Seventeen tools. Ten are free and unlimited without an account. The seven heavier ones — the ones that need real processing power — give you five a day free.
The work most browser-based tools can't attempt at all, because it needs genuine processing rather than a quick rearrange of pages.
A scan or a photo of a document is just a picture — you can't search it, select it, or copy a line out of it. OCR reads the text back into the file so all of that works, and leaves your original image quality alone.
Get an editable .docx back, with tables still tables and layout intact — for when you need to change the wording in a document somebody sent you as a finished PDF.
Drawing a black box over text does not remove it — the words sit underneath and can be copied straight out. This deletes the text itself, so what's hidden is genuinely gone.
For a file that won't open, throws an error, or arrived half-downloaded. Rebuilds the document's internal structure and salvages whatever pages are still readable.
Move a document between formats when the thing you need to do next won't accept a PDF.
Every page becomes its own JPG — useful for slide decks, listings, and anywhere an image uploads but a PDF doesn't.
The same idea as JPG, but lossless and with sharper edges — the better pick for diagrams, screenshots and line art.
Strips out the words as plain text with no formatting. Handy when you want to paste the contents somewhere or search through it quickly.
Turn photos or screenshots into one tidy PDF — the usual fix when someone asks for a document and all you have is pictures from your phone.
Not sure which direction you need? Start here and pick the format from one place.
Rearranging what's already there — pages in, pages out, pages the right way up. All free, all unlimited, no account.
Combine several PDFs into one, in whatever order you drag them into. Nothing is re-compressed, so quality is untouched.
Break one document into separate files — every page on its own, or a chosen range pulled out as its own PDF.
Keep only the pages you want, or drop the ones you don't. The quickest way to send someone page 4 instead of all forty.
Straighten out pages that scanned in sideways or upside down, and save the correct orientation permanently.
The last step before a document leaves your hands — small enough to send, and locked down enough to share.
Bring a file under an email or upload limit. You choose how hard to squeeze, and you never get back something larger than you started with.
Lock a document with AES-256 encryption so it can't be opened without the password — the sensible step before emailing anything personal.
Stamp DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL or your own wording across the pages, so a copy that escapes is obvious for what it is.
Bake form fields, annotations and signatures permanently into the page so nobody can edit, move or undo them afterwards.