PDF Tools

What these PDF tools are

This is a small, focused set of free PDF tools that run entirely inside your web browser. Each one does a single, common job — turning images into a PDF, combining several PDFs into one, or turning a PDF's pages into images — and gives you the finished file back in seconds. The thing that sets them apart is simple but important: your files are never uploaded to any server. Every PDF and image is read, processed, and saved right on your own device, so even sensitive documents stay private.

Most of the well-known "online PDF" services work the opposite way. SmallPDF, iLovePDF, and Adobe's online tools all upload your file to their servers to process it, then nudge you toward a paid subscription with free-tier limits — a cap on how many files you can do per hour, a maximum file size, or a watermark. These PDF tools take a different path: they are free, unlimited, require no signup, add no watermark, and never send your file anywhere.

The privacy argument (why in-browser matters)

A large share of PDF work involves documents people would rather not hand to a stranger's server: signed contracts, tax returns, bank statements, scans of passports or IDs, medical forms, legal filings. "Upload your file to continue" is exactly the wrong prompt for that kind of document.

Because these tools do all the work in your browser using open-source libraries (pdf-lib for writing PDFs, pdf.js for rendering them), there is no upload step at all. You can prove this to yourself: open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use any tool here — you will see the libraries load once, and then no outbound transfer of your file. The privacy is structural, not a promise on a marketing page. A server-based tool literally cannot make this claim, because it has to receive your file to do its job.

A second benefit falls out of the same design: once you have visited a tool, it is cached on your device, so it works offline. You can assemble or convert a PDF on a laptop with no internet connection, which is genuinely useful for sensitive paperwork on locked-down or air-gapped machines.

What's in this set

• JPG to PDF — turn one or many images (JPG, PNG, and more) into a single PDF. Reorder the images, choose page size and orientation, and download the PDF. Great for turning phone photos of a signed form or a stack of receipts into one document.
• Merge PDF — combine several PDF files into one, in the order you choose. Ideal for joining a CV and cover letter, stitching lecture handouts together, or assembling separate signed pages into a single contract.
• PDF to JPG — render every page of a PDF as a JPG or PNG image, with a choice of resolution. Useful for dropping a page into a slide deck, sharing a single page, or giving an image to someone who cannot open a PDF.

More page-editing tools — splitting a PDF, rotating pages, deleting pages, and reordering pages — are planned for this same set, all built the same private, in-browser way.

What these tools deliberately do not do

We only include operations we can do honestly and well in the browser. We do not offer PDF-to-Word, PDF-to-Excel, or OCR (turning a scanned PDF into editable text). Those require server-side layout reconstruction and document AI; an honest in-browser version would produce garbled output, so we leave them out rather than ship something that disappoints. Saying what a tool cannot do is part of being trustworthy.

Common use cases

• A job applicant merging a CV and a cover letter into one PDF to attach to an application.
• A student combining several lecture handout PDFs into a single study file.
• Someone photographing a signed form with their phone and turning the photos into one clean PDF to email back.
• A worker pulling a single page out of a long contract as an image to paste into a chat or slide.
• Anyone who needs a quick PDF job done but does not want to upload a private document or create yet another account.

Why use this set instead of the big PDF sites

• Privacy: your files never leave your browser — verifiable in the Network tab — where the major sites upload everything.
• No paywall: free and unlimited, with no per-hour file cap, no file-size gate, and no "you've used your free tasks" wall.
• No friction: no signup, no email, no watermark on your output.
• Offline: works without a connection after the first visit.
• Honest scope: only operations we can genuinely do in the browser, done well.

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