About PDFCRAFT.SHOP
90 PDF and image tools that run in the browser. No account, no upload, no watermark, no quiet limit that appears after the third file.
Why this exists
The usual online PDF site asks you to upload the document, waits while a server converts it, then hands back a download link. That works, and it is convenient. It also means a copy of your contract, payslip, passport scan or medical letter now sits on a machine you do not control. How long it stays there, who can read it, and whether it is backed up are questions you cannot answer from the page.
For a holiday itinerary, none of that matters. For a signed agreement, a personnel file, or a document under a confidentiality clause, it matters a great deal. PDFCraft was built around a narrower promise: the file should not leave the device it is already on. Everything else follows from that decision.
How the no-upload part works
Each tool is a small application built on browser PDF and image engines, chiefly PDF.js for reading and pdf-lib for writing. When you pick a file, the browser loads it into memory as bytes. The tool edits those bytes, then hands you a new file to save. There is no conversion server in the middle because there does not need to be one.
That architecture explains most of what you notice here. There is no upload progress bar. The tools keep working after the Wi-Fi drops. There is no file-size quota tied to an account, because there is no account. The practical ceiling is your device's memory: a modern phone handles ordinary documents without complaint, while a very large scanned archive is more comfortable on a laptop.
What we will not do
- We will not add an upload step later. If a feature cannot run in the browser, it does not ship. That rules some things out, and the tool page says so rather than pretending.
- We will not hide a paywall behind a progress bar. No three-file daily limit, no 10 MB ceiling, no watermark that disappears after payment.
- We will not promise perfect conversion. A scanned page has no fonts to recover. A complex layout may shift when it becomes a Word file. Knowing that before you start is more useful than a marketing claim.
- We will not invent experience. The guidance on these pages comes from how the tools behave and from common document workflows, not from fictional customers or made-up statistics.
What the tools cover
8 categories follow the life of a document: organising pages (merge, split, extract, rotate, reorder), conversion (PDF to Word, PDF to images, PDF to text, images to PDF), editing (text, watermarks, page numbers, metadata), compression, password and permission handling, OCR for scans, image utilities, and plain text tools. The full list is one page, sorted by category.
How to judge any PDF tool, including this one
Before you put a sensitive document into a website, ask four questions. The answers are usually visible in under a minute.
- Does it upload the file? Watch the network tab, or read the privacy policy for the word "upload". A tool that processes locally will say so plainly.
- What does it keep? "Deleted after one hour" is still a copy that existed. The stronger claim is that no copy was made.
- What is the catch? Watermarks, page limits and "pro" buttons tend to appear at the end of the workflow, after you have invested time.
- Does it admit limits? OCR, conversion and compression all have failure modes. A page that never mentions them is selling, not explaining.
Who runs it
PDFCraft is an independent project, not a division of a larger document company. The tools are free and supported by advertising. Ads sit around the working area and have no access to the file you are editing.
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Get in touch
Found a bug, missing a tool, or hit a document this site handles badly? Write to support@pdfcraft.shop. Include the browser you use and, if you can, the kind of file that failed. Those two details make a report actionable.