Guides, tips, and product news about working with PDF files — privately, in your browser.
July 24, 2026 · 7 min read
All 79 1PDF tools are now live — every one free, unlimited, and processed locally in your browser. Here is a tour of what you can do and why "no upload" matters.
July 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Most online PDF mergers quietly send your files to a server. Here is why that matters for sensitive documents, and how to merge PDF files without uploading them at all.
July 24, 2026 · 4 min read
iPhone photos come out as HEIC — great for storage, terrible for sharing. Here are three practical ways to turn them into a PDF anyone can open.
You do not need an Adobe subscription to sign a PDF. Here is the legal context, the difference between drawn and image signatures, and a free way to sign in your browser.
Scanned PDFs are just pictures of text, which is why Ctrl+F finds nothing. Here is how OCR fixes that — and how to do it free, without uploading your document anywhere.