden data remover.

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