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41 of 43 tools process your file on your device and upload nothing.Folia Tools is the online version — every tool runs inside your browser tab, free, with nothing to install. Folia PDF Studio on foliadocs.com is the desktop version: no browser size limit, batch jobs, offline AI and certificate signing.
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Organize
Arrange, split and combine pagesMerge PDF
Combine several PDFs into one
Split PDF
Break one PDF into several files
Extract pages
Pull selected pages into a new file
Delete pages
Remove the pages you don't need
Insert pages
Add pages from another document
Reorder pages
Rearrange the page order
Rotate PDF
Turn pages to the right angle
Crop PDF
Trim margins from every page
Scan to PDF
Use your phone camera as a scanner
Convert to PDF
Turn other formats into a PDFJPG to PDF
Images into a single PDF
PNG to PDF
Screenshots and transparent images into one PDF
Word to PDF
DOCX into PDF, with the styling intact
Speed depends on deviceExcel to PDF
XLSX into PDF, sheet by sheet
Speed depends on devicePowerPoint to PDF
PPTX into PDF, one slide per page
Better on CloudHTML to PDF
Turn a web page into a PDF
Better on CloudConvert from PDF
Move a PDF into another formatPDF to Word
An editable .docx document
Speed depends on devicePDF to Excel
Tables into .xlsx spreadsheets
Speed depends on devicePDF to PowerPoint
Slides as a .pptx deck
Speed depends on devicePDF to JPG
Export every page as an image
Speed depends on devicePDF to PNG
Every page as a lossless image
Speed depends on devicePDF to PDF/A
The archiving standard (ISO)
PDF to Markdown
Clean .md for notes and LLMs
PDF to Text
Plain .txt with no formatting at all
Edit
Change content and add markupsOptimize
Shrink, clean and read your documentsSecurity
Protect, sign and lock down filesRead & analyze
Beta Understand what is in a document — these are the newest tools here and still need workHow PDFs actually work
The tool pages say which button to press. These explain what the format is doing underneath — usually what you need when the button did not produce what you expected.
Why your PDF is so large, and why compressing it sometimes does nothing
What actually takes up space inside a PDF, why a 40 MB report can refuse to shrink, and when compression is the wrong answer entirely.
Why black boxes do not redact, and what actually removes text from a PDF
Drawing a black rectangle over a name leaves the name in the file. Here is why, how real redaction works, and how to check your own before you send it.
PDF passwords explained: two passwords, one real lock, and a lot of advisory flags
Why some PDF passwords stop nothing, why a 1.4 file gets weaker encryption, and where in your workflow encryption actually belongs.
What OCR can and cannot read, and what a searchable PDF is actually made of
How optical character recognition turns a scan into searchable text, what resolution and skew do to accuracy, and when running OCR makes a file worse.
What PDF to Word conversion really does, and why the result is never a perfect copy
A PDF has no paragraphs, headings or tables — only positioned glyphs. Here is how a converter infers them, and where the inference goes wrong.
Why text copied out of a PDF comes out as gibberish
Ligatures, missing spaces, and whole pages of nonsense characters all come from the same place: a PDF stores glyphs, not letters.
Are online PDF tools safe? What actually happens to your file in the browser
Browser-based PDF tools never send your document anywhere. Here is the mechanism, how to verify it yourself, and what the real limits are.
PDF forms explained: why filled forms lose their values, and what flattening really does
How interactive PDF forms are built, why merging or repairing a filled form breaks it, and when to flatten rather than send the form itself.
Need it faster, or bigger than your browser can manage?
The free tools stay free, and they always will. When a file is bigger than a browser tab can hold, Folia for Desktop runs the same engine with no size limit — and still never uploads anything. A separate app, and nothing to pay to try it.