Every tool, running in your browser

Twenty tools for the things people do to PDFs. All of them work on your own machine: nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.

Read and understand

Tools that work out what is inside a document.

Combine and separate

Change which pages are in a document.

Arrange and mark up

Change how pages sit and what is stamped on them.

Convert

Move between formats.

No limits, because there is nothing to limit

Cloud tools meter usage because every task costs them server time. Nothing here runs on a server, so there is nothing to ration.

NoneTasks per dayFree tiers elsewhere commonly stop at 2 or 3 per day or hour.
50 MBFile sizeOne limit on every device, chosen so operations stay under a second everywhere.
NoneAccount requiredNo sign-up, no email, no upsell before a download.
YesReads scanned documentsText recognition runs on your device too. The engine downloads only when a scan is opened.
NoneAds or watermarksOutput is your document and nothing else.

There is a speed consequence too, and it runs the right way: a cloud tool has to upload your file, wait in a queue, process it, and send it back. Working on the file where it already sits skips all three. In testing, a 2,000-page document rotated in about a second and a 660 MB merge finished in five and a half.

The 50 MB ceiling is the one real limit here, and it comes from measurement rather than caution. Memory use runs at roughly four to five times the file size, and it is your memory. At 50 MB every operation finishes in under a second and peak memory stays near 140 MB, which a phone handles comfortably. At 80 MB it reaches 370 MB, and mobile browsers start reloading the tab with no warning and no saved work. One ceiling that holds on every device is better than a higher one that fails on the device you happen to be holding.

What is deliberately missing

Most PDF sites list a few tools they cannot do, and hand back a file that technically opens. These are absent because they cannot be done honestly in a browser, and shipping a version that half works would be worse than not having it.

If you need those four, the honest answer is that better options exist. Stirling PDF self-hosted via Docker covers over fifty operations including compression and passwords, and stays entirely under your control. PDF24 Creator is a free Windows desktop app that works offline. Your own PDF reader's "reduce file size" export usually beats any web compressor. We would rather point you at those than pretend.

Compress PDF
Real compression means resampling embedded images and rebuilding content streams. Anything less just rewrites the file at about the same size. Use your PDF reader's "reduce file size" export, or Ghostscript, until this can be done properly.
Protect & unlock
Adding or removing a password needs PDF encryption, which the library this site is built on does not implement. A tool that claimed to and did not would be actively dangerous.
PDF to Word or Excel
A PDF stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs or table cells. Reconstructing an editable document is a guess, and a bad guess produces a file that is more work to fix than to retype.