Vellum analyzes several PDFs at once and produces a table from them: page count, size, page format, title, author, creation date, whether the file is encrypted, whether it has a text layer, and how many attachments it carries. The table exports as CSV or as an Excel workbook — handy for sorting through a batch of received or archived documents. Every file is read directly by your browser, with nothing transferred to a server.
As many as you like, with no limit imposed by the tool — only your device’s memory bounds how many files you drop at once. You can also add files in several batches: they’re appended to the existing table.
Both contain exactly the same columns. The CSV opens everywhere, including in a non-Microsoft spreadsheet app; the Excel workbook (.xlsx) is handy if you want to sort or format the table directly in Excel or LibreOffice.
From the dimensions of the first page, compared against the most common standard sizes (A4, A3, A5, Letter, Legal), portrait or landscape included. A size that matches no standard is shown as-is, in points.
The tool scans the file’s first few pages for selectable text. A document made entirely of scanned images with no character recognition comes back as “Text: No” — a sign that OCR would help before making use of its content.
Vellum — free PDF tools whose processing stays on your device.