diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4fe76ee5f5..eab1220339 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -43,11 +43,8 @@
     "@types/archiver": "^2.1.0",
     "@types/express": "^4.0.35",
     "@types/image-size": "0.0.29",
-    "@types/request-promise": "^4.1.41",
     "archiver": "^2.1.1",
     "image-size": "^0.6.2",
-    "request": "^2.83.0",
-    "request-promise": "^4.2.2",
     "xml": "^1.0.1"
   },
   "author": "Igor Bulovski",
diff --git a/src/export/packer/local.spec.ts b/src/export/packer/local.spec.ts
index 16fb99705b..e678c2939f 100644
--- a/src/export/packer/local.spec.ts
+++ b/src/export/packer/local.spec.ts
@@ -30,13 +30,4 @@ describe("LocalPacker", () => {
             fs.statSync("build/tests/test.docx");
         });
     });
-
-    describe("#packPdf", () => {
-        it("should create a standard PDF file", async function() {
-            this.timeout(99999999);
-
-            await packer.packPdf("build/tests/pdf-test");
-            fs.statSync("build/tests/pdf-test.pdf");
-        });
-    });
 });
diff --git a/src/export/packer/local.ts b/src/export/packer/local.ts
index 5d0c05fe81..b8c88b1b65 100644
--- a/src/export/packer/local.ts
+++ b/src/export/packer/local.ts
@@ -1,19 +1,14 @@
 import * as fs from "fs";
-import * as os from "os";
-import * as path from "path";
 
 import { File } from "../../file";
 import { Compiler } from "./compiler";
 import { IPacker } from "./packer";
-import { PdfConvertWrapper } from "./pdf-convert-wrapper";
 
 export class LocalPacker implements IPacker {
     private stream: fs.WriteStream;
-    private readonly pdfConverter: PdfConvertWrapper;
     private readonly packer: Compiler;
 
     constructor(file: File) {
-        this.pdfConverter = new PdfConvertWrapper();
         this.packer = new Compiler(file);
     }
 
@@ -23,25 +18,4 @@ export class LocalPacker implements IPacker {
         this.stream = fs.createWriteStream(`${filePath}.docx`);
         await this.packer.compile(this.stream);
     }
-
-    public async packPdf(filePath: string): Promise<void> {
-        filePath = filePath.replace(/.pdf$/, "");
-
-        const fileName = path.basename(filePath, path.extname(filePath));
-        const tempPath = path.join(os.tmpdir(), `${fileName}.docx`);
-        this.stream = fs.createWriteStream(tempPath);
-        await this.packer.compile(this.stream);
-        const text = await this.pdfConverter.convert(tempPath);
-        // const writeFile = util.promisify(fs.writeFile); --use this in future, in 3 years time. Only in node 8
-        // return writeFile(`${filePath}.pdf`, text);
-        return new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
-            fs.writeFile(`${filePath}.pdf`, text, (err) => {
-                if (err) {
-                    reject(err);
-                    return;
-                }
-                resolve();
-            });
-        });
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/export/packer/pdf-convert-wrapper.ts b/src/export/packer/pdf-convert-wrapper.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5067082d12..0000000000
--- a/src/export/packer/pdf-convert-wrapper.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-/* tslint:disable:object-literal-key-quotes */
-// This tslint disable is needed, or it simply won't work
-import * as fs from "fs";
-import * as request from "request-promise";
-
-export interface IConvertOutput {
-    data: string;
-}
-
-export class PdfConvertWrapper {
-    public convert(filePath: string): request.RequestPromise {
-        return request.post({
-            url: "http://mirror1.convertonlinefree.com",
-            encoding: null,
-            headers: {
-                "User-Agent":
-                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.94 Safari/537.36",
-            },
-            formData: {
-                __EVENTTARGET: "",
-                __EVENTARGUMENT: "",
-                __VIEWSTATE: "",
-                ctl00$MainContent$fu: {
-                    value: fs.readFileSync(filePath),
-                    options: {
-                        filename: "output.docx",
-                        contentType: "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
-                    },
-                },
-                ctl00$MainContent$btnConvert: "Convert",
-                ctl00$MainContent$fuZip: "",
-            },
-        });
-    }
-}