diff --git a/ingestors/settings.py b/ingestors/settings.py
index e396b2eb9..4768e91e9 100644
--- a/ingestors/settings.py
+++ b/ingestors/settings.py
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 
 TESTING = False
 
-CONVERT_TIMEOUT = env.to_int("INGESTORS_CONVERT_TIMEOUT", 7200)  # 2 hrs
-CONVERT_RETRIES = env.to_int("INGESTORS_CONVERT_RETRIES", 256)
+CONVERT_TIMEOUT = env.to_int("INGESTORS_CONVERT_TIMEOUT", 300)  # seconds
 
 # Enable (expensive!) Google Cloud API
 OCR_VISION_API = env.to_bool("INGESTORS_OCR_VISION_API", False)
diff --git a/ingestors/support/convert.py b/ingestors/support/convert.py
index 786978310..2e418b741 100644
--- a/ingestors/support/convert.py
+++ b/ingestors/support/convert.py
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@
 from ingestors.support.cache import CacheSupport
 from ingestors.support.temp import TempFileSupport
 from ingestors.exc import ProcessingException
+from ingestors import settings
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-TIMEOUT = 3600  # seconds
-CONVERT_RETRIES = 5
 
 PDF_CACHE_ACCESSED = Counter(
     "ingestfile_pdf_cache_accessed",
@@ -45,7 +44,9 @@ def document_to_pdf(self, unique_tmpdir, file_path, entity):
             self.tags.set(key, content_hash)
         return pdf_file
 
-    def _document_to_pdf(self, unique_tmpdir, file_path, entity, timeout=TIMEOUT):
+    def _document_to_pdf(
+        self, unique_tmpdir, file_path, entity, timeout=settings.CONVERT_TIMEOUT
+    ):
         """Converts an office document to PDF."""
         file_name = entity_filename(entity)
         log.info("Converting [%s] to PDF", entity)
@@ -72,30 +73,20 @@ def _document_to_pdf(self, unique_tmpdir, file_path, entity, timeout=TIMEOUT):
             file_path,
         ]
         try:
-            for attempt in range(1, CONVERT_RETRIES):
-                log.info(
-                    f"Starting LibreOffice: %s with timeout %s attempt #{attempt}/{CONVERT_RETRIES}",
-                    cmd,
-                    timeout,
-                )
-                try:
-                    subprocess.run(cmd, timeout=timeout, check=True)
-                except Exception as e:
-                    log.info(
-                        f"Could not be converted to PDF (attempt {attempt}/{CONVERT_RETRIES}): {e}"
-                    )
-                    continue
+            log.info(f"Starting LibreOffice: {cmd} with timeout {timeout}")
+            try:
+                subprocess.run(cmd, timeout=timeout, check=True)
+            except Exception as e:
+                raise ProcessingException("Could not be converted to PDF") from e
 
-                for file_name in os.listdir(pdf_output_dir):
-                    if not file_name.endswith(".pdf"):
-                        continue
-                    out_file = os.path.join(pdf_output_dir, file_name)
-                    if os.stat(out_file).st_size == 0:
-                        continue
-                    log.info(f"Successfully converted {out_file}")
-                    return out_file
-            raise ProcessingException(
-                f"Could not be converted to PDF (attempt #{attempt}/{CONVERT_RETRIES})"
-            )
+            for file_name in os.listdir(pdf_output_dir):
+                if not file_name.endswith(".pdf"):
+                    continue
+                out_file = os.path.join(pdf_output_dir, file_name)
+                if os.stat(out_file).st_size == 0:
+                    continue
+                log.info(f"Successfully converted {out_file}")
+                return out_file
+            raise ProcessingException("Could not be converted to PDF")
         except Exception as e:
             raise ProcessingException("Could not be converted to PDF") from e