01Organise
Merge, split, extract pages, drag to reorder, rotate, crop margins, insert blank sheets, N pages per sheet, resize to A4.
Free · MIT licence No account One HTML file
Everything you do with a PDF, without the PDF ever leaving your computer
Over 40 tools — merge, convert, sign, redact, compress, measure plans, OCR — running inside your browser. No server, no sign-up, no upload: the document opens on your machine, is processed on your machine and is saved on your machine.
0 KB sent to any server No install: double-click and go Chrome, Edge, Firefox and mobile
What is inside
Six groups of tools, one single file
Everything most people need to do with a PDF over a year, with no licence and without asking anyone's permission.
02Convert
PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images or text. And back: Word, Excel, images or text into PDF, with real margins and page breaks.
03Sign
Draw your signature, upload a photo of it or paste it with Ctrl+V, keep it in your library and drop it anywhere: cover page, last page or inside a table cell.
04Edit
Fix a line of the original text, write on top, cover or genuinely erase an area. Fill forms in and flatten them so nobody can change them.
05Protect
Real redaction of personal data, metadata cleaning, and a check of every file for active content before it opens.
06And more
OCR for scanned documents, visual version comparison, PDF/A archiving, QR codes, measuring on plans with calibration, and batch mode.
Use it on your own machine
Three steps, and it works even with no internet
There is no installer, no account, no extension to approve. It is an HTML file: your browser already knows how to open it.
STEP 01
Download the file
Press “Download for offline use”. You get one single file, PDF-Easy.html, in your downloads folder.
STEP 02
Open it with a double-click
It opens in your browser like any page. Move it to your desktop, a network folder or a USB stick: it carries everything with it.
STEP 03
Work on your PDFs
Have a connection the first time so the libraries download. After that it works offline just the same, and your files still never leave the machine.
No hand-waving
What it does well, and what it cannot do
A browser has real limits. They are written here and inside the tool itself, because knowing where the limit is is what makes the rest trustworthy.
Does it, and does it well
- ✓Merge, split and reorder with a preview of every page.
- ✓Compress scans by 40–90%, or lightly while keeping the text intact.
- ✓Sign with an image and place it precisely, even inside a table.
- ✓Redact for real: the erased area is rasterised, the data is gone.
- ✓Tables into Excel with amounts, dates and percentages as values, not text.
Does not do it, and says so
- ✗Reflowing paragraphs like Word. Editing is line by line with a background patch.
- ✗A Word file both faithful and editable. You choose: identical copy, or approximate editable text.
- ✗Qualified or smartcard signing. That belongs to the official desktop app.
- ✗Certified PDF/A conformance. It builds the right structure; formal validation is a separate step.
- ✗Word-by-word comparison. It shows where something changed, not which word.
Where it fits
It is not trying to replace everything
There are excellent PDF tools out there. The difference is what it costs to start using them, and where your document ends up.
| PDF Easy | Self-hosted (e.g. Stirling PDF) | Paid desktop (Acrobat, Foxit) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To get started | Download one file, double-click | Docker, a server, and someone to maintain it | Buy a licence and install |
| Where your document goes | Nowhere: it stays on your machine | To your server (yours, but still a server) | Stays on your machine |
| Permissions you need | None | System administrator | Software installation rights |
| Batch automation or API | Basic batches, no API | Yes — that is its strength | Yes, with actions and scripting |
| True text reflow editing | No: line by line | Limited | Yes |
| Best when… | One person needs to get something done today, on their laptop | A team processes thousands of documents with fixed rules | The document is contractual or legal and leaves no room for doubt |