PDF Tools

Why browser-based PDF tools (and when we make exceptions)

Most online PDF utilities — even the well-known names — work the same way: you upload your file, a server processes it, then you download the result. That round trip is convenient, but it means a copy of your document sits on someone else's machine. For contracts, signed forms, personal records, or anything sensitive, that's a real privacy cost.

For the ten tools at the top of this page, Converter.Plus runs every operation in your browser. The JavaScript libraries pdf-lib and pdfjs-dist load when you visit the page, your file is read into memory using the standard browser File API, and the result is built locally — then offered to you as a download. There is no upload step.

The two tools in the “Server-side conversions” section — PDF to Word and Word to PDF — work differently because there is no browser-only Word renderer good enough to trust with real documents. Those two tools upload your file to our API server, forward it to CloudConvert for processing, and then delete it as soon as you download the result. Each page is clearly labelled with a server-processing badge so you know which mode you're in before you upload.

What's included

• Compress PDF — strip metadata for lossless cleanup, or rasterize image-heavy PDFs for big size wins.
• Merge PDF — combine multiple files in any order into a single document.
• Split PDF — break one PDF into many by page range, every N pages, or one PDF per page.
• Reorder Pages — drag thumbnails to put pages in any sequence.
• Rotate Pages — fix sideways scans with a single click per page (or all at once).
• Extract Pages — pull specific pages into a new file, leaving the rest behind.
• Edit & Sign PDF — drop in text fields and a hand-drawn signature, then flatten on export.
• PDF to JPG — render every page of a PDF into a high-quality JPEG image with adjustable DPI.
• JPG to PDF — combine JPG and PNG photos into a single PDF, with reorder and page-size controls.
• Excel to PDF — turn .xlsx, .xls, and .csv spreadsheets into clean, paged PDFs.
• PDF to Word (server-side) — convert PDFs to editable .docx documents, with OCR fallback for scanned pages.
• Word to PDF (server-side) — convert .docx and .doc files to a polished PDF with fonts and layout preserved.

How to verify nothing is uploaded (browser-side tools)

For the ten browser-side tools, open your browser's DevTools, switch to the Network tab, then load the tool and run a job. You'll see the page assets load, but no request body containing your file. The privacy badge at the top of those tool pages links to a deeper explanation in our privacy-by-architecture writeup. The PDF↔Word tools, by design, do show an outbound upload — that's expected and disclosed before you choose a file.