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Organize
Open a PDF
Open and page through a PDF: zoom, rotation, search, printing.
Merge PDF
Combine PDFs, images and Office files into a single PDF, in the order you choose.
Split PDF
Cut a PDF into several documents, by page ranges.
Extract pages
Select the pages worth keeping and export them as a new PDF.
Delete pages
Choose the pages to remove from a PDF; the rest of the document is kept.
Organize pages
Reorder, rotate, delete or add pages by drag and drop.
Rotate PDF
Rotate every page or only some of them, by 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
Resize a PDF
Bring every page to the same format — A4, Letter, A3 — or to a given scale.
Create a booklet
Place up to 16 pages on each sheet, to print less paper.
Compare two PDFs
Spot what changed between two versions — word by word and pixel by pixel.
Phone to computer
Send a PDF or a scan from your phone to your computer, and back, by scanning a QR code — straight from one device to the other.
Search across PDFs
Index a whole folder of PDFs on this device and search a word across every document at once.
Split by size
Split a PDF into chunks under a given size (e.g. 10 MB for email).
Bookmarks & outline
Read, edit or create the bookmarks (outline) of a PDF.
PDF inventory
Drop several PDFs and get a summary table you can export as CSV or Excel.
Assemble a dossier
Bring your documents — PDFs, photos, Word files — together into a single PDF with a cover page, contents, page numbers and bookmarks, sized for the portal’s limit.
Convert
PDF to images
Export every page as a high-quality PNG or JPG, in a single ZIP archive.
Extract images
Recover every image embedded in a PDF, as separate files.
Images to PDF
Assemble your JPGs and PNGs into a clean, ordered PDF.
OCR — make it readable
Recognize the text in a scan and export it, without sending it to a server.
PDF to text
Extract all the text from a PDF into a .txt file, page by page.
PDF to Markdown
Convert a PDF into structured Markdown, with headings inferred from font size.
Local PDF assistant
Summarize a PDF, ask it a question, translate a passage or turn it into flashcards — a small model that runs on your device, sending nothing.
Scan with your camera
Photograph your pages with the camera and get a multi-page PDF.
PDF to Word
Export the text of a PDF as an editable Word document (.docx).
PDF to Excel
Extract tables from a PDF as an Excel file (.xlsx) or CSV.
PDF to PowerPoint
Turn each page of a PDF into a faithful PowerPoint slide, with its text in the notes.
Office to PDF
Convert a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document to PDF, text and all.
ODT to PDF
Convert a LibreOffice or OpenOffice document (.odt, .ods, .odp) to PDF, headers, footers and bookmarks included.
Markdown to PDF
Convert a Markdown file (.md) into a clean PDF: headings as bookmarks, tables, code, clickable links.
EPUB to PDF
Convert an EPUB ebook to a paginated PDF, chapters, images and table of contents included.
RTF to PDF
Convert an RTF document (WordPad, TextEdit, Word) to PDF, formatting, tables and images included.
Edit & sign
Clean AI text
Strip invisible characters, leftover Markdown, link trackers and chatbot phrases from text copied out of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
Edit text
Correct the text already written in the PDF: click a passage and rewrite it.
Annotate PDF
Add text on top, highlight, draw and stamp an image.
Watermark
Apply a text or image watermark — adjustable position, tiling, opacity and angle.
Overlay two PDFs
Apply a second PDF above or below every page of the first: letterhead, background, frame.
Number the pages
Add page numbers — position, format and starting page of your choice.
Sign PDF
Draw, type or import your signature, then place it on one page or several.
Swiss QR-bill
Create the payment part of a QR-bill, or add it to your PDF invoice — in line with the Swiss Payment Standards.
Fill in a form
Complete the fields of a PDF form and lock your answers.
Create a PDF form
Turn a PDF into a fillable form: text, checkboxes, choices, lists, dates, signature — with automatic field detection.
Metadata
View and edit the title, author, subject and keywords of the document.
Bates numbering
Apply a continuous Bates stamp across one or more PDFs (prefix + counter).
Create a table of contents
Automatically detect a PDF’s headings and build a table of contents.
PDF attachments
List, extract, add or remove the files embedded in a PDF.
Remove a watermark
Detect and remove overlaid watermarks from a PDF you own the rights to.
Protect
Unlock PDF
Remove the password and restrictions from a PDF you legitimately have access to.
Redact PDF
Hide passages for good: the text is destroyed, not merely covered up.
Protect PDF
Encrypt your PDF with AES-256 and restrict printing or copying.
Sanitize a PDF
Removes embedded JavaScript, automatic actions on opening, and actions attached to links.
Pre-send check
Before sending a PDF, see what it gives away: faulty redaction, earlier versions, metadata, tracking links, AI leftovers.
Accessibility check
A point-by-point report: title, language, real text, tags, alternative text, contrast.
Sign with a certificate
Sign a PDF with your own certificate (.p12/.pfx): an advanced electronic signature, computed in your browser.
Check a signature
A read-only report on the signatures in a PDF: signer, dates, integrity of the signed content.
Optimize
Print as a poster
Split a page across several A4, A3 or Letter sheets to glue together.
Split pages in half
Separate the double pages of a book or notebook scanned open into single pages.
Prepare for the print shop
Add bleed, crop marks and registration marks before professional printing.
Batch processing
Apply the same operation to several documents in one go.
Processing workflow
Compose a recipe of steps and apply it to a hundred files at once.
Optimize PDF for the web
Linearize a PDF so its first page shows on a website before the download finishes.
Compress PDF
Reduce the weight of your PDFs with the quality level you choose.
Crop PDF
Trim the margins of every page with a live preview.
Flatten PDF
Merge forms and annotations into the content to freeze the document.
Repair a PDF
Rebuilds the structure of a corrupted PDF so it opens again.
Enhance a scan
Clean up a blurry or grey scan: whitened background, contrast, crisp text.
Remove blank pages
Spot the empty pages of a scan and remove them in one go.
Find duplicate pages
Find pages scanned twice and keep a single copy.
Straighten scan orientation
Set sideways, upside-down or slightly tilted scanned pages straight.
PDF to grayscale
Convert a colour PDF to grayscale for economical printing.
Convert to PDF/A
Prepare a PDF for long-term archiving, in a conforming mode (veraPDF-validated) or a faithful mode.
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