PDF tools
14 tools for the everyday PDF jobs: combine and shrink documents, sign and number them, pull out text and pictures and move between PDFs and images. Your documents never leave this device.
- Merge PDFCombine PDFs, in the order you choose
- Split PDFPull out page ranges or separate every page
- Rotate PDFFix sideways pages, one or all
- Delete PDF PagesRemove pages you don’t want
- Reorder PDF PagesMove pages into the right order
- PDF to JPGEvery page as an image, at the DPI you need
- PDF to PNGLossless page images, crisp text
- Compress PDFShrink the images, keep the text sharp
- Add Page Numbers to PDFPosition, format, start number, skip the cover
- Watermark PDFDRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL or your own words
- Sign PDFDraw, type or upload a signature and place it
- PDF to TextCopy the words out, in reading order
- Extract Images From PDFThe original image files, not screenshots
- Image to PDFTurn photos and scans into one document
Which tool for which job
| You want to | Use |
|---|---|
| Combine several documents into one | Merge PDF |
| Pull out a chapter or a few pages | Split PDF |
| Separate a batch scan into one file per page | Split PDF, one file per page |
| Fix pages that are sideways or upside down | Rotate PDF |
| Remove a cover sheet or blank pages | Delete PDF pages |
| Fix an interleaved double-sided scan | Reorder PDF pages |
| Get a PDF under an email or upload limit | Compress PDF |
| Sign a form or contract and send it back | Sign PDF |
| Number the pages of a report or thesis | Add page numbers |
| Mark a document DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL | Watermark PDF |
| Copy all the words out of a PDF | PDF to text |
| Get the text out of a scanned PDF | Image to text, which reads the pages with OCR |
| Get the photos out of a brochure or catalogue | Extract images |
| Put pages into a slide, a chat or a web page | PDF to JPG or PDF to PNG for text-heavy pages |
| Turn phone photos of documents into one PDF | Image to PDF |
| Hide something in a PDF so it can’t be recovered | PDF to JPG, then Redact, then Image to PDF |
What they have in common
None of the page tools re-render a page. A PDF is a set of objects with an index saying which belong to which page and merging, splitting, deleting, reordering and rotating all work by building a new index over the same objects. Text stays text, fonts stay embedded and images are the same images afterwards. Rotation in particular changes a single number on each page, which is why it is the one operation with no quality cost at all.
The stamping tools, page numbers, watermarks and signatures, follow the same principle from the other direction. They add new content on top of each page and leave the existing content alone, so a numbered or signed document is the same document with something added. Compress PDF touches only the photographs inside a file, never its text or fonts.
The conversion tools are different by nature. PDF to JPG and PDF to PNG render pages into pictures, so the text in them stops being text. Image to PDF wraps pictures in a PDF, so the document is searchable only if something has recognised the words in them. PDF to text and Extract images go the other way, taking the words and the pictures out as they’re stored.
Redacting a PDF safely
The most common way sensitive information leaks from a PDF is a black box drawn over text that is still there underneath, selectable and copyable. The reliable fix is to turn the pages into images, cover what must go and rebuild the PDF from those images. The words are then genuinely gone, not merely hidden. The trade is that the document is no longer searchable.
Guides
Common questions
Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?
No. Every PDF tool on this site runs in your browser. The document is read from your disk, changed in memory and handed back as a download, which matters for the contracts, statements and records that make up most of what people merge and split.
Do these tools reduce the quality of my PDF?
Merging, splitting, deleting, reordering and rotating never re-render a page. They copy the existing page content into a new document, so text stays selectable, fonts stay embedded and images are untouched. Page numbers, watermarks and signatures are added on top without changing what is underneath. Only PDF to JPG and PDF to PNG render pages, because an image is the point of those tools.
Can I edit the text in a PDF here?
No. Editing text inside a PDF means rewriting its content streams, which is a job for a PDF editor rather than a browser tool and doing it badly produces documents that look right and break in other readers. These tools work on whole pages.
Why will my PDF not open?
Nearly always a password. An encrypted PDF can’t be read at all without its password and these tools don’t ask for one, so they say the file is protected instead of failing silently. Remove the password in the application that made the file and try again.
Can I compress a PDF here?
Yes. Compress PDF re-encodes the photographs inside the document and leaves text, fonts and drawings exactly as they were, so the result stays searchable and sharp. Most online compressors turn each page into a picture instead, which shrinks the file and quietly destroys the text.