📕 PDF Tools
Merge, split, rotate and convert PDFs — all in your browser — 9 free tools available. No signup required.
Merge, split, rotate, compress, convert and annotate PDFs — every one of them processed entirely in your browser.
That is the whole point of this section. The dominant free PDF services upload your file to a server, process it there and let you download the result, which means a contract, a payslip, a medical letter or a scanned passport has been transmitted to a third party and sits on their infrastructure for some retention period. These tools never upload anything, because there is nowhere to upload it to.
The trade-off is that processing happens on your device, so a very large document depends on your machine's memory rather than a server's. For ordinary documents this is not a limitation.
Where to start
- Merge PDF — Combines several PDFs in a chosen order without uploading any of them.
- Split PDF — Extracts a page range into a new document, locally.
- Compress PDF — Reduces file size on-device, with the before and after shown.
- JPG to PDF Converter — Builds a PDF from photos or scans with page size and orientation control.
- PDF to Text — Extracts the embedded text layer, useful for searching or quoting.
- Watermark PDF — Applies a text watermark across pages without a round trip to a server.
All pdf tools (9)
Merge PDF
Combine PDFs into one file without uploading them anywhere. Set the order, see page counts, flatten form fields.
Split PDF
Extract a page range, delete pages, or split a PDF into separate files. Multiple files come back as one ZIP.
JPG to PDF Converter
Turn JPG, PNG and WebP images into a single PDF. Page size matched to each image or set to A4 or Letter, auto…
PDF to JPG Converter
Turn PDF pages into JPG, PNG or WebP at a resolution you choose, with the output pixel size shown before you…
Rotate PDF
Turn PDF pages 90, 180 or 270 degrees and save the rotation into the file.
Compress PDF
Shrink a PDF to an exact target size, and be told first whether it is a scan (safe) or real text (you lose the…
Watermark PDF
Stamp text across every page or a selection: diagonal or straight, any size, opacity and color.
Add Page Numbers to PDF
Number a PDF with the position and format you want, skipping a cover and starting from any number.
PDF to Text
Pull the real text out of a PDF with paragraphs rebuilt from the document’s own line spacing.
Why local processing matters more for PDFs than anything else
The file types people bring to a PDF tool are disproportionately sensitive: contracts, invoices, bank statements, identity documents, medical records, legal correspondence. Uploading one to a free web service means accepting that service's retention policy, its security posture, and its jurisdiction, usually without reading any of them. Processing in the browser removes the question rather than answering it — the file is opened by your own browser, modified in memory, and saved back to your disk, and no network request carries its contents anywhere.
What compression can and cannot do
Most of the size in a large PDF is images, so compression works by re-encoding them at lower quality or resolution. A PDF that is mostly text has little to remove and will barely shrink, however aggressive the setting. A PDF full of high-resolution scans can often be reduced dramatically with no visible difference at screen size. Compression is lossy for the images it touches, so keep the original if the document may need to be printed at full quality later — you cannot recover detail from a compressed copy.
A text layer is either there or it is not
Text extraction reads the text layer embedded in the PDF. A document produced from a word processor has one and extraction is exact. A document produced by photographing or scanning paper is a picture of text with no text layer at all, and extraction returns nothing — which is not a tool failure but the absence of anything to extract. Converting that requires optical character recognition, a fundamentally different operation that guesses at characters from pixels and introduces errors.
Page order, rotation and what actually gets saved
Rotation in a PDF is a page attribute rather than a change to the content, so rotating and saving records the orientation in the file and every compliant reader will honor it. This is different from viewers that rotate the display only, where reopening shows the original orientation. Similarly, merging preserves each source document's page content exactly rather than re-rendering it, so text stays selectable and quality is unchanged.
Frequently asked questions
Are my PDFs uploaded anywhere?
No. Every tool in this section runs in your browser. The file is read from your disk, processed in memory, and saved back. No network request carries its contents.
Is there a file size limit?
We impose none. The limit is your device's memory, so very large scanned documents may be slow on an older machine.
Can I work with password-protected PDFs?
Encrypted PDFs need the password supplied before they can be read, and support varies by how the file was protected. Removing protection from a document you are not authorized to open is not something these tools are for.
Why did text extraction return nothing?
Because the PDF has no text layer — it is almost certainly a scan or photograph of a page. That needs OCR, which is a different operation from extraction.
Will merging reduce quality?
No. Merging copies page content as-is rather than re-rendering it, so text stays selectable and images are unchanged.