A practical guide to merging, splitting, compressing, and converting PDFs — free and private.
PDF files are everywhere — contracts, resumes, invoices, ebooks — but working with them usually means downloading heavy desktop software or uploading sensitive documents to an unknown server. The good news is you rarely need either. Below is a practical, no-fluff guide to the PDF tasks people run into most, and the free tool to handle each one.
If you've ever needed to send someone five separate PDF pages as a single document, you need a merge tool. Our PDF Merge tool lets you pick multiple files, arrange them in order, and combine them into one document — all inside your browser, so none of your files are ever uploaded anywhere.
The opposite problem: a single large PDF where you only need pages 3 to 7. PDF Split lets you extract exactly the page range you need into a brand-new file.
Email attachments and upload forms often cap file size. PDF Compress optimizes a PDF's internal structure to reduce its size without touching the visible content.
Need to edit text that's locked inside a PDF? PDF to Word extracts the text into an editable .docx file. Going the other direction, Word to PDF turns a .docx document into a shareable, non-editable PDF.
If you need to drop a page into a slide deck or preview it as an image, PDF to JPG renders every page as a downloadable JPG.
Many PDF websites route your file through a server, which is a real privacy risk for anything containing personal or financial information. Because TickmarkTools' PDF tools run client-side, your documents never leave your device — you get the convenience of a web tool without the privacy trade-off.