Every PDF tool you need, in one place
Merge, split, compress, edit, sign and convert PDFs — free, with no sign-up. Your files are processed right here in your browser and never uploaded.
- Never uploadedYour files are worked on in your browser
- Big files welcomeNo upload size limit: your device's memory is the only one
- No sign-upNo account, no email
Other PDF sites upload your file and delete it 1–24 hours later. PDFWillow never receives it.
How it compares
| What | PDFWillow | Typical PDF sites |
|---|---|---|
| Your file | Stays on your device | Uploaded to their servers, deleted after 1–24 hours |
| Free limits | None | A few tasks an hour or a day, file-size caps |
| Account | Never needed | Often asked for, or a trial pushed |
| Tools | 198 | About 20–100 |
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Organize
Merge PDFCombine files into one, in any order you like.
Split PDFOne PDF per page, delivered as a ZIP.
Organize pagesReorder, duplicate, delete and reverse pages.
Rotate PDFTurn all, odd, even, landscape or chosen pages by 90° or 180°.
Crop PDFTrim margins in mm, auto-trim white borders, or drag the area to keep.
Remove blank pagesFinds empty pages and scans with only specks — select, delete, or split at separator sheets.
Find duplicatesRepeated pages, even the same page scanned twice — selected or deleted.
Table of contentsA clickable contents page from bookmarks or headings, numbered or dotted, with bookmarks.
Enhance scansAuto levels, clean edges and punch holes, remove specks, sharpen or black & white.
Straighten scansMeasures each crooked page's tilt and levels it, to a tenth of a degree.
Auto-crop marginsTrims the white space around content.
Extract pagesPick pages by number, odd or even — one new PDF, or one per page.
Remove pagesType the pages you don't want and download the rest.
Resize pagesAny paper — Letter, Legal, A3, A4, A5 or your own size — fitted or filled.
Scan & import
Scan with cameraPhotograph pages, straighten the corners, clean to a crisp scan.
Photo to scanFix the perspective of a photographed page and clean it up.
From web addressOpen a PDF or image straight from a link.
Paste a screenshotCtrl+V an image from your clipboard as a page.
Type a documentWrite with headings and bullets, get PDF pages.
CSV to PDF tableSpreadsheet exports become neat, paginated tables.
HTML to PDFA saved web page, with its headings and lists kept.
Markdown to PDFREADME-style .md files laid out as pages.
Any image to PDFWebP, GIF, BMP, SVG and AVIF, not just JPG and PNG.
ZIP to PDFA ZIP of photos or PDFs becomes one document, in order.
Photos on Letter / A4Centre every picture on a standard page with margins.
Edit & sign
Edit textClick any line in the PDF and retype it.
AnnotateHighlights, boxes, arrows and drawings.
Sign PDFDraw your signature and place it on any page.
Find & replaceChange a word everywhere, format kept.
Add linksMake any area open a web address.
Create formAdd real text fields, checkboxes and date fields.
Auto-link URLsWeb addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, DOIs and “see page 12” become clickable.
CommentsSticky-note comments that open in any PDF reader.
QR codeTurn a web address into a scannable code on the page.
Highlight textSeveral words at once, each in its own colour — highlight, underline, strikethrough or squiggle.
Redact personal dataFinds emails, phone, card and ID numbers, names and addresses and blacks them out.
RedactBlack out by hand or by search; it's baked in on export.
WatermarkText or logo in any font, colour, angle and spot, on the pages you pick.
Page numbersAny position, font, size and colour, or your own words.
Compare PDFsEvery change between two versions, marked up side by side.
Fill formType into the PDF's own form fields.
Optimize & secure
Compress PDFSmaller files at three quality levels.
Grayscale PDFCompress and drop the color at the same time.
Unlock PDFOpen a protected file; the export has no password.
Protect PDFPassword and AES encryption, with print/copy permissions.
Remove metadataStrip author, title, dates and hidden XMP data.
Batch processStamp, number or protect many files at once, one PDF each.
OCR — make searchableReads scanned pages and adds a hidden text layer you can search and copy.
Flatten PDFBake in forms and comments, or turn every page into a picture.
Convert & extract
Images to PDFJPG and PNG files become pages.
PDF to imagesEvery page as PNG or JPG, zipped.
Word to PDFWord files with their headings, lists, tables and pictures.
PDF to WordAn editable .docx with headings, lists, tables and pictures.
PDF to ExcelTables as real spreadsheet columns and numbers.
Extract textRead it, copy it or save it as .txt.
Extract linksEvery hyperlink in the document, as a list.
BookmarksThe document outline, with page numbers.
Add bookmarksOne bookmark per merged file, existing ones kept.
Extract imagesEvery picture inside the PDF — JPEGs untouched, repeats saved once, with a list.
Table to CSVRows and columns of text as a spreadsheet file.
Extract attachmentsFiles embedded in the PDF, as a ZIP.
Create
A complete PDF toolkit that never uploads your files
PDFWillow is a free online PDF editor that runs entirely in your web browser. Merge and split documents, compress them, rotate and reorder pages, edit the text of a PDF, add highlights, shapes, comments, links and form fields, sign with a drawn or typed signature, protect files with a password, redact personal data, and turn pictures, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-books, emails and many more file types into PDF. AI tools summarize, translate and answer questions about a document. You can even scan paper documents with your phone's camera, straighten them and clean them up like a scanner app.
Because every tool runs locally, your files are never uploaded to a server. The one exception is the AI tools, which can send a document's text to an AI service to answer — each AI tool says so. There is nothing to upload, no account to create and no file-size queue to wait for. The page keeps your last session only in this browser, so you can pick up where you left off, and you can dismiss it at any time.
Frequently asked questions
- Is PDFWillow free?
- Yes. All 198 tools are free to use without an account, without watermarks, and with as many files at once as your device's memory allows.
- Are my PDF files uploaded anywhere?
- No. The page processes your files inside your browser using JavaScript, so the files themselves are never uploaded, and most tools work offline once the page has loaded. The one exception is the AI tools: to answer, they can send the document's text to an AI service — the tool says so, and the Privacy policy says which one.
- Can I edit the text inside a PDF?
- Yes. Open a page, choose Edit text, click any paragraph and retype it. The paragraph re-wraps in the matching font, and the downloaded PDF keeps crisp, selectable text.
- Are the PDFs it makes accessible to screen readers?
- Their text stays real, selectable and searchable, but PDFs the tools create or convert aren't tagged (PDF/UA), so a screen reader can't follow their headings and reading order. If you need tagged PDFs, for example for a public body, add the tags in a tool made for that.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes. The layout adapts to phones and tablets, and the Scan tool uses your camera to photograph pages, fix their perspective and turn them into a clean PDF.
- Which file types can I turn into a PDF?
- Pictures (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, SVG, AVIF, HEIC and TIFF), Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files, OpenDocument text, spreadsheets and slides (.odt, .ods, .odp), RTF, plain text, Markdown, HTML, CSV and TSV tables, EPUB, MOBI and FB2 e-books, comic archives (.cbz), saved emails (.eml), JSON and source code, CAD drawings (.dxf), Photoshop (.psd) and Illustrator (.ai) files, XPS, Apple Pages, DICOM medical images, e-invoice XML, ZIP archives of any of these, and pages pasted from your clipboard or opened from a web address.