Free online PDF tools

Fast PDF tools for everyday document tasks.

PDF Help is a fast, free and privacy-conscious PDF toolkit for merging, splitting, compressing, converting and extracting content from PDFs.

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Tool pages connect to the FastAPI service at api.pdf-helper.net. Files are temporary and result links expire.

All core PDF functions, grouped for SEO and usability.

The registry maps every tool to English and German routes plus an API endpoint.

Merge PDF

Combine multiple PDFs into one clean document in the order you choose.

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Split PDF

Split a PDF into single pages or extract custom page ranges.

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Compress PDF

Reduce PDF file size with light, recommended or strong compression modes.

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Edit PDF Text

Add text to a PDF page with a precise server-side overlay. Existing PDF text is not destructively rewritten.

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Rotate PDF

Rotate all pages or selected pages by 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

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Delete PDF Pages

Remove unwanted pages before downloading a new PDF.

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Reorder PDF Pages

Rearrange pages and export a new PDF.

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Extract PDF Pages

Save selected pages or page ranges as a new PDF.

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Add Page Numbers

Add page numbers with custom position, start number and text style.

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Watermark PDF

Add text watermarks with opacity, rotation and selected page controls.

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Protect PDF

Encrypt a PDF with a password. Permission flags are not described as DRM.

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Unlock PDF

Unlock only with a known password or removable restrictions.

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Repair PDF

Rewrite damaged PDFs through a safe repair pipeline.

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OCR PDF

Make scanned PDFs searchable with English and German OCR.

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Redact PDF

Planned true redaction that removes underlying content, not just visual overlays.

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PDF to JPG

Export selected PDF pages as JPG images.

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JPG to PDF

Turn one or multiple JPG images into a PDF.

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PDF to PNG

Export crisp PNG files from PDF pages.

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PDF to Text

Extract readable text from digital PDFs.

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PDF to CSV

Extract table-like data from PDFs into CSV files.

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Extract Tables

Detect multiple tables and download CSV output.

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Remove Metadata

Remove author, title, creator and timestamp metadata where possible.

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Flatten PDF

Flatten form fields, annotations and overlays.

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Compare PDF

Compare text, metadata and pages between two PDFs.

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