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Crush File Size

Converts text to images to aggressively reduce file size. Great for e-filing limits.

How it works: Each page is rendered as a JPEG image and stitched back into a new PDF. This works well for scanned or image-heavy files. Simple text-only PDFs are already very compact, so this process may produce a larger file — in that case, keep your original.

Bates Label

Stamp Bates numbers onto every page. Multiple PDFs are numbered continuously and download as a ZIP.

Sign Document

Add your signature and a date stamp to any page. Drag to position; grab the corner handle to resize.

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Flatten PDF

Strip every hyperlink, annotation, OCR layer, embedded JavaScript, and attachment by rasterizing each page. Filled-in form values are preserved — they get baked into the page first, so the output looks exactly like the document would if you printed it and scanned it back in. Drop one PDF or many; bulk runs produce a ZIP. Output is purely visual.

PDF to Print (8.5×11)

Normalize wonky page sizes to standard US Letter — same as Cmd+P → Save as PDF, but built into the workflow. Drop one or more PDFs; each is fit-to-page with margins, no print dialog required.

Redact PDF

Drag a box anywhere on the page to mark redactions. Pick a reason first (Privilege, Attorney-Client, etc.) and every box you draw gets that reason burned in as a label. Switch reasons anytime — each new box uses the currently-selected reason. On apply, redacted pages are rasterized and the marked areas are painted opaque black before embedding, so the underlying text, vectors, and images are physically destroyed in the output, not just covered.

Split PDF

Pick a color, paint pages with it, name the group. Each color group exports as its own PDF. Add as many colors as you have splits. Pages not assigned to any color stay out of the output. Shift-click a thumbnail to paint a range from your last click to it.

Watermark PDF

Stamp every page with custom text. Tune font, size, color, opacity, rotation, and position. Live preview shows your watermark on the first page of the first PDF. Drop one or many; outputs a ZIP when multiple. Output keeps the original PDF's quality.

Markup PDF

Add highlights and comments to any page. Drag to draw a yellow highlight, or click Add Comment then click on the page to drop a sticky note. Drag any markup to reposition; double-click a comment to edit.

Convert to PDF

Drop JPGs, PNGs, HEICs, or PDFs. Reorder via drag. Export each as its own PDF, or combine into a single file. Optional: force every output page to US Letter so the result looks like you hit Cmd+P → Save as PDF.

Word (.docx) is not currently supported. We'd like to add it, but Microsoft Word's layout engine is proprietary and the open-source replacements drift far enough from real Word output that the conversion can't be trusted for legal use. The most reliable route is to open the file in Word and use its own File → Save As → PDF. We'll revisit when a faithful local renderer becomes practical. PDFs pass through (rasterized to letter only if you toggle that). HEIC needs a one-time ~7 MB decoder load on first use.

Explore Metadata

Inspect every metadata field embedded in a file: EXIF, XMP, PDF info dict, Office document properties. Copy as plain text for pasting into an LLM, or download as structured JSON for programmatic context.

Scrub Metadata

Remove every author, location, device, software, comment, and revision history field embedded in a file. PDFs lose their info dictionary and XMP stream (the Producer field will show pdf-lib as a processing artifact, but all original identifying values are gone). Images are re-encoded without EXIF/IPTC. Office docs get their core/app properties replaced with blanks.

Reorder Pages

Drag any page thumbnail to a new position. The output PDF preserves all original page content (vectors, fonts, text) — only the page order changes.

Add Exhibit Cover Pages

Drop one or more PDFs. Each gets an exhibit cover page (default 72pt Times Bold underlined ALL CAPS “EXHIBIT A”) prepended. Drag to reorder; letters auto-renumber. Add an optional description for each. Export combined or as separate files (each prefixed with its exhibit letter).

Exhibit Stamp

Apply a classic exhibit sticker to one or many PDFs. Each file gets the next letter (A, B, C…) automatically. Choose the designation (Plaintiff's, Defendant's, State's, etc.), stamp every page or only page 1, optionally include the page number, and pick the color. Default is the standard yellow box with black border.

OCR PDF

Turn a scanned or image-only PDF into a searchable PDF with selectable text behind every word. Powered by Tesseract.js (open-source). Recognition runs entirely in your browser — pages never leave your device.

Photo → Clean Scan

Turn a phone photo of a paper document into a crisp, flatbed-style PDF. Drag the four corners onto the edges of the page to straighten out the angle, choose a paper size, then flatten shadows and crank the contrast so it reads like a real scan. The image never leaves your device.

ID Card → Clean Scan

Clean up a phone photo of an ID — even one held in someone's hand. Drag the four corners onto the card, straighten the angle, and it's dropped onto a crisp white US-Letter page at true Texas ID (ID-1) proportions, in full color, like a flatbed scan. Everything outside the card becomes clean white background. The image never leaves your device.

Digital → Paper

Run it in reverse: take a clean, born-digital PDF and make it look like it was printed and run through a scanner — a touch of skew, lifted blacks and faded whites, paper tint, sensor grain, dust speckles, edge shadows and JPEG softness. Each page gets its own random imperfections, so a multi-page file looks naturally scanned rather than copy-pasted. Pick a preset, dial the intensity, and hit Randomize until it feels right.

Remove Objects

Surgically strip watermarks and prior Bates labels out of the PDF's underlying content stream — the targeted text objects are deleted, not painted over. Drop one PDF or a batch; rotated text and common watermark words are auto-flagged. Click any item to mark/un-mark it — with propagation on, the click is applied to every other page and every other uploaded PDF that has a matching item, so you can identify a stamp on one document and bulk-remove it from the rest. If we can't isolate a marked object cleanly (rare — usually because it's stamped into a scanned image), we fall back to rasterizing the page and painting the target out.