About PDF Tools

Why this site exists

Many online PDF services ask you to upload documents to a server you know nothing about, often alongside a signup form and a daily limit. Most everyday jobs, such as turning phone photos into one PDF, joining two files or pulling pages out of a long document, do not need any of that. Modern browsers can do the work on your own device. PDF Tools is built around that idea.

What we offer

• Image to PDF for JPG, PNG and WebP images, with page size, orientation and margin options.
• JPG to PDF for photos and scans, keeping upright JPEG data as it is.
• Merge PDF to join files in the order you choose.
• Split PDF to extract pages or cut a PDF by range.
• Compress PDF to shrink a PDF by recompressing its images, or by flattening pages when you need a size target.
• Written guides and a blog that explain the why behind each setting.

What we deliberately do not offer

Compression here is deliberately limited: it shrinks embedded images or flattens pages, and it cannot promise a size. There is no text recognition, password removal or editing. We would rather do five things well and describe their limits honestly than list features that do not work properly. When something is a limitation, such as encrypted files or very large documents on phones, we say so on the tool pages.

How the tools work

Your files are read and processed by code running in your browser. They are not uploaded to our servers. The result is created in memory and handed to you as a download. We explain the details, including the limits, in the article on whether online PDF tools are safe and in the Privacy Policy.

How the site is funded

The site is free. It is supported by advertising from Google AdSense, which is shown only on reading pages and never while a tool is working or a download is ready. Ads are labelled, kept away from buttons and subject to your cookie choices.

How we write

Every article is written to help someone finish a real task, and it names what the tools cannot do. We update pages when browsers or tools change. If you find a mistake, please tell us and we will fix it and note the date.

Get in touch

Write to gettoolspace@gmail.com or use the contact page.