Every PDF tool you need — plus AI superpowers.

Most PDF problems are one of five jobs wearing different clothes: the file is too big, the pages are in the wrong order or the wrong file, the content needs to become editable, something on the page must be hidden or protected, or somebody needs to read and act on it faster. The categories above map onto those jobs. This section is the shortcut for when you know the symptom but not the tool.

"The file is too big to email"

Start with Compress PDF. If the document is a scan, compression alone rarely gets you where you need to be — run OCR PDF first so the text layer survives, then compress with image downsampling at 150 DPI for screen reading. If only a few pages matter, Extract Pages will beat any compression setting, because the smallest file is the one that does not contain the pages you never needed.

"I have ten files and need one"

Merge PDF combines them and lets you reorder by thumbnail before export. If the pages inside a single file are wrong instead, use Organize PDF for reordering, Rotate for orientation, and Remove Pages for the blanks a scanner inserted. Splitting a large batch into per-document files is Split PDF, and if the boundaries follow content rather than a fixed page count, Smart Split proposes them for you.

"I need to edit or reuse the content"

PDF to Word for prose you will rewrite, PDF to Excel for tabular data you will calculate on, PDF to PowerPoint for slides. All three depend entirely on whether the PDF has a real text layer: a born-digital export converts cleanly, a photograph of a page converts to nothing useful until OCR has run. For small fixes — a wrong date, an added paragraph, a signature block — Edit PDF is faster than a round trip through Word and will not reflow your layout.

"This must not leak"

Redact PDF removes the underlying text objects rather than covering them, which is the distinction between redaction and a black rectangle that anyone can copy text out of. Protect PDF adds AES-256 encryption with an open password and separate permission controls. Unlock PDF removes restrictions from documents you are entitled to open. Before sending anything sensitive, check the document properties too — author names and revision history travel with the file.

"I need to understand or act on it"

The AI category exists for reading work rather than page work: summarising long reports, chatting with a document, translating while keeping structure, comparing two versions with a redlined output, extracting KPIs into charts and tables, and scanning contracts for risky clauses. These are the tools that need server compute, which is why they sit behind trial runs and a subscription while the page-level tools stay free.

Where your files are processed

The essential tools run entirely in your browser with WebAssembly, so the document never leaves your device and works on a slow connection. The AI tools necessarily send extracted text to our AI infrastructure to produce a result. Which category a given tool falls into is stated on its own page, and the handling rules are set out in our privacy notice — not buried in a footnote.