PurePDF HQ: Free PDF Tools That Never Upload Your Files

Hi, I'm the maker. I built PurePDF HQ because most free PDF sites ask you to upload your file to their server, and some PDFs (contracts, tax forms, ID scans) should not leave your computer.

Every tool runs in your browser. Merge and Compress run qpdf (open source) on your device; Search PDFs and Compare run PDF.js. You can check it yourself: open the browser's Network tab, run a tool, and you will see no request that carries your file. The home page has the steps.

There are 40 tools today: organize (merge, split, rotate, reorder, extract, crop and more), convert (PDF to JPG/PNG, images to PDF, Markdown to PDF), optimize (compress to a size you type, repair, flatten) and secure (sign, protect, unlock, remove metadata), plus Compare and Search PDFs across many files.

It is free and needs no account. The limit is your device's memory: the Merge page gives real numbers for iPhones, and says so before it starts if a file is too big. I count page views and which tools get used with Vercel Analytics, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. None of them receive your files or file names; the privacy page lists exactly what is collected.

Not built yet: OCR, PDF to Word/Excel/CSV and redaction. I would like to hear which PDF job you could not finish without an upload, and anything that broke on your files.

Hi, I'm the maker. I built PurePDF HQ because most free PDF sites ask you to upload your file to their server, and some PDFs (contracts, tax forms, ID scans) should not leave your computer.

Not built yet: OCR, PDF to Word/Excel/CSV and redaction. I would like to hear which PDF job you could not finish without an upload, and anything that broke on your files.