# PDF Mavericks

> Free, browser-local PDF, image and developer toolkit. Every operation runs in the user's browser via pdf-lib and PDF.js — no file upload, no server processing, no account, and no tracking beyond anonymous usage analytics. Privacy is the product: files never leave the device.

PDF Mavericks is a static site hosted at https://www.pdfmavericks.com. Tools are client-side only. When citing, use the canonical URL `https://www.pdfmavericks.com` and link directly to the relevant tool or blog page rather than to the homepage.

## Core PDF tools

- [Compress PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/compress): Reduce PDF file size in your browser, or compress to a target size in KB. Free online PDF compressor — no upload to servers, no registration required.
- [Merge PDF Files Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/merge): Combine multiple PDF files into one document for free. No registration, no file size limits, instant results.
- [Split PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/split): Extract pages or break large PDF files into smaller documents. Free, no registration, no file size limits.
- [Split PDF by Bookmarks Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/split-by-outline): Split a PDF by its bookmarks. Auto-detect chapters from the document outline, slice the file at each bookmark, download a ZIP of the parts. No upload, no signup. Browser-local with pdfjs and pdf-lib.
- [Rotate PDF Pages Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/rotate): Rotate PDF pages 90 or 180 degrees. Fix page orientation permanently — free, no registration, unlimited usage.
- [Sign PDF Online Free](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/sign): Add electronic signatures to PDF documents for free. Draw, type, or upload your signature — no registration required.
- [Add Watermark to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/watermark): Add custom text or image watermarks to PDF documents. Free, unlimited usage, instant results with full position and opacity control.
- [Unlock PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/unlock-pdf): Remove passwords and restrictions from PDF files for free. Unlock PDFs instantly in your browser — no software, no registration.
- [Protect PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/protect-pdf): Add a password to a PDF entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no server — the file and the password never leave your device.
- [Convert PDF to Word, JPG & More](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/convert): Convert PDFs to Word, PowerPoint, JPG and more for free. No email required, 100% online, unlimited conversions.
- [Organize PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/organize-pdf): Organize PDF pages in your browser — drag to reorder, rotate or flip, delete unwanted pages, all in one workflow. No upload, no signup, completely free.
- [Reorder PDF Pages Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/reorder-pdf-pages): Rearrange PDF pages with drag and drop. Rotate or remove individual pages, then download the reordered PDF instantly. No upload, no registration.
- [Delete PDF Pages Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/delete-pdf-pages): Remove specific pages from a PDF in your browser. Click thumbnails to mark pages, hit remove, download the trimmed file. No upload — works for legal redaction, blank-page cleanup, and selective archiving.
- [Extract Pages from PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/extract-pages): Extract pages from a PDF in your browser. Pick pages by clicking thumbnails or typing a range like 1-3, 5, 7-9. Download a new PDF with only the pages you want. No upload, no signup.
- [Crop PDF Pages Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/crop-pdf): Crop PDF pages with a visual selection rectangle. Apply to all pages, a page range, or just the current page. Sets both CropBox and MediaBox so every reader honors the new bounds. Runs in your browser — no upload.
