Edit a PDF in your browser — nothing uploaded
Unlock, merge, split, rotate or strip the metadata from a PDF without handing it to a website. These tools open the document on your own machine, rewrite it there, and save it back to your disk — the file never travels to a server.
Your file never leaves your device — every PDF tool runs in your browser. 0 bytes uploaded.
What in-browser PDF editing is — and where it stops
Each tool reads your PDF with pure-JavaScript libraries — pdf-lib and qpdf-wasm — that run inside the browser tab. It parses the document into memory, makes the change you asked for, and writes a fresh PDF you download like any other file. Nothing is uploaded, which you can confirm with the Network tab open: the only bytes that move are the page and its fonts, never your document. The original on your disk is never altered — you always get a new file back.
Honesty is the point, so the limits are named up front. "Unlock" removes owner-password restrictions and decrypts a file whose open password is empty or supplied — it does not crack or guess a password you don't have. "Remove metadata" strips the standard Info dictionary and XMP block, not every conceivable trace hidden deeper in the file. And merge, split and rotate all need a readable PDF to start from: if a document is encrypted, they point you to Unlock first rather than mangling it, and if it's genuinely corrupt, they point you to repair.
When a PDF won't open at all
Sometimes a PDF isn't locked — it's broken: a download cut short, a cross-reference table knocked out, a header damaged. When a tool here can't parse the document, it says so plainly instead of producing an empty file, and it links straight to thePDF repair tool, which rebuilds the structure around the data that survived. Edit once it opens cleanly; repair first if it doesn't.
The PDF tools
Unlock PDF
Remove restrictions · decrypt
Removes owner-password permission restrictions (print, copy, edit) and decrypts a PDF when the open password is empty or one you supply. It does not crack or guess passwords — if an open password is required, it asks you for it.
Merge PDF
Combine documents
Joins several PDFs into one, in the order you set, keeping each page's content intact. Encrypted inputs are flagged rather than merged blind — unlock them first and the pages come straight in.
Split PDF
Extract page ranges
Pulls out the pages or ranges you choose into a new PDF, leaving the original untouched on your disk. Useful for sending one chapter, one invoice or one signed page instead of the whole file.
Rotate PDF
Reorient pages
Turns pages 90, 180 or 270 degrees and writes the corrected orientation into the file, so it opens the right way up everywhere — not just in the viewer that happened to auto-rotate it.
Remove PDF metadata
Strip Info dict + XMP
Strips the document Info dictionary and XMP metadata — author, title, producer, timestamps. It targets standard metadata and is honest that it can't guarantee removal of every trace buried in object streams or images.
Questions people actually ask
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. Every tool here runs entirely in your browser using pure-JS libraries (pdf-lib and qpdf-wasm). The file is read into memory on your machine, rewritten there, and saved back to your disk as an ordinary download. Open the Network tab while you work — the only bytes that move are the page and its fonts, never your document.
Does "Unlock PDF" crack the password?
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Unlock removes owner-password restrictions (the permission flags that block printing, copying or editing) and decrypts a file when the open password is empty or one you provide. If a PDF needs an open password you don't have, no tool here — or anywhere honest — can recover the contents; it will tell you plainly and offer a field to try a password you know.
Does removing metadata make the PDF truly anonymous?
It removes the standard metadata — the Info dictionary and XMP block that hold author, title, producer and timestamps. It does not claim to scrub every trace: text or identifiers embedded inside content streams, images or attachments can persist. We say so rather than overpromise a guarantee we can't keep.
A tool says my PDF is encrypted or won't open. What now?
If it's encrypted, unlock it first with the Unlock PDF tool, then merge, split, rotate or strip metadata from the decrypted copy. If it won't parse at all — a truncated download, a broken cross-reference table — it's likely damaged rather than locked, and the PDF repair tool rebuilds the structure around the data that survived.
Related tools
PDF won't open / is corrupt?
If a PDF is damaged rather than locked, thePDF repair tool rebuilds the structure around the data that survived — still entirely in your browser.
Convert a file
The file converters turn AVIF, HEIC, PSD and camera RAW into a universal JPG or PNG — same private, in-browser approach, honest about what each conversion keeps and loses.
Just want to look?
The file viewers open images without the app that made them, and the structural inspectors report exactly what's inside a ZIP, PDF or PNG — and whether it's damaged.