Welcome to 1PDF: 79 Free PDF Tools, No Uploads
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Your files never leave your device
Most online PDF tools follow the same pattern: you upload a file, wait in a queue, and download the result from a server you know nothing about. For a boarding pass that is merely annoying. For a contract, a medical record, or a bank statement, it is a real risk — you have just handed a copy of a sensitive document to a stranger. 1PDF was built to remove that trade-off entirely.
Every one of the 79 tools on this site runs locally in your browser. The code travels to your device; your files never do. When you merge, compress, or sign a PDF here, your own computer does the work using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Our servers only deliver the web page itself, which is why we can honestly say your documents cannot leak from us: we never receive them.
Organize: merge, split, and reshape pages
The largest group of tools handles the everyday job of reshaping PDF documents. Combine several files into one with Merge PDF, pull out a single chapter with Split PDF or Extract Pages, reorder a document visually with Organize PDF, and fix scans that came in sideways with Rotate PDF. There are also quieter utilities people discover exactly when they need them: reverse page order for a printer, remove blank pages from a long scan, or insert a blank page where a signature page should go.
- Merge PDF — combine any number of files in your chosen order
- Split PDF and Extract Pages — pull page ranges into new files
- Organize PDF — drag thumbnails into a new order
- Rotate, reverse, crop, and delete pages
Try it now: Merge PDF
Free and unlimited — processed locally in your browser, no upload, no signup.
Convert to and from PDF
Conversion works in both directions. Turning images into PDF covers JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, BMP, TIFF, SVG, and even Photoshop PSD files — handy when a phone photo or a design draft needs to become a shareable document. Going the other way, PDF pages can be exported as JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, or TIFF images at the resolution you choose, and the text layer can be pulled out as plain TXT or structured JSON.
Because conversion runs on your device, there is no file-size tier and no queue. A 40-megapixel HEIC photo from an iPhone converts as fast as your hardware allows, and nothing is throttled to nudge you toward a paid plan.
- JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF, SVG and more → PDF
- PDF → JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP or TIFF images
- PDF → TXT or JSON for text extraction
Try it now: JPG to PDF
Free and unlimited — processed locally in your browser, no upload, no signup.
Edit, secure, and sign
Editing tools cover the annotations documents pick up on their way through an office: watermarks for drafts, page numbers for reports, headers and footers for consistency, and stamps for approvals. Sign PDF lets you draw or place a signature anywhere on the page, which handles most permission slips and freelance contracts without a subscription to anything.
On the security side you can encrypt a PDF with a password, decrypt one you own, remove printing restrictions from a file you are entitled to modify, strip hidden metadata before publishing a document, or sanitize a PDF that arrived from an untrusted source. Each of these operations happens offline, so the password you type never crosses the network either.
Try it now: Sign PDF
Free and unlimited — processed locally in your browser, no upload, no signup.
Heavy-duty utilities for power users
Some jobs are simply heavy, and they benefit the most from local processing. OCR PDF recognizes text in scanned documents so they become searchable and selectable. Compress PDF shrinks oversized files for email attachments. Extract Images pulls every embedded photo out of a document in original quality, and Extract Tables turns PDF tables into CSV data you can open in a spreadsheet. There is even a booklet imposition tool for printing zines and a PDF/A converter for long-term archiving.
Try it now: OCR PDF
Free and unlimited — processed locally in your browser, no upload, no signup.
Free today, free tomorrow
All 79 tools are free, with no daily caps, no watermarks, and no accounts. The site is supported by unobtrusive advertising, which works because our costs are genuinely low: processing happens on your hardware, not ours. An optional Pro plan removes the ads for people who prefer to support the project directly, but no feature sits behind the paywall.
This blog will publish practical guides — how to sign a lease from your phone, how to prepare a PDF for print, how to shrink a portfolio under an application portal's size limit — alongside notes on browser-based document processing. If there is a tool or a topic you would like us to cover, write to hello@1pdf.best.
Frequently asked questions
Are all 79 tools really free?
Yes. Every tool is free to use with no page limits, no watermarks, and no daily caps. The site is funded by advertising, and an optional Pro subscription removes the ads. No PDF feature is locked behind a paywall.
Do I need to install anything or create an account?
No. All tools run in your web browser on any modern version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari, on desktop and mobile. There is nothing to install, and no account is required for the free tools.
What happens to my files after I process them?
Nothing, because we never have them. Your files are read by your own browser, processed in memory on your device, and the result is saved straight to your downloads. Close the tab and no trace of the document remains anywhere but your own storage.
Why do other PDF sites ask me to upload files?
Their tools run on remote servers, so your document must travel to them before anything can happen. 1PDF ships the processing code to your browser instead, which is faster, handles large files without queues, and keeps private documents private.