About discreetPDF
A one-person project, built so the routine PDF chores never send your file off your device.
Who's behind it
I'm Adrian, and this site is a one-person project. I write the code and I answer the contact form.
Why it exists
It exists because people around me kept uploading sensitive paperwork to whatever PDF site ranked first that day. Bank statements. Tax returns. Those sites process your file on their servers, and the better ones promise to delete it within an hour or two, but you can't check that promise from the outside. I wanted the routine PDF chores to work without the file going anywhere at all, so I built tools that run inside your browser. Your device does the work. My server delivers the app and handles the optional account, billing, and contact plumbing. It never receives your files.
You don't have to take my word for it
Every page here is served with a Content-Security-Policy of connect-src 'self', which stops the page itself from contacting any host other than this one. (Cloudflare's own network-error reporting is not turned on here: no Network Error Logging headers are served, so your browser is never given an endpoint to report a failed page load to. Check the response headers.) The privacy page walks through checking that yourself with your browser's developer tools. It takes about 30 seconds.
How it's funded
The money question deserves a straight answer: today the site earns nothing, and nothing is for sale. The plan is optional paid features later for jobs that need a server, hosted on a separate subdomain, with a clear notice before anything leaves your device. The everyday tools stay free. The details are on the how-we-make-money page, and the commitments I treat as binding are version-stamped on the privacy pledge.
If something's wrong, tell me
If something breaks, or a claim on this site doesn't survive your own testing, I want to hear about it. Use the contact form or write to contact@discreetpdf.com. I read everything that comes in.
All PDF tools
All free, all in your browser. Pick the task you need.
Popular
- PNG to PDFCombine PNGs (screenshots, diagrams, scans) into one PDF.
- JPG to PDFCombine multiple JPG images into a single PDF.
- PDF to PNGRender every page as a lossless PNG. Sharp text, transparency kept.
- Unlock PDFRemove the password from a PDF you can open. Nothing uploaded.
- Word to PDFTurn a Word .docx into a PDF with real, selectable text.
- Merge PDFsCombine several PDFs into one file with drag-to-reorder.
- Compress PDFShrink a PDF down to email size. Three quality levels.
- Split a PDFCut one PDF into many by page ranges or every N pages.
Convert & scan
- PNG to PDFCombine PNGs (screenshots, diagrams, scans) into one PDF.
- JPG to PDFCombine multiple JPG images into a single PDF.
- PDF to PNGRender every page as a lossless PNG. Sharp text, transparency kept.
- Word to PDFTurn a Word .docx into a PDF with real, selectable text.
- PDF to JPGRender every page of a PDF as a JPG image.
- OCR a PDFMake scanned PDFs searchable. The OCR runs in your browser.
- Excel to PDFTurn an Excel .xlsx into a clean, printable PDF.
- PDF to textExtract the text content of a PDF as a plain .txt file.
- PDF to WordTurn a PDF into an editable Word document with paragraphs, headings, and styling recovered from the text.
- PDF to ExcelExtract the tables in a PDF into an Excel spreadsheet, one sheet per page.
- HTML to PDFConvert HTML markup or a saved webpage into a PDF document.
Organize pages
- Merge PDFsCombine several PDFs into one file with drag-to-reorder.
- Split a PDFCut one PDF into many by page ranges or every N pages.
- Organize PDFReorder, delete, rotate, and duplicate pages in one place.
- Split pages in halfCut every page down the middle. Turns two-up book scans into real pages.
- Remove blank pagesFind and drop the empty pages a duplex scan leaves behind. You confirm each one.
- Interleave PDFsCombine two half-scans into one correctly ordered PDF, alternating pages.
- Delete pagesRemove unwanted pages and save a clean copy.
- Extract pagesPull a selection of pages out into a new PDF.
- Reorder pagesDrag pages into the order you actually want.
- Rotate pagesTurn sideways or upside-down pages the right way up.
- Duplicate pagesCopy any page as many times as you need.
- Reverse pagesFlip the page order so the last page comes first.
Edit & sign
- EditorOpen the full editor: text, shapes, drawings, and more.
- Read a PDFRead any PDF in your browser. Search, select, copy. Nothing uploaded.
- Fill a PDF formFill interactive form fields: text, checkboxes, dropdowns.
- Sign a PDFDraw or type a signature and place it on any page.
- Edit PDF textReplace text in place. Fix typos, update names and dates.
- Add image to PDFDrop logos, photos, or stamps onto any PDF page.
- Remove annotationsDelete comments, highlights, and markup for a clean copy.
Security & privacy
- Unlock PDFRemove the password from a PDF you can open. Nothing uploaded.
- Protect PDFAdd an AES-256 password to a PDF. Encrypted in your browser.
- Redact PDFPermanently remove text from a PDF. Destroyed, not covered. All in your browser.
- PDF metadataSee who a PDF says wrote it, then edit or strip it all.
- Clean before sharingStrip metadata, scripts, comments and form data before you send a PDF.
- Sanitize PDFStrip embedded scripts, auto-run actions, and files hidden inside a PDF.
Compress & fix
- Compress PDFShrink a PDF down to email size. Three quality levels.
- Flatten PDFBake form fields and annotations into the page for good.
- PDF RecipesSave a set of steps and run it over many PDFs at once. Nothing uploaded.
- Resize PDFResize pages to A4, Letter, or any scale, proportions kept.
- Crop PDFTrim margins off every page, and actually delete what you cut.
Stamp & number
- Court filing prepBates-number a whole production, stamp it, and lock it, all in one pass.
- Watermark a PDFStamp text across every page: DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, your name.
- Header & footerStamp text into the margins: CONFIDENTIAL, dates, filenames, page counts.
- Bates numberingSequential legal numbering across a whole document set. No file cap.
- Add page numbersNumber every page. You pick the corner and the format.