Privacy
The right question: does the file leave my device
With contracts, bank statements and identity documents, that question comes before any question about quality or price.
Try a tool that uploads nothingMerging runs on your side
The answer is not the same for every tool, which is why it deserves a list rather than a marketing sentence. The rule is simple: what handles pages runs in the browser, and what rebuilds content needs a server.
Run inside your browser
These never upload the file
- Merging files and splitting them
- Rotating, deleting and extracting pages
- Adding a watermark or page numbers
- Signing inside the file
- Turning images into PDF
Need a processing service
These send the file, and the result is deleted after sixty minutes
- Converting PDF to Word or Excel
- Converting Office documents to PDF
- Reducing the file size
The two rules
- Runs the page tools entirely in your browser: those files are never uploaded
- Compresses a PDF to make it smaller, on the server like the conversions
There is no way to convert a PDF to Word inside the browser alone, so we do not promise it. The choice between the two stays with you.
The commercial side
- Keep your converted file afterwards — a server-side result is held for 60 minutes and then deleted
- Let you download the result without a subscription — running the tool is open to everyone, the download is not