What it is
PDFbees is a set of free PDF tools that run inside your browser. Convert a PDF to Markdown, HTML, or images, merge and split documents, rotate and remove pages, compress a file, and build a PDF from images.
Why it runs in the browser
Most online PDF tools ask you to upload the document first. That means your file sits on someone else’s server, and you have to trust what happens to it there. Browsers can now do most of this work on their own, so PDFbees does the work on your device wherever a browser can do it. Nothing to upload, nothing to delete afterwards, and it keeps working on a slow connection.
Not every tool can work this way. A tool that needs a server for part of its work says so on its own page, before you choose a file, so you always know where your document goes.
The trade-off is honest: your device does the work, so a very large document needs memory and time, and a scanned page without a text layer cannot be converted into text without OCR, which is not included.
Who it is for
Anyone who needs a quick PDF change and does not want to hand a document to a stranger. No watermark is added to the files you download.
Feedback
If a tool gets something wrong, the feedback form on any page reaches the owner. Telling us which document broke helps more than anything else, but please do not attach anything confidential.
Contact
Write to hello@pdfbees.com. The feedback form on any page reaches the same mailbox.
Third-party licenses
PDFbees is built on open source work:
- Untitled UI Icons: MIT
- pdf.js: Apache-2.0
- @cantoo/pdf-lib: MIT
- fflate: MIT