Free, no sign-up: your PDFs stay yours.
Drop a file and pick an operation. Everything happens here in your browser: the only thing that can leave this computer are scanned pages, if you agree to have their text recognised, and we ask you first.
Entirely in the browser*
No account needed
Free
* Applies to PDFs without scanned pages: text recognition (OCR) is the only exception.
Drop a file or click to choose one
pdf · images · word · openoffice · excel · html · text
or pick what to do right away
A new PDF
CVs, letters, invitations, greeting cards and sheets to fill in
Documents
For printing
Print templates set the size and add bleed: the sheet comes out larger than the finished product, with trim marks at the corners. The printer cuts there, and colour reaches the edge with no white slivers.
Add more blocks to compose a document with pages of different size, orientation or template. Leave empty to create just the block above.
Scan a document
from the camera or from images you already have
No pages
Take or upload a photo to start. Each photo becomes a page, in the order you add it — drag the rows to change it.
Every shot stays on this computer: saving the PDF or opening it in the editor uploads no photo anywhere. "Recognise the text" is the only exception, and it asks for separate consent first — see below.
Crop & straighten
Drag the four corners to the edges of the document, then pick a filter.
Put the file right
Everything happens here in the browser. The source file is not modified: what you download is a new copy.
Merge several PDFs
the files stay on this computer
No files. Add at least one.
no files
Drag a row to change its position. In the box next to each file you can limit the pages: 1-3,7 takes the first three and the seventh, 4- from the fourth on. Empty means all of them.
Convert to PDF
Protect with a password
This page is not in a secure context, so the browser does not expose the encryption functions. It needs https or localhost: from a local-network IP address over http, encryption is not available.
Without this, the document does not open. Leave it empty if you want it to open freely but with limited permissions.
It is needed to lift the limits below. If you leave it empty the open password is used, and whoever can open the file can also do everything.
With neither password the file opens by itself and the permissions remain a polite request to readers, not a constraint. If you want them to count, set at least the permissions password.
The encryption is AES 256-bit, revision 6 of the PDF standard, and it is done here in the browser: the password does not leave this computer. Acrobat X and later and every modern reader open it; readers stuck in 2009 do not.
An honest warning: permissions are respected by the reader, not enforced by the file. A program that decides to ignore them, having the open password, succeeds. The only truly solid limit is the open password, because without it the content really is encrypted.
An honest warning: permissions are respected by the reader, not enforced by the file. A program that decides to ignore them, having the open password, succeeds. The only truly solid limit is the open password, because without it the content really is encrypted.
Add a watermark
72 pt
45%
16%
-38°
Empty means all of them. 1-3,7 puts the watermark on the first three pages and the seventh, counted in the file's original order. The watermark is drawn over the content: that is why the opacity has to be low.
Convert to another format
Recognition runs on our server: only those pages leave, and only after your consent. Then you come back here.
Compare two PDFs
the comparison happens here: neither file leaves this computer
Split the PDF
Separate the groups with a semicolon: each group becomes one file. Empty means one page per file.
Number the pages
Remove blank pages
PDF for institutions
validated PDF/A, the way public bodies want it
Check the signatures
nothing leaves this computer: it is only read
Looking for signatures…
This check tells you whether the document is intact and who appears to have signed it. It does NOT tell you whether the certificate belongs to a trusted authority, nor whether it was valid or revoked at signing time: that needs a list of authorities and a network check, neither of which is here.
Fix the recognition
you approve every fix, one by one
Re-reading the text…
This fixes the text layer — the one used for search and copy. The pixels of the scan do not change: what you see stays identical.
Revisions and signatures
Everything that is in this file, not just what the reader shows you.
Redaction counter-check
Covering is not enough, and removing properly does not show. Write what was supposed to disappear: I look for it where PDFs keep holding it.
Read aloud
Analysing
opening the document…