PDF Tools
20 free toolsMerge, split, compress, rotate, sign, redact, and convert PDFs.
PDF tools do the jobs that usually send people to an upload site: merge and split, compress, rotate and reorder pages, add page numbers or a watermark, sign, redact, unlock, and convert to or from images, text, and Markdown. Everything is done with pdf-lib and PDF.js in the page, which matters for contracts and statements you would rather not upload anywhere.
Everything here runs in your browser: files and text are processed locally and never uploaded.
All 20 tools
Merge PDFs
Combine multiple PDF files into one
Split PDF
Split a PDF into multiple files
Rotate PDF Pages
Rotate pages in a PDF
Sign PDF
Add a signature to a PDF
Text to PDF
Paste or upload plain text and download a cleanly formatted PDF
Unlock PDF
Remove the password from a PDF you own, entirely in your browser
Reorder PDF Pages
Rearrange pages in a PDF by dragging and dropping
Remove PDF Pages
Delete specific pages from a PDF
Extract PDF Pages
Extract specific pages from a PDF into a new file
Images to PDF
Convert images to a multi-page PDF document
PDF to Images
Convert PDF pages to PNG or JPEG images
PDF to Text
Extract text from any PDF in your browser. Scanned PDFs are OCR'd automatically, page by page. Nothing is uploaded.
Add Page Numbers to PDF
Add page numbers to every page of a PDF
PDF Metadata Editor
View and edit PDF metadata like title, author, and keywords
PDF Pipeline
Chain multiple PDF operations: remove, rotate, add page numbers
PDF Compressor
Reduce PDF file size in your browser — lossless or strong compression
PDF Watermark
Add a text or image watermark to PDF pages
Redact PDF
Black out sensitive PDF content so it is truly removed, not just covered
Fill PDF Form
Fill out fillable PDF forms in your browser, with optional flattening
HTML → PDF
Convert HTML markup to a paginated PDF, rendered in your browser
Guides
From the blog: the mechanisms, standards, and edge cases behind these tools.
- A Free iLovePDF Alternative — No Upload, No Watermark, No Account Looking for a free iLovePDF or Smallpdf alternative that does not upload your files, add watermarks, or gate everything behind an account? Here is an honest comparison and a browser-based set of PDF tools for developers. Jul 17, 2026 · uses Merge PDFs, Split PDF, Rotate PDF Pages +16
- Why Your PDF Copies as Gibberish (and How to Tell a Text PDF from a Scanned One) Copying text from a PDF gives boxes, wrong letters or nothing at all? Here is what is actually inside the file, how to check, and how to get clean text out of a scan. Oct 16, 2026 · uses Unlock PDF, PDF to Images, PDF to Text +1
- CSS Page Breaks: Why break-inside: avoid Is Not Working in Your PDF Why HTML-to-PDF output splits tables, images and headings mid-page, and how to control it: page-break-* vs break-*, why avoid silently fails, orphans, widows, @page and thead, with browser support checked against MDN data. Sep 23, 2026 · uses Merge PDFs, Add Page Numbers to PDF, PDF Compressor +1
- Black Boxes Don't Redact PDFs — the Text Is Still Right There Drawing a black rectangle over PDF text hides it visually but leaves the original characters completely intact. Why that happens, real cases where it leaked, and how to actually remove text from a PDF. Jul 27, 2026 · uses Unlock PDF, PDF to Images, PDF Metadata Editor +1
- PDF Passwords Explained: Why You Can Open a File You Can't Edit The difference between a PDF user password and owner password — why one blocks opening and the other is an honor-system restriction any viewer can ignore, and what that means for unlocking a file you own. Jul 26, 2026 · uses Sign PDF, Unlock PDF, PDF Metadata Editor +1
- Drawing Your Name on a PDF Is Not a Digital Signature Our Sign PDF tool embeds a PNG and draws it on the page. That is what almost every free "PDF signature" tool does, and under US and EU law it is usually still a valid electronic signature — but it proves nothing about whether the document changed afterward. Here is the mechanism a real PDF signature uses, and the exact legal line between the two. Aug 31, 2026 · uses Sign PDF, PDF Metadata Editor, Redact PDF
- What ATS Software Actually Reads From Your Resume The 75% rejection stat has no source. Here is what applicant tracking systems really do with your file, verified against Greenhouse, Lever, Taleo, and parsing-vendor docs — and what genuinely breaks parsing. Jul 27, 2026 · uses Text to PDF, PDF to Text
- Why Your OCR Results Are Garbage: 1nvo1ce vs Invoice Why OCR turns "Invoice" into "1nvo1ce" — how modern OCR actually recognizes text, the image quality factors that dominate accuracy (resolution, skew, contrast, compression), and a pre-flight checklist to fix it before you scan. Jul 27, 2026 · uses PDF to Images, PDF to Text
- The Graph Paper Field Guide: Square, Dot, Isometric, Hex, and Beyond Not all grids are the same. A practical field guide to the seven kinds of graph paper — square, dot, isometric, hexagonal, engineering, semi-log, and polar — what each one is actually for, the right grid size to pick, and how to print your own for free. Jul 7, 2026 · uses Merge PDFs, PDF Compressor
- Why Your Printable Paper Prints the Wrong Size (and How to Fix It) You printed 5mm graph paper and the squares came out at 4.6mm. The culprit is almost always print scaling. Here is why "Fit to Page" quietly shrinks your grid, how to print true-to-scale at 100%, and how margins and file format affect a print-perfect result. Jul 7, 2026 · uses Merge PDFs, PDF Compressor
- Free Image Compressors That Never Upload Your Files (and How to Tell) TinyPNG, iLoveIMG and Compressor.io upload your images. Squoosh, ImageOptim and our tools don't. Free limits checked October 2026, plus a 2-minute test. Oct 16, 2026 · uses PDF Compressor
- Why Regex PII Redaction Always Leaks (And When to Use It Anyway) Pattern matching finds emails and card numbers reliably. It cannot find names, addresses, or free-form identifiers at all — and the checksums that reduce false positives introduce their own. An honest account of the limits. Jul 29, 2026 · uses Redact PDF