Every tool. Two modes.
One browser tab.
This is the whole product, listed rather than described. Every tool below is generated from the catalogue the app itself loads, and every Free or Lifetime badge from the entitlement set that actually enforces it — so what you read here is what you get when you open it.
One document by hand, or the same steps across a folder.
Open and edit one document.
A file, a tool rail, and the page in front of you. Pick a tool, see what it did, undo it if it was wrong. Recent documents and their edits are kept in the browser's own storage on your device, so closing the tab does not lose the work.
Every tool page on this site is a front door to the same workspace: the page explains the tool, and opening a file hands it to the panel that does the work.
Build and run a reusable pipeline.
Chain verified tool steps — OCR, sanitize, Bates, watermark, protect, eligible redaction steps — into a pipeline, save it, and run it again. A saved pipeline is multi-document by nature, which is why it has a page of its own rather than a panel: bookmarkable, refresh-safe, and pointed at a whole folder rather than one file.
Start from a template, one of your saved workflows, or blank. The gallery is browsable on any plan; saving and running a workflow is part of the licence.
Grouped the way the rail groups them.
The headings and the order below are the workspace's own, and each description is the same sentence the in-app assistant gives when you ask what a tool does. Nothing here is written for this page.
Review
8Lists every highlight and note on the document, with comments and replies.
Keyword search across the open PDF, ranked by relevance with page jumps.
Edits the PDF outline / bookmarks and internal links.
Highlights differences between two PDF versions side-by-side.
Inserts a printable, clickable contents page at the front, built from the document's own headings.
Measures size, page count, page sizes and text layer against limits you set, before you upload.
Stamps APPROVED, REJECTED, DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL on chosen pages, with the date and your initials.
Lists every annotation and comment as Markdown, CSV or plain text. Reads only — the PDF is untouched.
Organize pages
13Reorders, deletes, rotates, or manages pages visually.
Combine multiple PDFs into one document.
Breaks a PDF into smaller files; manual split modes are free and smart split is Pro.
Exports selected pages into a new standalone PDF.
Rotates specific pages or the whole document in 90° steps.
Trims page margins or crops to a custom rectangle.
Adds a blank page, or pages from another PDF, at any position.
Removes the pages you select and keeps the rest.
Scales pages to a different paper size, such as Letter or A4.
Turns a document end for end, or reverses one range of pages while the rest stay put.
Finds repeated pages by content, text and appearance, and lets you review every one before any is removed.
Renames many files at once by pattern, with the order you choose and every collision found first.
Measures the tilt on scanned pages and straightens them. Refuses pages that have a text layer.
Edit & sign
8Replaces a line of existing text in place, matching the original font.
Adds signatures, initials, and form text.
Places text, date, checkbox, dropdown and radio fields on a flat PDF. Placing by hand is free.
Reads a form’s answers out to FDF or CSV, and fills them back in after a field-by-field review.
A floating note on a plate, with a leader line you drag to whatever the note is about.
Places a visible watermark such as CONFIDENTIAL or DRAFT across pages.
Finds a repeating watermark and strips it from the pages.
Fill one form with spreadsheet data to create many documents.
Convert & compress
5Adds a text layer to scanned pages on-device.
Converts the PDF into supported output formats.
Converts images to a PDF or a PDF's pages to images.
Reduces PDF file size by re-encoding images and cleaning up unused objects.
Saves a document's text as a .txt file, with the page's own line breaks or reflowed paragraphs.
Protect
4Encrypts the exported PDF with a password.
Removes password protection when you have the password/permission.
Attempts to rebuild a damaged PDF into a usable copy.
Tags the structure of content created in this app, and carries your alt text for inserted images.
Legal
12Marks and burns redactions into an exported copy with verification.
Removes metadata, hidden content, comments, and other risky extras before sharing.
Flags possible attorney-client, work-product, and confidentiality indicators for review.
Searches and answers questions using on-device MiniLM embeddings so the document stays in this browser.
Computes a file hash for verification and chain-of-custody records.
Flattens the signed document and issues a certificate recording its SHA-256 fingerprint.
Adds legal production identifiers with prefix, numbering, and placement controls.
Assembles multiple PDFs into a court-ready exhibit binder with tabs and index.
Detects legal citations and prepares a Table of Authorities with internal page-jump links.
Finds US legal citations and adds clickable public lookup links after review.
Runs a pre-flight filing check for size, font embedding, hidden content, and metadata risks.
Builds reusable PDF processing pipelines from existing verified tools.
AI
3Q&A and summaries grounded in the open document, written by your own AI: your OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, or Ollama / LM Studio.
Draft a document on the open page, or rewrite one section of an existing AI draft, streamed live in the inspector.
Translate the open PDF with your own AI: the same pages in another language, or a Word or text file.
31 free tools, 22 in the licence, one price.
3 downloads a day, with a small PDFMacro line on each page of a saved PDF. No ads.
One payment covers Workspace and Workflows together — every tool and every automation, with no line and no daily limit. AI and translation run on your own key or local model. No subscription, and no AI add-on from us.
A badge above describes the whole tool. Separately from that, these named capabilities carry their own gate — which is why marking and burning redaction boxes is free while the verification certificate is not, and why extracting pages is free while pulling a table out of them is not:
In the tab, on your CPU.
PDFMacro is a static site. There is no upload endpoint, no processing queue and no conversion API behind any of the tools listed above — the server sends HTML, JavaScript and WebAssembly, and your machine does the work. Once the app has loaded it keeps working with the network off.
That is the short version. The long one — what is stored where, what the service worker caches, and how to check any of it in DevTools — is a page of its own.
There is no /upload, /process or /convert route. The application is served as static assets and executed in the browser sandbox.
Sensitive-data detection and semantic search run neural models inside this tab. The weights download once and are cached; inference never touches the network.
Recent documents, annotation sidecars and uploaded fonts live in the browser's IndexedDB on your device, subject to the browser's normal security model.
Questions about the platform.
How many tools does PDFMacro include?
What is the difference between Workspace and Workflows?
Which tools are free?
Is Workflows a separate purchase?
Do any of these tools upload my file?
Do I need an account to use the free tools?
31 of them are free right now.
A free account, and your file never uploaded. Open the workspace and drop a file in.