Eight focused tools for everyday PDF jobs — booklets, pages, merging, converting, compressing and more. Most run right in your browser, so your documents stay yours. No watermarks, no accounts, no fuss.
Turn any PDF into a print-ready booklet. Pages are automatically reordered and paired for double-sided printing, then folded into a proper booklet.
Open Booklet Maker →Reorder pages by drag & drop, rotate, delete, duplicate and extract — visually, with thumbnails, undo/redo, and support for large documents.
Open Organize Pages →Combine several PDFs into one document, or split a PDF by page ranges, into fixed-size chunks, or into single pages. Multiple outputs arrive as a tidy ZIP.
Open Merge & Split →Convert PDF, images and office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) into one PDF, or export any document to PNG, JPEG or WebP images. Mix formats in any order.
Open Document Converter →Analyze what makes a PDF big, then compress it — downsample images, strip metadata and enable Fast Web View. Lossless, Balanced or Maximum, or fine-tune it yourself.
Open Optimize PDF →Password-protect a PDF with AES-256 encryption and fine-grained permissions — printing, copying, editing and more — or remove a password you know and lift its restrictions.
Open Protect & Unlock →Turn a PDF into an editable Word, ODT, RTF, text or Excel file. Scanned PDFs are OCR'd automatically in 10+ languages, keeping layout, tables and images where possible.
Open PDF to Editable →Upload or draw a signature (background removed automatically), add a name and stamp text, then drag it onto one page or all of them. Added as a layer — the page is never rasterized.
Open Signature & Stamp →Find every difference between two versions — text, images, layout and pages — side by side with colored highlights, diff navigation, and JSON or PDF reports. Works with PDF and Word files, scans included.
Open Compare Documents →X-ray any document — pages, text, fonts, images, forms, security, metadata, bookmarks and objects — with problems, recommendations and an estimated size saving. Export the report as JSON, CSV, HTML or PDF.
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Most online PDF tools upload your documents to a server, stamp a watermark on the result, or nudge you toward a subscription. These don't.
Most tools work right in your browser, so your files never leave your device. The few that need a server — Office conversion, compression, protection, OCR — process your file and delete it the instant they're done. Never stored, never logged.
The page-arranging tools never rasterize your pages: text stays selectable and fonts stay crisp. Where a job is about size — compression, image export — you decide the trade-off.
No watermarks, no page caps within the file-size limit, no account. Just fast, focused tools — kept free thanks to readers who chip in for a coffee.
PDF Tools is a collection of small, single-purpose utilities for working with PDF documents — built by an independent developer and free for everyone. Instead of one bloated editor behind a paywall, each tool does one job well and loads instantly. Wherever a browser can handle the work, it does — right on your device, with nothing to upload. The handful of jobs a browser can't do run on a server that deletes your file the second it's finished.
The Booklet Maker reorders a PDF so that, printed double-sided and folded in half, it becomes a proper booklet or zine — with blank-padding, A5/A4/A3/Letter/Legal and custom sheets, and Fit or Fill scaling. Organize Pages shows every page as a thumbnail to drag, rotate, delete, duplicate or extract, with full undo history even across hundreds of pages. All of this happens in your browser, and never rasterizes a page.
Merge & Split joins several files into one in the order you choose, or breaks a PDF apart by ranges, fixed chunks, or single pages — multiple outputs arrive as a tidy ZIP. The Document Converter turns PDFs, images and Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) into one PDF, or exports any document to PNG, JPEG or WebP images. PDFs and images are handled in-browser; Office files are converted on the server and deleted immediately.
Optimize PDF first analyzes what's making a file big, then compresses it with Lossless, Balanced or Maximum profiles — downsampling images, stripping metadata and enabling Fast Web View, with the numbers shown before and after. Protect & Unlock adds AES-256 encryption with fine-grained permissions, or removes a password you already know. Both run on the server and never keep your file.
PDF to Editable Document converts a PDF into Word, ODT, RTF, text or Excel, running OCR automatically for scans in 10+ languages while keeping layout, tables and images where it can. The Signature & Stamp Designer lets you upload or draw a signature (background removed for you), then drag it onto one page or all of them — added as a layer, right in your browser, so the page is never flattened.
Every tool is free and watermark-free, and works in current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge on desktop and mobile.