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PDF Toolkit

Merge, extract, reorder, rotate, remove, and optionally shrink PDF pages locally in one bounded workspace.

Runs locally — input is never uploaded
PDF filesUp to 10 files · 100 MiB total · 200 pages
Blank or “all” selects every retained page.

Shrink PDF (lossy) rasterises retained pages as roughly 144-DPI JPEGs at moderate quality. It can help scans, but removes searchable text, links, forms, accessibility structure, and vector sharpness.

Lossless reduction is limited. The normal rebuild uses compressed object streams without rasterising pages, but it may be the same size or larger and does not preserve every document-level feature.

Page workspaceReady when you are

Choose one or more PDFs to build a page workspace.

WHAT IT DOES

Rebuild the pages, not your trust in an upload service.

Choose one PDF or a set to merge, inspect bounded local thumbnails, select and extract ranges, reorder pages by drag or buttons, rotate them, mark pages for removal, and download a rebuilt document. The source files remain in browser memory and page rendering never enables PDF scripting or an annotation layer.

Why use it?

Use it to assemble or extract pages from PDFs when the job concerns page order and rotation rather than editing their text.

How to use this tool

  1. Load the PDFs and review their pages in the current output order.
  2. Move, rotate, or mark pages for removal. To extract a subset, select thumbnails or enter a range such as 1,3,7-10.
  3. Use Download rebuilt PDF for retained pages or Extract selected for the chosen subset, then reopen the result to check ordering.
  4. Use Shrink PDF only when rasterization is acceptable: its image-based output loses searchable text and other document features. Keep the original, especially for signed or interactive documents.

Details and limitations

  • The workspace accepts up to 10 PDFs, 50 MiB per file, 100 MiB in total, and 200 pages. Thumbnails render lazily as they approach the visible workspace rather than rasterising the whole document at full size.
  • A range such as 1,3,7-10 selects pages in the current output order. Extract selected creates one PDF, while the primary download keeps every retained page in its visible order.
  • Every page has drag ordering plus Move left and Move right buttons, so pointer dragging is never the only way to reorder. Removed pages stay visible and can be restored before export.
  • Rebuilding copies page content and rotation into a new PDF. Document-level JavaScript, launch actions, outlines, forms, signatures, attachments, metadata, tagged structure, and other catalogue features are not promised to survive.
  • The normal rebuild writes compressed PDF object streams without rasterising retained page content. That can remove some structural overhead, but it is not guaranteed to reduce file size and is not a full-fidelity lossless optimiser for every PDF feature.
  • Shrink PDF is deliberately labelled lossy: it rasterises retained pages to JPEG at roughly 144 DPI and moderate quality. This can substantially reduce image-heavy scans while keeping ordinary text clearer than a screen-resolution render, but searchable text, links, forms, accessibility structure, and vector sharpness do not survive, and already efficient PDFs may not become smaller.

COMMON QUESTIONS

PDF Toolkit questions

Can the toolkit merge several PDFs?
Yes. Choose up to ten files; their pages enter the workspace in file order and can then be rearranged individually before one rebuilt PDF is downloaded.
Does rebuilding preserve forms and digital signatures?
No guarantee is made for document-level features such as forms, signatures, outlines, attachments, JavaScript, tagged structure, or catalogue metadata. The V1 contract is page content, order, selection, and rotation.
Can it open a password-protected PDF?
No. Encrypted PDFs receive a clear local limitation message; the tool does not ask for, store, or attempt to recover a password.
How does Shrink PDF reduce the file size?
It renders each retained page locally at roughly 144 DPI and stores that page as a moderately compressed JPEG image in a new PDF. This is useful for scans and image-heavy documents, but it is lossy and removes searchable text, links, forms, tagged structure, and vector content. The tool reports when the result is not actually smaller.
Can it shrink a PDF losslessly?
Only in a limited structural sense. The normal rebuild uses compressed object streams and keeps retained page content as PDF content, but the result is not guaranteed to be smaller and document-level features are not fully preserved. Meaningful guaranteed reduction usually requires recompressing images, which is lossy.