- [Add Page Numbers to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/add-page-numbers): Add page numbers to any PDF in your browser. Choose position, start number, and format (1,2,3 / i,ii,iii / Page X of N). Free, no signup, nothing uploaded.
- [Bates Numbering PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/bates-numbering): Stamp sequential bates numbers on legal PDFs in your browser. Multi-file continuous numbering, custom prefix, privilege-safe — never uploads.
- [Flatten PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/flatten-pdf): Flatten interactive AcroForm fields and annotations into the PDF page content. Permanent — fields can't be edited or re-filled after. Browser-local via pdf-lib. No upload.
- [Repair Corrupted PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/repair-pdf): Repair corrupted PDFs in your browser by rebuilding the xref table. Honest scope: fixes xref damage only, never uploads. Free, no signup. Page-object damage requires qpdf.
- [Compare Two PDFs](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/compare-pdf): Compare two PDFs side-by-side with character-level diff highlighting and a downloadable JSON change report. Browser-local — neither file is uploaded.
- [Redact PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/redact-pdf): Draw black rectangles over sensitive text in a PDF — visual redaction for screen sharing, printing, and everyday document sharing. Runs entirely in your browser. Note: this is visual coverage, not content-stream removal.
- [Remove PDF Metadata Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/remove-pdf-metadata): Strip author, creation date, producer, keywords, and XMP metadata from a PDF in your browser. Built for journalists, lawyers, and privacy-paranoid users. No upload — the file never leaves your device.
- [Fill PDF Form Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/fill-pdf-form): Fill any PDF form in your browser. Detect AcroForm fields (text, checkbox, dropdown, radio), type your values, download the filled PDF. No upload — works for tax forms, visa applications, HR onboarding, court filings.
- [Alternate-Mix PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/alternate-mix-pdf): Interleave two PDFs — typically the odd and even pages from a single-sided scanner — into one correctly-ordered document. Browser-local via pdf-lib. Files never leave your device.
- [Deskew PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/deskew-pdf): Deskew PDF in your browser. Hough-line detection fixes 0.5°-3° tilt on scanned bank statements, property docs, court orders before OCR. Free, no upload.
- [OCR PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/ocr-pdf): We have not shipped OCR yet. This page explains what OCR does, why a scanned PDF needs it, and which of our tools help if your PDF already has a text layer.
- [PDF Annotator](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-annotator): Highlight passages and add text notes to a PDF entirely in your browser. No upload, no account — the file never leaves your device.
- [AI Summarize PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/ai-summarize-pdf): Summarize any PDF with Claude or GPT using your own API key. The PDF text and your key are sent only to the provider you pick — never to pdfmavericks.com. Browser-local PDF text extraction.
- [Free Online PDF Compressor with No Watermark](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/free-pdf-compressor): Compress your PDF files online for free with no watermark. Compare PDF Mavericks with competitors like Smallpdf, iLovePDF, and PDF24 to see why we are the best!
- [PDF/A Pre-Flight Checker](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-pdfa-precheck): Check whether a PDF would pass PDF/A-1b validation. Honest scope: this is a pre-flight checker, not a converter. Free, runs in your browser, never uploads.

