PDF jobs, handled on your own computer

Every tool on this site runs entirely in your browser. Your PDFs are never uploaded to a server: contracts, statements, and scans stay on your device from start to finish, and there is no account, no watermark, and no task counter.

The mechanism is plain enough to describe in a sentence. The page loads two PDF engines from this site as ordinary JavaScript files, those engines read the file you picked, do the work in the tab, and hand back a finished document that your browser saves as a normal download. There is no upload step because there is nowhere to upload to: the tools contain no code that sends a file anywhere. Two useful side effects follow. Speed depends on your own device rather than on somebody's queue, and a job that has already started keeps running even if your connection drops.

Two honest details belong here as well. These pages carry ads served by Google, so Google sees an ordinary page request the way it does on any site that runs ads; it never sees the contents of a file you open in a tool. And when you drop files on the box above and then pick a tool, those files are parked for a moment in your browser's own storage so the tool page can pick them up. That copy stays on your device, is read once and deleted, and is ignored entirely if it is more than a minute old. The privacy page spells all of this out.

What each tool does

Merge PDF

Merge combines whole PDF files into one document. Add two or more files, put them in order by dragging the rows or using the up and down arrows, and every page of every file is copied into a single new PDF in that order. Each row shows the file size and page count, so you can confirm you grabbed the right draft before you commit. Merge works on complete files rather than page ranges: if you only want part of a document, split it first, or merge everything and trim afterwards.

Split PDF

Split opens one file and shows a thumbnail of every page. Click the pages you want, or type a range such as 1-3, 7 into the box; the thumbnails and the range box stay in sync whichever one you use. Then pick the shape of the result: the selected pages saved as one new PDF, or each selected page saved as its own PDF, delivered together in a ZIP file. Pages are copied across as they are, so text stays text and images are not touched.

Compress PDF

Compress is built for scans and image-heavy files. It draws every page at a capped width, saves that drawing as a JPEG, and builds a new PDF in which each page is that image, held at the original page dimensions so it still prints at the right size. Three quality levels trade sharpness against file size. Because every page becomes a picture, text in the result is no longer selectable or searchable, and the tool shows you the new size before you download so you can judge the trade.

PDF to JPG

PDF to JPG turns every page into a JPG image at one of three quality levels, the highest capping pages at roughly 2000 pixels wide. A one-page PDF downloads as a single image; anything longer arrives as a ZIP with one numbered image per page. There is no page picker in this tool and JPG is the only output format, so if you need a single page, extract it with Split PDF first and convert that.

Rotate PDF

Rotate fixes sideways and upside-down pages. Every page appears as a thumbnail, each click turns that page another quarter turn, and two buttons spin the whole document left or right at once. When you apply the change, only each page's stored orientation value is rewritten. Nothing is redrawn and nothing is re-encoded, so the result is exactly as sharp as the original and the file size barely moves.

Images to PDF

Images to PDF builds a document from pictures, one page per image, with each page sized to its image. Order them by dragging the rows or using the arrows. JPG and PNG files go in exactly as they are, with no re-encoding, so photos keep the quality they arrived with; other formats your browser can open, such as WebP, GIF, BMP, and AVIF, are converted to JPEG on the way in. Any image the browser cannot read is skipped, and the tool tells you how many were left out.

Which tool do you need?

What you want	Tool
Send several documents as one attachment	Merge PDF
Send only pages 4-9 of a long report	Split PDF
Get a scan under an email attachment limit	Compress PDF
Drop a page into a slide, a post, or a chat	PDF to JPG
Straighten pages that came out of the scanner sideways	Rotate PDF
Turn phone photos of receipts into one file	Images to PDF

The jobs chain together, too. A stack of scanned receipts becomes one expense report by running Images to PDF and then Compress PDF; a signed contract that came back as three separate files becomes one attachment through Merge PDF, and Compress PDF afterwards if the scan is heavy.

What these tools do not do

Worth saying plainly, because it saves you a wasted upload elsewhere. There is no text editing, no OCR, so a scan does not become searchable text here. There is no password removal, no signature field, and no page-level editing beyond keeping the pages you want with Split PDF. A file that asks for a password before it will open cannot be read by any of these tools; open it in a viewer with the password, save an unprotected copy, and run that copy through instead.

There is also no file size or page limit written into the tools, which is honest rather than generous: the real ceiling is your device's memory, since the whole file is held in the tab while it is worked on. A large scan may simply take a while on a laptop, and can run out of room on an older phone. If a big job stalls, split the document and work through it in pieces.

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