Every PDF tool you will ever need, in one tab.

1. Go to the PDFDeal Editor.
2. Upload your PDF or drag and drop it into the editor.
3. Use the toolbar to add text boxes, draw signatures, or place annotations on any page.
4. Resize, reposition, and style each element using the on-canvas controls.
5. Click Download to save. The edited content is written into the PDF content stream and downloaded directly to your device.

Adobe Acrobat is a desktop application that requires installation and a subscription. PDFDeal runs entirely in the browser using JavaScript PDF libraries, so there is nothing to install and no account required. You can add text and signatures, merge, split, and compress PDFs the same way, without a subscription or watermarks.

It depends on how the tool processes the file. Most online PDF editors upload your file to a server, process it remotely, and delete it after a delay. PDFDeal works differently: your file is read into browser memory using the JavaScript File API and processed by pdf-lib running locally in your browser tab. No file bytes travel over the network. The downloaded result is generated in the same browser session, so sensitive documents such as contracts or medical records never touch an external server.

Open PDFDeal's merge tool and upload two or more PDF files. Drag them into the order you want, then click Merge. pdf-lib reads the page trees from each file and writes them into a single output PDF in your browser. The merged file downloads immediately. No files are sent to a server at any point.

Open PDFDeal's PDF to Images tool. Each page is rendered onto an HTML Canvas element using PDF.js, then exported as JPG or PNG. You can set the resolution before exporting. The reverse is also available: images are packed into a PDF using pdf-lib, which embeds each image as a page object in the output file.

PDF file size is mostly determined by embedded images and fonts. PDFDeal's compress tool re-encodes embedded images at a lower resolution and applies stream compression to reduce size. Text and vector content are preserved at full quality since they are not image-based. For scanned documents where every page is a raster image, higher compression settings will reduce visual quality, so a medium setting is recommended for most use cases.

Go to PDFDeal's sign tool. You can draw your signature with a mouse or finger, type it in a handwriting-style font, or upload an image of your signature. The signature is placed as an annotation object on the page and embedded into the PDF content stream on download. The output is a standard PDF that opens in any viewer.

Open PDFDeal's protect tool, upload your PDF, and set a password. pdf-lib applies AES-256 encryption to the PDF byte stream in your browser before the file is downloaded. The password is required to open the file in any PDF viewer. You can also set separate owner and user passwords to restrict printing or copying independently of opening.

Yes. Because all processing runs in the browser, PDFDeal continues to work after the page has loaded even if your internet connection drops. PDFDeal is also available as a desktop application for Windows and Mac, which works fully offline without a browser. The desktop app is the same tool but runs as a standalone application, so you can process large files or sensitive documents without any network connection at all.

PDFDeal accepts files up to 50 MB per file. The limit is enforced in two places: a client-side check runs before anything is uploaded so oversized files are stopped directly in the browser, and the server-side tools (Share, OCR, conversions to Word and Excel, and the editor's Edit mode) apply the same 50 MB cap on receipt. Most everyday PDFs sit well below this threshold. For extremely large files - for example high-resolution scanned documents or full-size books - the desktop app (coming soon) lifts the limit since it does not need to round-trip anything through a server.

Most tools run entirely in your browser: the file is read into memory by the JavaScript File API, processed by pdf-lib or PDF.js locally, and the result is downloaded from the same tab without ever touching our servers. A few features are not technically possible to run client-side - for example sharing a PDF with someone else via a public link, OCR on scanned documents, and the Edit mode in the editor (which extracts text and layout from the original). Those tools send the file to our EU-based servers, process it, and return the result. Every tool that uses server processing is clearly labelled as such on its own page so you always know what is happening with your file. When a file does go through a server we delete it automatically as soon as the job finishes, and you can trigger an immediate delete yourself from the result screen at any time.

Open PDFDeal's split tool, upload the PDF and pick which pages or page ranges should end up in each output file. pdf-lib builds a fresh PDF for every range directly in your browser and downloads them as separate files or bundled into a single ZIP. The original stays on your device the whole time.

Use the share option on any tool's result screen to generate a link you can send to a recipient. Because the other person needs to download the file from a public URL, this is one of the features that requires server-side storage - the PDF is uploaded to our EU infrastructure for the lifetime of the link. You can set an expiry, revoke the link at any moment (which deletes the file immediately), and see exactly how many times it has been downloaded. If you prefer not to upload anything, just download the file locally and attach it to an email or messenger instead.

Yes. Every tool's result screen has a Save-to-cloud option for Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive next to the regular Download button. When you pick one, you authorise PDFDeal in your cloud provider's own window (via their official picker) and the file is pushed straight from our service to your account - PDFDeal itself never keeps a copy of your storage credentials. For tools that run locally in your browser, the result is generated on your device and uploaded from there to your cloud drive. For tools that already process on our EU servers, the result file is streamed from the server to your chosen cloud provider and deleted from our side immediately. If you prefer not to use any cloud integration, the Download button still gives you the file on your device with no third-party involved.

Open PDFDeal's OCR tool and upload the scanned PDF. OCR (optical character recognition) reads the text from each page image and embeds a selectable text layer back into the PDF. Because the recognition model is too heavy to run smoothly in a browser, this is one of the tools that processes on our EU servers - it is marked as such on the tool page. Your file is deleted immediately after the recognised text layer is returned, and you can trigger a manual delete yourself at any time.

PDFDeal has dedicated tools for each format: PDF to Word, PDF to Excel, and PDF to Images. Image export runs locally in your browser using PDF.js and HTML Canvas. Word and Excel conversion requires parsing the underlying PDF structure in a way that is only feasible on a server, so those two tools process your file on our EU infrastructure and delete it automatically after conversion. Both tools clearly indicate this on their page.