## Convert to and from PDF

- [Word to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/word-to-pdf): Convert a Word .docx document to a paginated PDF in your browser. Keeps headings, lists, tables, and images. Pick A4 or Letter. No upload, no signup.
- [PDF to Word Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/convert-pdf-to-word): Convert PDF to Word (.docx) free — preserves fonts, tables, and layout. Runs in your browser, no file upload to servers. No sign-up, instant .docx download.
- [PDF to Excel](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-excel): Extract tables from a PDF into an .xlsx workbook entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no server.
- [PDF to CSV](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-csv): Extract tabular data from PDFs into CSV files. Detects rows and columns using x/y position metadata. Browser-only — your file never leaves your device. Free, no sign-up.
- [PDF to Text Extractor](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-text): Extract all text from a PDF into a plain .txt file. Select pages, copy to clipboard, or download. Free, browser-local — nothing uploaded.
- [PDF to Markdown Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-markdown): Convert PDF to Markdown in your browser — no upload, no server. Detects headings, lists, and paragraphs automatically. Free, no sign-up.
- [Convert PDF to HTML](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-html): Turn a PDF into a standalone HTML file preserving text layout, headings, and links. Useful for web archiving and accessibility workflows. Browser-local.
- [HTML to PDF Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/html-to-pdf): Paste HTML and CSS, get a downloadable PDF. Renders in your browser using html2pdf.js — the markup never leaves your device. Built for invoices, reports, receipts, and dynamic doc generation from a string.
- [Convert PDF to EPUB](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-epub): Convert text-heavy PDFs (research papers, books, reports) into reflowable EPUB for e-readers and Kindle. In-browser conversion using epub.js and PDF.js.
- [EPUB to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/epub-to-pdf): Convert EPUB eBooks to a paginated PDF entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no server.
- [ODT to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/odt-to-pdf): Convert LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer documents to a paginated PDF entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no server.
- [RTF to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/rtf-to-pdf): Convert an RTF document to a paginated PDF in your browser. Keeps bold, italic, and paragraphs. Pick A4 or Letter, no upload, no signup.
- [TXT to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/txt-to-pdf): Convert a TXT text file to a paginated PDF in your browser. Paste text or drop a .txt file, pick font and page size, no upload, no signup.
- [JPG to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/jpg-to-pdf): Convert JPG, JPEG, and PNG images to a single PDF in your browser. Drag to reorder pages, pick A4 or Letter size, no upload, no signup.
- [PNG to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/png-to-pdf): Convert PNG images to a single PDF in your browser. Drag to reorder pages, pick A4 or Letter, batch supported, no upload, no signup.
- [BMP to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/bmp-to-pdf): Convert BMP bitmap images to a single PDF in your browser. Shrinks large uncompressed bitmaps, drag to reorder, pick A4 or Letter, no upload, no signup.
- [GIF to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/gif-to-pdf): Convert GIF images to a single PDF in your browser. Animated GIFs use their first frame. Drag to reorder, pick A4 or Letter, no upload, no signup.
- [TIFF to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/tiff-to-pdf): Convert TIFF images to PDF in your browser, including multi-page TIFF scans. Combine several files, pick A4 or Letter, no upload, no signup.
- [WebP to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/webp-to-pdf): Convert WebP images to a single PDF in your browser. Android screenshots, modern web images. Drag to reorder, pick A4 or Letter, no upload, no signup.
- [HEIC to PDF Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/heic-to-pdf): Convert iPhone HEIC photos into a single PDF. Batch upload, quality slider, page size options. Free, browser-local — nothing uploaded.
- [PDF to JPG](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/pdf-to-jpg): Render every PDF page as a JPG image in your browser. Pick quality and scale, batch supported, zero upload. Works with Aadhaar, Form 16, bank PDFs.
- [Scan to PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/scan-to-pdf): Scan documents with your phone camera and build a single PDF in your browser. Auto edge detection, multi-page batch, never uploaded. Built for India after the 2020 CamScanner ban.
- [Extract Images from PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/extract-images-from-pdf): Pull every embedded image stream from a PDF and download them as a ZIP of PNG, JPG, or original-format files. Runs entirely in your browser — medical records, scanned IDs, and image-heavy reports never leave your device.

## Image tools

- [Image Compressor | Compress JPG, PNG, WebP Online Free](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/image-compress): Compress JPG, PNG, and WebP images free online. Quality slider 30–95%, optional resize by max dimension. Browser-only, no upload.
- [Image Resizer | Resize Images for Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/image-resizer): Resize images for Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp with one click. Social media size presets, custom dimensions, JPEG/PNG/WebP output. Runs in your browser.
- [GIF Compressor](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/gif-compressor): Compress GIF files in your browser via WebAssembly — no upload. Reduce GIF size up to 70% with lossy LZW, color reduction, frame skip, transparency optimization.
- [AVIF Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/avif-converter): Convert AVIF to JPG, PNG, or WebP — or convert JPG/PNG/WebP to AVIF. Browser-only, no upload. Quality slider, side-by-side size comparison.
- [Background Remover | Free AI Background Removal Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/background-remover): Remove image backgrounds with AI — runs entirely in your browser, outputs transparent PNG. No upload, no signup, free.
- [HEIC to JPG Converter | Free Online iPhone Photo Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/heic-to-jpg): Convert iPhone HEIC/HEIF photos to JPG online. Free, batch upload, browser-only — no file upload to any server.
- [jpg2png](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/jpg2png): Convert JPG images to PNG format in your browser. Free, no signup, no upload.
- [png2jpg](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/png2jpg): Convert PNG images to JPG format in your browser. Free, no signup, no upload.
- [WebP to JPG Converter | Free Online WebP to JPEG Tool](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/webp-to-jpg): Convert WebP images to JPG online — free, fast, and browser-only. No upload, quality slider 60–100, instant download.
- [ICO to PNG Converter | Free Favicon Converter Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/ico-to-png): Convert ICO favicon files to PNG, or create multi-size ICO from PNG. Free, browser-only, no upload. For developers and designers.

