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PDF and document tools

PDFs are the format people use for exactly the documents they should be most careful with: contracts, bank statements, medical records, identity papers. Mainstream PDF services upload every one of those to a server, process them there, and rely on a retention policy to delete them afterwards.

These tools use pdf-lib and pdf.js inside your browser instead. The document is parsed, modified, and written back to your downloads folder without a single byte being transmitted — which means there is no retention policy to rely on in the first place.

PDF & Documents tools

Frequently Asked Questions

Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?

No. Every PDF tool here uses pdf-lib or pdf.js inside your browser. The document is parsed and rewritten locally and the result is written straight to your downloads folder, so there is no retention policy to rely on.

Can I edit a scanned PDF?

Only in limited ways. A scan is a photograph of a page with no text layer, so text cannot be extracted or edited without optical character recognition, which is a separate process.

Why is my PDF so large?

Almost always because it contains high-resolution images — a scan at 600 DPI is many times larger than one at 200 DPI, with no visible benefit on screen. Compressing typically removes 60–80% for scanned documents.

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