My privacy pledge
What I promise about your files. Scoped, dated, and meant to be held to.
The free PDF tools on discreetpdf.com (edit, merge, split, sign) always run 100% in your browser. Your file's contents never leave your device. Only clearly labeled, opt-in paid features (cloud AI, advanced OCR, high-fidelity conversion) ever send a file off your device, and I tell you, in plain language, before they do. I will never weaken the free local tools to push you toward a paid one, and I will never make this change quietly.Pledge v1, June 7, 2026.
What always stays on your device
The free tools (editing, merging, splitting, signing, page organizing, and the in-browser conversions) process your file entirely in your browser. The bytes are read into memory, changed on your own machine, and written back as a download. They are never uploaded, never copied to a server, and never logged. A strict Content-Security-Policy blocks uploads at the browser level, and you can verify it yourself in 30 seconds.
What would ever touch a server
A few advanced features I plan to add need a server to do their work, because the server has to read your file to process it: cloud AI (chat with or summarize a document), high-accuracy OCR for handwriting and noisy scans, and server-rendered Office conversion for the tricky layouts the free in-browser converter can’t fully reproduce. When I ship them, they will be:
- Optional and paid. Never required to use the free tools.
- Opt-in, with a clear prompt before anything leaves your device.
- On a separate address, not this one, so the free tools stay a clean, no-upload surface you can keep verifying.
- Honest about their limits. A server that reads your file to summarize or OCR it is not "zero-knowledge," and I won't pretend otherwise. I'll encrypt those transfers, process in memory, delete promptly, and never log your file's contents.
What I'll never do
- Weaken or cripple the free local tools to push you toward a paid one.
- Quietly move a feature that runs locally today onto a server. Any change to that boundary gets announced in advance, never made as a silent edit.
- Add third-party analytics, ad networks, or trackers to the site.
- Sell your data. The only data I hold is basic server logs and, for anyone who signs in, an account record, a session row per sign-in, and a billing record if they bought a pass, all detailed on the privacy page.
How I pay for it
No ads, and I never sell your data. Nothing is for sale yet; the plan is to fund the free local tools with subscriptions to the optional paid features above. Here's the full business model.
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 — 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.
- 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 — in your browser.
- PDF metadataSee who a PDF says wrote it, then edit or strip it all.
- Sanitize PDFStrip embedded scripts, auto-run actions, and files hidden inside a PDF.