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Merge, split, compress and reorganise documents.

Compress PDFLightens scans while keeping the text searchable.Protect PDFAdd a password, or remove it if you know it.Merge PDFsSeveral PDFs into one document, in the order you choose.PDF to imagesEvery page becomes a JPG or PNG, at the resolution you choose.Split PDFOne page per file, by ranges, or in blocks.Organise PDF pagesRotate, delete and reorder pages on a grid.Redact PDFGenuinely hides part of a PDF: the page is redrawn, and no text is left underneath the black.Fill in a PDF formbetaFills a PDF form’s fields and tells you what it wrote, what was locked and what was not.Crop PDFRemoves the white margins, by itself or with the measurements you choose.Lock a PDF formbetaFreezes a form’s values: they stay visible, but nobody can change them.Sign a PDF by handDraw your signature and place it on the document. This is not a digital signature.Pages per sheetPuts 2, 4, 6 or 9 pages on a single sheet, or lays them out as a booklet.Images to PDFSeveral photos or scans in one PDF, one per page.Watermark PDFOverlay a word like “DRAFT” or “CONFIDENTIAL” on every page.Page numbers on PDFNumber the pages of a PDF, choosing position, format and where to start.Remove PDF metadataAuthor, dates, originating software and the XMP block.

The order things go in

This is the largest section of the site, and the only one where the sequence genuinely matters. Two rules apply to every page below.

  • The password goes last. No other tool can open a protected PDF: if you protect it and then notice a page is missing, you have to remove the password before you can touch it again.
  • Metadata comes off at the end. Every step that rewrites the document can put the software name and the dates back in. If the file has to leave clean, Remove PDF metadata is the last thing you do before handing it over.

On size: Compress PDF does a lot to a scan, where the weight is the images, and much less to a text-only document, where there is barely anything to reclaim. If the PDF only has to be read and not printed, shrinking the images before putting them in usually wins.

On what cannot be undone: Redact PDF really does remove the text from under the black, but the pages it touches become images and stop being selectable and searchable — only those pages. And Merge, Split and Organise pages always produce a new file: the original stays where it is, and it is the thing to keep until you have opened and checked the result.