.pdf file format
Merge, split, rotate, flip, mirror, clean, inspect, extract, and prepare PDF files directly in your browser.
Format
Original files stay unchanged. Tools download a new file when output is generated.
Every tool listed here works with .pdf files and runs in your browser. If the task you need is not here, the related formats below may cover it.
Merge multiple PDF files page-by-page in upload order and download one combined PDF.
Split a PDF into smaller files by page range or selection.
Delete selected pages from a PDF and download a cleaned copy.
Select PDF pages and save them as a separate document.
Rotate every page in a PDF locally in your browser and download a new copy.
Rotate PDF pages 90 or 180 degrees locally and save the corrected file.
Flip PDF pages horizontally or vertically locally in your browser and download a new copy.
Mirror PDF pages left-to-right or top-to-bottom locally in your browser.
Permanently delete embedded images from a PDF locally in your browser while keeping text and vector content intact.
Find document images, preview thumbnails, and export selected images from a PDF document.
Find hyperlinks in a PDF document and remove selected links while keeping the file usable.
Find, inspect, copy, and export links from a PDF document.
Find email addresses in a PDF document and export them as clean text or CSV.
Find email addresses in a PDF document and remove or replace them before sharing.
View and remove hidden metadata from a PDF document before sharing.
Extract readable text from a PDF document and copy or download it.
Find comments, notes, and annotations in a PDF document and remove selected items.
Run a document cleanup checklist for images, links, emails, metadata, comments, and hidden content.
A PDF describes where every glyph and shape sits on a page. That is what makes it print identically everywhere, and also what makes it awkward to edit: there are no paragraphs to reflow, only positioned content. Page-level work — merging, splitting, reordering, rotating — is straightforward. Rewriting the text inside a page is a different and much harder job.
A PDF produced by exporting a document contains a real text layer, and extraction works. A PDF produced by scanning contains a photograph of a page and no text at all, so extraction correctly returns nothing. If a PDF looks like text but behaves like an image, it needs OCR before any text tool can help.
Drawing a filled rectangle over a passage adds a shape on top of the page. The characters underneath stay in the content stream and can be selected, copied, or extracted in seconds. If something must be unrecoverable, remove it in the source document and export a new PDF — then extract the text of the result to confirm it is gone.
PDFs carry an Info dictionary (Title, Author, Creator, Producer, timestamps) and often an XMP metadata stream that duplicates the same fields in XML. Clearing one can leave the other, so the author name reappears depending on which a reader prefers. Annotations and filled form fields are stored separately again.
It is almost certainly a scan. A scanned page is an image with no text layer, so there is nothing to extract. You need OCR to create a text layer first.
Pages, text, and images carry over reliably. Bookmarks, the document outline, interactive form fields, and annotations are more fragile and can be dropped or flattened. Check the merged file if those matter.
Not while it is encrypted — the pages cannot be read without decrypting them. Remove the password in a reader that has it first.
No. Document properties are not part of the page content, so the visible pages are unchanged. Only the Info dictionary and XMP metadata are removed.
Background on the problems these tools solve, with worked examples.
PDFs store two parallel sets of metadata plus annotations, form values, and attachments. Here is what is in there, and why a black box is not redaction.
Combine PDFs entirely in your browser, with no upload, no file size cap, and no queue — plus the cases where a local merge behaves differently from a server one.
A short pre-send checklist for PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files: what to look at, in what order, and which checks people usually skip.