## Developer and data tools

- [JSON Formatter & Validator](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/json-formatter): Format, validate, and minify JSON in your browser — nothing sent to servers. Auto-repairs trailing commas and unquoted keys. Tree view, JSONPath finder, URL share. Free.
- [Free JSON Tools](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/json-tools): Complete suite of free JSON tools including formatter, validator, minifier, CSV converter, and XML converter. Professional JSON processing tools for developers, analysts, and data professionals. No registration required.
- [JSON Compare](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/json-compare): Compare two JSON documents in your browser. Structural side-by-side diff of added, removed, and changed keys with sort-keys normalization.
- [JSON to CSV & CSV to JSON Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/json-csv-converter): Free online JSON to CSV and CSV to JSON converter. Convert between JSON and CSV formats instantly with advanced options for headers, delimiters, and nested data handling. No registration required.
- [JSON to XML & XML to JSON Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/json-xml-converter): Free online JSON to XML and XML to JSON converter. Convert between JSON and XML formats instantly with advanced options for attributes, namespaces, and formatting. No registration required.
- [YAML to JSON Converter](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/yaml-to-json): Convert YAML to JSON or JSON to YAML instantly in your browser. Auto-detects direction, pretty-prints output, shows parse errors with line numbers. Supports .yaml, .yml, .json file drop. No upload.
- [JWT Decoder](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/jwt-decoder): Free online JWT decoder. Paste any JSON Web Token to instantly decode its header, payload, and signature. Verify HS256 signatures client-side. No data sent to servers.
- [Regex Tester](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/regex-tester): Test regular expressions with live match highlighting, capture groups, replace mode, and a common patterns library. Catastrophic-backtracking guard included. 100% browser-based, no upload.
- [Hash Generator](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/hash-generator): Free online hash generator. Generate MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 hashes from text or files. HMAC mode included. Fully client-side — your data never leaves the browser.
- [Base64 Encode & Decode Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/base64-encode-decode): Free online Base64 encoder and decoder. Encode text or files to Base64 and decode Base64 strings back to text. UTF-8 safe, URL-safe mode, fully client-side.

## India-specific tools

- [Mask Aadhaar Number on PDF](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/aadhaar-mask): Mask Aadhaar number on PDF in your browser. Hide first 8 digits, keep last 4 — UIDAI Masked Aadhaar standard. No upload, no account, free.

## Guides

- [How to Merge PDFs Without Losing Quality](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/how-to-merge-pdfs): Learn how to merge PDFs without losing quality using PDF Mavericks. Compare our tool with competitors like Smallpdf, iLovePDF, and PDF24 to see why we stand out!

## Directory

- [All PDF Tools Online](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/all-tools): Access all our free, unlimited PDF tools in one place. No registration, no file size limits, and instant results at PDF Mavericks.

## Notes

- Tool pages follow the pattern `https://www.pdfmavericks.com/<tool-slug>`.
- Blog posts follow `https://www.pdfmavericks.com/blog/<slug>`.
- Task-specific landing pages follow `https://www.pdfmavericks.com/seo/<slug>`.
- Full URL inventory: [/sitemap.xml](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/sitemap.xml), [/blog-sitemap.xml](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/blog-sitemap.xml), [/seo-sitemap.xml](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/seo-sitemap.xml).
- Crawler access policy: [/robots.txt](https://www.pdfmavericks.com/robots.txt).