PDF Tools — Filecompress.app

🔒 Files never leave your device

📄 Full text extraction via PDF.js

⚡ Instant .docx download

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PDF files only — all processing happens in your browser

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ℹ️ Text and layout are extracted from the PDF. Complex formatting and images are not preserved — this is a client-side text extraction tool.

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🔒 100% client-side

📊 One sheet per PDF page

⚡ Instant .xlsx download

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Text is extracted column-by-column — works best on tables & structured PDFs

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ℹ️ Text positions are used to detect columns. Scanned PDFs (image-based) won't extract — only digitally-created PDFs work.

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🖼️ PNG or JPEG output

🔍 Up to 3× resolution scale

📦 All pages in one ZIP

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Each page is rendered to a full-resolution image

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Output format

Resolution scale

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🔗 Unlimited files

📋 Preserves page order

🔒 No upload — browser only

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Drop PDF files here

Select or drop multiple PDFs — they merge in the order listed below

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Merge order — drag files again to add more

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✂️ Split every page

📐 Extract page ranges

📦 ZIP download

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Choose how to split it below after loading

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Split mode

Page ranges

Separate multiple ranges with commas. Page numbers are 1-based.

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🗜️ 3 compression levels

🔒 100% browser-side

⚡ Instant download

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Choose a compression level below then click Compress

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Compression level

ℹ️ Medium and High modes re-render your PDF pages as compressed images. Text PDFs benefit most from Low mode; image-heavy PDFs benefit most from Medium/High.

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PDF Tools — Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you might want to know before you convert, merge or shrink a PDF.

No. The PDF tools are built on open-source libraries that run directly in your browser, so your documents are read, edited and saved on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and nothing is logged. This matters a great deal for PDFs in particular, because they so often contain private material — invoices, contracts, medical letters, bank statements. With Filecompress.app you get the convenience of an online tool without the usual privacy trade-off of handing your files to a stranger’s computer.

Open the Merge PDF tool, add the files you want to join, and arrange them in the order you would like them to appear. When you combine them, the tool stitches the pages together into a single document while keeping the original quality of each page intact. It is the quickest way to pull a cover letter, a report and an appendix into one file, or to gather several scanned pages into a single clean document ready to send.

Splitting lets you pull specific pages out of a larger document or break one big file into smaller pieces. You tell the tool which pages or ranges you want, and it produces new PDFs containing exactly those pages. This is useful when you only need to share chapter three of a long manual, or when a form is buried inside a fifty-page scan and you want just that one page on its own.

It depends heavily on what is inside the document. PDFs that are full of high-resolution scanned images can often be reduced substantially, because images are where most of the weight lives. PDFs that are mostly plain text are already quite efficient, so the savings there are smaller. The compressor aims to find a sensible balance between a lighter file and readable pages, which is usually exactly what you need to slip under an email attachment limit.

It does its best to preserve the text, layout and structure so you can edit the content in a word processor. That said, PDF and Word are fundamentally different formats — a PDF is essentially a fixed snapshot of a page, while Word is a flowing document — so very complex layouts with intricate columns, unusual fonts or heavy graphics may need a little tidying afterwards. For ordinary text documents the result is typically clean and ready to work with.

A scanned PDF is really just a picture of a page, so the words in it are not text a computer can select until they have been recognised. Straightforward digital PDFs convert smoothly, but heavily scanned or photographed documents can be hit and miss depending on the scan quality, the lighting and the handwriting. If a conversion comes out garbled, the original scan is usually the culprit rather than the tool, and a cleaner, higher-contrast scan will give a much better result.

If a PDF is locked, you will generally need to unlock it with its password before the tools can read and modify it, exactly as any PDF reader would require. This is a security feature of the format rather than a limitation of the site — it exists to stop people from editing documents they are not supposed to touch. Once you have opened the file with its password, you can save an unprotected copy and work with that.

Yes. The PDF to Image tool renders each page as a picture you can download, which is handy when you want to drop a page into a slide deck, post it on social media, or preview a document somewhere that cannot open PDFs. You can then run those images back through the image compressor if you need them to be lighter.

There is no fixed page or size limit. Because the work happens in your browser, the practical ceiling is your device’s available memory, so extremely large documents on an older phone may feel slow. On a normal computer you can comfortably merge, split and compress everyday documents without ever bumping into a wall, and you never need an account to do it.