Help & FAQ

Most are not. 51 tools run inside your browser, so the file never leaves your device. A few need our server: Repair PDF, Word to PDF, PowerPoint to PDF, HTML to PDF, PDF to PDF/A, Protect PDF, Unlock PDF. Their pages say Processed on our server, then deleted, and the file is deleted as soon as the result is sent back.

No. Browser tools never send them to us, and server tools delete the file straight after processing.

AI Summarizer and Translate PDF send the text through our server to an AI provider, and we don’t keep a copy. Grammar Check sends your text to LanguageTool, a free grammar service. The quick summary and every other tool keep your text in your browser. Details are in the privacy policy.

Results appear under “Your file is ready”. Open the preview to check it, then press Download — nothing is saved to your device until you do.

Browser tools take files up to 250 MB, and up to 50 files at once. Tools that run on our server take files up to 60 MB. Very large files depend on your device having the memory to hold them.

A scan is a picture of the page. Run it through OCR PDF first to add real text, then use the other tools.

Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on computers and phones. Very large files work best on a computer.

Yes. Text to PDF, Excel to PDF, Watermark PDF, Page Numbers, Header & Footer and Edit PDF write any script correctly, including emoji. Text in those scripts is placed as an image, so it can’t be selected in the PDF.

Many PDFs in these scripts store their text in an order that can’t be read back correctly, even though the page looks right. Tools that pull text out of such a PDF show the same jumble. Running the file through OCR PDF usually gives cleaner text.

Every tool, with no account and no limit on use. That also includes 3 AI runs a day and 12 server conversions an hour. The only thing that costs anything is an AI run past the free ones — see pricing.

You get 3 free AI runs a day and they come back after 24 hours. A whole document counts as one run, however many pages it has. To keep going straight away, sign in and add balance — runs are then charged by what they actually use, usually a few cents. The offline summary in AI Summarizer has no limit at all.

Only to hold a balance for AI runs. Everything else works signed out. Signing in uses your Google account, and we keep your email address, name and picture — nothing else, and never your files. You can delete the account, and anything left on it, from your account page.