Merge, split, sign, edit and convert PDF files without installing anything and without handing your documents to a server. Every tool on this site runs inside your own browser.
Your files never leave your computer — everything runs in your browser, free and without sign-up.
Most free PDF services work the same way. You upload a document, a server somewhere does the work, and you download the result. That model puts a copy of your file, whether it is a draft contract, a payslip, a passport scan or a medical report, on hardware you do not control, under a retention policy you have not read. PDFteka sidesteps the problem by never sending the file anywhere. Modern browsers can already read, rewrite and save PDF files on their own, so the entire job happens on the machine in front of you.
The practical benefits show up immediately. There is no upload wait and no download wait, so a 200-page report is handled at the speed of your processor rather than the speed of your connection. There are no queues at peak hours and no daily caps, because there is no shared server to ration. And there is nothing to delete afterwards: since the file was never copied off your device, the usual promise to remove your documents within an hour is simply unnecessary here.
The trade-off is worth stating plainly. Because the work happens locally, very large documents depend on your device's memory rather than on a data center, and an older phone will chew through a 500-page scan more slowly than a desktop will. In exchange, the file, its metadata and the record of what you did with it stay entirely with you.
The site is organized around tasks rather than features. Pick the one that matches what you actually need to get done:
The page tools all open the same editor, so a job that would normally take three separate websites takes one pass: bring in two files, drop the pages you do not want, sign the last one and save once. The converters are separate single-purpose pages that load quickly and do one thing well. When a task takes more than one tool — getting a scan under a portal’s size limit, or numbering a bundle the way a court expects — the step-by-step PDF guides walk through the whole sequence.
Legal teams and independent lawyers handle PDFs that should not be uploaded anywhere: agreements under NDA, exhibits, client identity documents. Assembling a bundle, renumbering it and adding a signature block locally removes a whole category of awkward questions from a data protection review, and it works on a train with no signal.
HR and recruiting see the same pattern from the other side. Offer letters, signed policies, ID copies and reference checks arrive as loose scans and phone photos and have to become one clean file per person. Photos turn into pages, pages get reordered, and the personal data never leaves the laptop it arrived on.
Accounting and finance work against hard deadlines and hard file size limits: invoices to merge before a submission window closes, statements to split by month, receipts photographed in a taxi. Students and researchers scan chapters, pull the twelve pages they actually need out of a 400-page reader, and turn lecture photos into something they can annotate. Anyone who has met a message saying they have used their two free tasks for today will recognize why not having a server also means not having a quota.
Yes. Every tool on the site is free to use, with no trial period, no paid tier holding back a feature and no watermark stamped on your output. There is nothing to sell because there is no server bill to cover: the work is done by your own device.
No. Your browser reads the file from your disk, changes it in memory and writes the result back to your downloads folder. Nothing is transmitted and nothing is stored, so we never see the document or even its name. You can confirm this yourself by opening your browser's network panel while a tool is running, or by disconnecting from the internet once the page has loaded and carrying on.
No. There is no sign-up, no email confirmation and no login. Open a tool and start working.
There is no limit set by us, because there is no server deciding how much you are allowed to process. The practical ceiling is your device's available memory. A current laptop handles several hundred pages comfortably; on an older phone, very large scans can be slow, and it helps to work in smaller batches.
Yes. The tools work in mobile Chrome and Safari, and you can pick files from your camera roll or your files app. Drawing a signature with a fingertip is easier than with a mouse. Very large documents are the one case where a desktop is noticeably faster.
No. The PDF you save contains your content and nothing else: no logo, no footer line, no trial notice.
No. There is no app, no plugin and no browser extension. Everything here is standard web technology that current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari already support.
Upload an image of your stamp or signature. A PNG with a transparent background works best — the stamp then sits on top of the text instead of covering it with a white box.
Save the stamp you upload to My stamps and reuse it whenever you need it.
Saved stamps are stored only in your browser (localStorage).
Nothing here yet. Build a stamp on the Builder tab, then click “Save to my stamps”.