PDFTools
Free, private PDF editor — no server uploads, no signup
16 followers
Free, private PDF editor — no server uploads, no signup
16 followers
40+ free online PDF tools including premium features: compress, merge, split, convert images, extract text, compare PDFs, generate certificates, convert PDF to audio, create booklets, and more. 100% free, no uploads, all processing happens in your browser.
Hey PH! 👋
We built PDFTools because we got tired of uploading sensitive documents
to iLovePDF and Smallpdf's servers. Every time you upload a contract
or tax return to those sites, your file is sitting on a stranger's server.
PDFTools is 100% client-side — your files never leave your browser.
We use pdf-lib, pdfjs-dist, and Tesseract.js running locally via WASM.
24+ tools: compress, merge, split, OCR, edit, sign, AI chat... all free.
What's the #1 PDF pain point we should solve next?
Browser-only processing is genuinely useful for privacy-sensitive PDFs - that part lands. But this is a very crowded space: Stirling-PDF, PDF24, ILovePDF, Smallpdf all offer free tiers and have years of SEO momentum. "40+ tools" is table stakes at this point, not a differentiator. What specifically makes PDFTools worth switching to? Is there a particular tool quality angle, a workflow that others miss, or a target user who isn't served well by the existing players? The AI tag is on the listing but it's not clear from the description what the AI actually does here.
@galdayan Thanks — fair point. “40+ tools” alone isn’t the differentiator anymore; it’s table stakes in this space.PDFTools is focused on being a privacy-first, low-friction PDF workspace for people handling sensitive documents like contracts, invoices, IDs, tax forms, client files, and legal PDFs.
For supported tools, processing happens in the browser, so users don’t need to upload files just to compress, merge, split, sign, rotate, protect, or extract text.The switching reason is mainly: no signup, no install, no upload-first workflow, and a cleaner everyday PDF experience. The audience I’m targeting is students, freelancers, educators, small businesses, and admin/legal users who don’t need heavy Acrobat-style software but still care about privacy. Beyond basic tools, I’m working on workflows like PDF diff, batch processing, metadata sanitization, form data extraction, certificate generation, Bates numbering, and search-based redaction. You’re also right about the AI tag — I need to make that clearer. Current AI features are mainly Chat with PDF, PDF table extraction, and PDF to Audio, with summarization and smarter document understanding planned next.
This is a fantastic tool!
Is this tool limited to manipulating PDF files?
Can it also convert images or documents into PDFs?
@nanimono_masa Yes, this convert multipages pdf to images and vice versa, It has a lot of more features around 45+, generate QR code on each page of singal pdf, it means you can access a singal page from pdf. I would like if you visit the page, you can find a lot more there and I hope you will like it much.
@nanimono_masa For anyone curious, PDFTools currently includes 40+ PDF tools across a few categories:
Core PDF tools: Compress, merge, split, rotate, delete pages, organize pages, crop, resize, flatten, insert blank pages.
Editing & signing: Edit PDF, annotate, fill PDF forms, e-sign PDF, watermark, add page numbers, metadata editor.
Conversion: Image to PDF, scan to PDF, PDF to images, PDF to Word, Word to PDF, PDF to Excel/CSV, HTML to PDF, text to PDF, PDF to PDF/A.
Security & privacy: Password protect, unlock PDF, redact PDF, metadata sanitizer, encrypted browser vault.
Extraction & AI: OCR PDF, extract text, word counter, Chat with PDF, PDF to Audio, form data extraction.
Advanced workflows: Batch processing, PDF diff, certificate generator, booklet creator, bulk rename, QR code stamp, split by bookmarks, Bates numbering, color inverter, search & redact.
@saqib_hayat I see—there really is a lot you can do with just this one tool.
I'll give it a try.
Thanks for the reply.
@nanimono_masa thank you as well.
What data actually leaves my device or workspace when I run PDFTools on something sensitive?
@noah_ben All the files you upload on tools using server upload, you upload your file for some editing and download your edited file but they still have access to your files.
@saqib_hayat Got it, thanks. Congrats for the launch
@noah_ben thanks
@saqib_hayat Appreciate the idea. I was just exploring your website and when I tried using HTML to pdf, I'm not able to get the converted file. Not sure why that was happening.
@aakash_srinivasan Apology sir if you faces any issue, as you there are a lot of features and i checked these by self and also from test users and fix the bugs i found, but there might be issue and i hope that this will be fix soon, thank you for your honest feedback.
@aakash_srinivasan I will try to share update soon
@saqib_hayat Cool, all the best!
@aakash_srinivasan thanks