Eighteen PDF tools, one page, no juggling apps.

Merge, split, reorder, and rotate pages; compress a file that's too big to email; convert to and from images; add page numbers, a watermark, or a signature; redact, fill a form, add or remove a password; or turn a scan into searchable text.

One thing worth saying plainly, once: every one of these tools does its actual work (reading the PDF, redrawing pages, running the text reader) on your device, inside your browser. Nothing gets sent anywhere. Load the page, turn off your Wi-Fi, and everything below still works.

The one tradeoff worth knowing about

Most tools here (page numbers, watermark, sign, crop, merge, split) only ever add a thin layer on top of your PDF or copy pages between documents. The text underneath stays real text: selectable, searchable, unchanged. Three tools work differently, and it's worth knowing which ones before you rely on them.

  • Compress PDF re-renders every page as a JPEG and rebuilds the document from those images, at one of three settings: Light, Balanced, or Strong, each a step down in resolution and quality. That buys real file-size reduction, but text on the page stops being selectable afterward. It's built for scanned or photo-heavy files, not a text-heavy report, and if a file's already well-optimized, the tool says so instead of making it bigger.
  • Redact PDF does the same kind of rebuild on purpose: it renders each page to an image, paints solid black rectangles into the pixels where you drew boxes, then saves that as the new page. There's no text object hiding under the box to copy out: the redaction survives because the original page no longer exists in the output.
  • Scanned PDF to Searchable PDF rasterizes each page (capped at 2000px on its longest side) to read the text on-device, then lays that text invisibly behind the original scan image. The layer currently only captures Latin-script text; Cyrillic, Arabic, or CJK scans still display fine but won't be selectable yet.

If a PDF needs to stay text-searchable, run Compress or the image-based Redact last, not first.

What's actually here

Organize pages

One shared page grid backs Merge, Split, Rotate, and Delete Pages. Load one or several PDFs, drag any page into any order, rotate or remove individual pages, then export one merged PDF or a ZIP of split-out files.

Convert

PDF to JPG or PNG at a resolution you pick, and the reverse: JPG, PNG, or WebP images (WebP re-encoded to JPEG) combined into one PDF with page size, orientation, and margin controls. Compress PDF rounds out this group.

Edit & mark up

Watermark, Add Page Numbers (four formats, custom start number), Crop, Sign (draw or type a signature you place on the page), Redact, and Fill PDF Forms, which detects a document's existing fillable fields and writes your typed answers back in, with an option to flatten.

Secure & extract

Protect PDF adds a password plus printing/copying restrictions. Remove PDF Password decrypts a file you can already open. PDF to Text pulls out .txt or .md and flags pages that need OCR instead. Scanned PDF to Searchable PDF is the OCR tool above.

How it works

1

Pick a tool

Every tool is its own workspace with its own hash link (like #merge-pdf), so you can bookmark the one you use most.

2

Drop in your file

Merge and split accept several PDFs at once; most other tools take one. A damaged or password-protected file gets a plain error, with a link to Unlock if that's what you need.

3

Save the result

A single output downloads as a file; a tool that produces several files (Split, or PDF to JPG on a multi-page document) bundles them into one ZIP. No watermark on the output, no account, no cap on how many times you can run a tool.

Why not just use an upload-first PDF site?

Sites like iLovePDF or SmallPDF work fine, but their business model shapes the product: daily file caps, a watermark on the output, or redaction and OCR gated behind a paid plan, all while your document sat on their server the whole time. With no server in the loop, there's nothing to build those limits around.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are my PDFs uploaded to a server? +
No. Every operation (merging, compressing, OCR, everything) happens inside your browser on your own device. Your files never leave your computer, and you can disconnect from the internet and keep working.
Is there a file size or page limit? +
No arbitrary caps. Because the work runs on your device rather than a shared server, you can process large PDFs and long documents without hitting the limits most free online tools impose.
Can it make a scanned PDF searchable? +
Yes. The OCR tool reads the text in scanned pages right on your device and produces a new PDF with a real, selectable, searchable text layer underneath the original image. Right now that text layer only captures Latin-script languages.
When I redact a PDF, is the hidden text really gone? +
Yes. Unlike tools that just draw a black box over text you can still copy out, this permanently removes the content in the redacted areas so it can't be recovered.
Does it cost anything or need an account? +
It's free and needs no account or install. Open the page and use any tool.