PDF Tools
Merge, split, compress, rotate and sign PDFs without uploading them anywhere.
10 free tools · nothing is uploaded
About PDF Tools
PDFs are where privacy matters most, because the PDFs people need to manipulate are rarely trivial. They are signed contracts, scanned passports, bank statements, medical letters, tax returns. The standard advice is to drag them into whichever free site appears first in search — which means handing a stranger a copy of the document and trusting a privacy policy nobody reads.
These tools do the work locally instead. The file is parsed in your browser with PDF.js and rewritten with pdf-lib, both running as JavaScript on your own machine. You can confirm this yourself: open your browser devtools, switch to the network tab, and watch that no request carries your file while you work.
The practical upside is speed. A 40 MB scanned document that would take a minute to upload and come back is processed here in seconds, because it never makes the round trip.
Which tool do you need?
- Combining documents
- Merge PDF joins several files in the order you choose — the usual case is stapling a cover letter to a CV, or assembling scanned pages that came out as separate files.
- Taking pages out
- Split PDF breaks a file into pages or ranges. Extract PDF Pages saves a selection as a new document. Remove PDF Pages deletes pages and keeps the rest. Which one you want depends on whether you care about the pages you are removing.
- Getting under a size limit
- Compress PDF re-renders the pages at lower quality. It works best on scans and image-heavy files; for a text-only PDF the savings are smaller because there is less to squeeze.
- Fixing orientation
- Rotate PDF turns pages that came out of a scanner sideways, either all of them or specific ones.
- Signing
- Sign PDF lets you draw a signature or upload a photo of one, place it, and download the signed file. It is a visual signature, not a certificate-based digital one — the tool page explains the difference and when the distinction matters legally.
- Converting
- PDF to Image extracts pages as PNG or JPG. Image to PDF goes the other way, turning photos or scans into a single document.
A note worth making: no browser-based tool can open a password-protected PDF without the password, and none of these will strip protection from a document you cannot already open. If a file is encrypted, you need the password first.
Frequently asked
Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?
No. PDFs are read into browser memory and rewritten locally with pdf-lib and PDF.js, both served from this site. Nothing carrying the document leaves your device — which matters, because contracts, invoices and IDs are exactly the sort of file you should not hand to an unknown web service.
Why did compressing my PDF barely shrink it?
Compression re-renders each page as an image, so it works well on scans and photo-heavy documents and poorly on text. A PDF that is already mostly text is close to as small as it gets, and rasterising it can even make it larger while making the text less sharp when zoomed.
Can these tools open password-protected PDFs?
No. An encrypted PDF cannot be read without its password, and none of these tools ask for one. Remove the protection in the application that created the file first.
Can I edit the text inside a PDF here?
No. These tools work on pages — merging, splitting, rotating, extracting, removing and signing. Rewriting the text inside a page is a different job and needs a full PDF editor.
Is there a page or file size limit?
No fixed limit. Everything runs in browser memory, so a very large document simply takes longer and needs more RAM. Splitting a huge file before other operations usually helps.