For schools and teachers
Your students’ work does not have to leave the school.
PDF tools that run in the browser on the workstation, with nothing to install and nothing to upload. No student data leaves the machine, so there is no processor to add to your record of processing activities.
Three familiar obstacles
Why the usual tools get stuck.
Nothing to install on locked-down machines
School computers do not accept extra software. VellumPDF is a website: an up-to-date browser is enough, on the teacher’s workstation as much as in the computer room.
Student documents are sensitive data
Report cards, medical certificates, enrollment files, assessments: uploading these to a provider is data processing you have to document. Here, the file never leaves the workstation.
A budget with no line for this
The tools are free and unlimited, for the whole school. No license to buy, no renewal to budget for, no procurement process to start.
What local processing changes for a school
A conventional online PDF suite turns your school into an exporter of student data to a third party, often hosted outside Switzerland. By running the processing on the workstation, VellumPDF removes that transfer outright: no recipient, no retention, no transfer abroad. The proof takes ten seconds — open the browser’s Network tab during a job and watch nothing leave — and the matching record can be filed in the school’s register.
The six everyday moves
What a teaching team actually does.
Anonymize a paper before blind marking
Remove the student’s name from the file itself: the redacted passage can no longer be extracted, not merely hidden.
Redact PDF →Halve the printing bill
Put two or four pages on each sheet before printing a handout for a whole class.
Create a booklet →Assemble a student file
Bring report cards, certificates and correspondence together into a single document, in the order you want.
Merge PDF →Put teaching material back in order
Reorder or remove pages with a visual preview, before handing out or projecting them.
Organize pages →Fill in an administrative form
Complete the fields of a PDF form and lock the answers, with no reprinting and no rescanning.
Fill in a form →Protect a sensitive email
Encrypt a document with AES-256 before sending it to a parent, a therapist or a school authority.
Protect PDF →What VellumPDF does not do
VellumPDF is neither legal advice nor a certification, and it replaces neither your record of processing activities nor your data protection officer’s assessment. It does not mark papers, hosts no shared space and syncs nothing between machines. What it offers is more modest and verifiable: the removal of one processor from the routine work you do on your PDFs.
VellumPDF Cabinet, for when it has to be proven in writing.
The Cabinet license adds a written confirmation of local processing to file in your register, a version installable on the school’s internal network, your own visual identity on the tool, and written support. The tools themselves stay free, for students and teachers alike.
VellumPDF in detail: see our privacy page, or the case of students.