Converts text to images to aggressively reduce file size. Great for e-filing limits.
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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.
Combine multiple PDFs into one. Text remains searchable. Files are processed in upload order.
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Stamp Bates numbers onto every page. Multiple PDFs are numbered continuously and download as a ZIP.
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Add your signature and a date stamp to any page. Drag to position; grab the corner handle to resize.
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Drag a stamp to move · grab the red corner handle to resize · double-click date or name text to edit · click × to remove.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Drop a PDF above to start. Drag on the page to draw a redaction. Click the big red × on a box to remove it.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Draw: drag on the page (Highlight/Box/Circle/Line/Arrow) or click for a Comment · Select: click a shape to select it (dashed blue outline) · Move: drag the body of a selected shape · Resize: drag the blue corner handle (or endpoint dots on lines) · Recolor / change thickness: use the color and thickness controls while selected · Delete: click the big red × or press Delete · Click empty space to deselect.
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.
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JPG · PNG · HEIC · PDF (click to upload)
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.
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.
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JPEG · PNG · PDF · DOC/DOCX · XLS/XLSX
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.
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JPEG · PNG · PDF · DOCX · XLSX
Drag any page thumbnail to a new position. The output PDF preserves all original page content (vectors, fonts, text) — only the page order changes.
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Drag thumbnails to reorder · original order shown beside each page · click × to remove a page from the output entirely.
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).
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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.
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Click a file in the list below to preview it. Use the arrows to flip through pages.
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