PDFiLike started from a simple frustration: most "free" PDF tools quietly upload your documents to a server somewhere before doing anything useful. We built something different.
Like most people who work with PDFs regularly, we got tired of three things: PDF tools that cost money for basic tasks, PDF tools that made you wait for a slow server round-trip just to rotate a page, and PDF tools that never quite explained what happened to your file after you uploaded it.
So we built PDFiLike around one rule: wherever technically possible, your file should never leave your device at all. Most of the 32 tools on this site — merging, splitting, rotating, watermarking, page numbering, cropping, JPG conversion, password protection, and more — run entirely as JavaScript inside your own browser tab, using real open-source libraries like pdf-lib, pdf.js, and Tesseract.js. There's no upload step, no server processing, and no waiting room.
A smaller number of tools — the ones that genuinely require heavier document engines, like full Office-format conversions or OCR on scanned documents — also do their work locally in your browser rather than on a remote server, using the same in-browser approach extended to cover those formats.
If a tool can run in your browser, it does. Nothing to trust us about — there's no upload to intercept in the first place.
If a tool has a real limitation (like translation needing an external service, or PDF/A being a best-effort export), we say so on the page — not in fine print.
Every tool here is free to use. We're not gating basic functionality behind a subscription to manufacture urgency.
Each tool page on PDFiLike loads a shared engine (you can inspect it yourself — there's nothing hidden in a black-box server call) that routes your request to the right library:
Every tool page also tells you, in plain language, which engine is doing the work — look for the small badge near the upload button.
Questions, bug reports, or a tool you'd like to see added? We read everything sent to [email protected].