Free online PDF editor and 41 PDF tools, no sign-up

Folio is a free online PDF studio: 41 PDF tools (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, redact and more) and a full PDF editor that you use in your browser, with no account and no sign-up. Files you add are processed on Folio's own server and deleted automatically after 6 hours (24 hours for documents open in the editor).

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What is Folio?

Folio is a free online PDF studio: 41 PDF tools (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, redact and more) and a full PDF editor that you use in your browser, with no account and no sign-up.

  • Free, no account. No sign-up and no payment step. Open a tool and add your file.
  • 41 PDF tools. Organize, optimize, convert to and from PDF, edit, secure, OCR, summarize and compare.
  • A real PDF editor. Change existing text, add text, images, shapes, ink, notes, highlights and form fields, redact, with undo.
  • Files are not kept. Files you add are processed on Folio's own server and deleted automatically after 6 hours (24 hours for documents open in the editor).
  • Nothing to install. Folio runs in your web browser, and workflows chain several tools to run on many files in one go.

How to use Folio

  1. Pick a tool from the list, for example Merge PDF or Compress PDF.
  2. Add your files: drop them on the page or click to choose them.
  3. Set the options you need. Each tool shows its own.
  4. Run it and download the result. Several output files can be downloaded together as a ZIP.

Files you add are processed on Folio's own server and deleted automatically after 6 hours (24 hours for documents open in the editor).

All 41 PDF tools

Every tool is free and needs no account. Pick one to see what it can do.

Organize PDF

  • Merge PDF Combine PDFs (and images) into one document in the order you want.
  • Split PDF Split a PDF by ranges, every N pages, size, bookmarks, or pull out pages.
  • Organize PDF Reorder, delete, duplicate, rotate pages and insert blank pages.
  • Rotate PDF Rotate all or selected pages by 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
  • Crop PDF Trim page margins by millimetres or auto-trim surrounding whitespace.
  • Add page numbers Stamp page numbers with your position, format, font size and colour.
  • Remove pages Delete the pages you don't need.
  • Extract pages Copy selected pages into a new PDF (or one PDF per page).

Optimize PDF

  • Compress PDF Shrink file size by recompressing images and cleaning up the file.
  • Repair PDF Rebuild a damaged or corrupt PDF so it opens again.
  • PDF to PDF/A Convert to PDF/A-2B for long-term archiving (best effort without Ghostscript).
  • Grayscale PDF Convert every page to black and white shades of gray.
  • Flatten PDF Burn annotations and form fields into the page so they can't be edited.
  • Remove annotations Strip comments, highlights, stamps and other annotations.
  • Edit metadata Change title, author, subject and keywords, or wipe all metadata.

Convert to PDF

  • Word to PDF Turn DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT or TXT documents into PDFs that look exactly like the original.
  • PowerPoint to PDF Turn PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX or ODP slideshows into PDFs, one slide per page.
  • Excel to PDF Turn XLS, XLSX, CSV or ODS spreadsheets into easy-to-read PDFs.
  • JPG to PDF Convert JPG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF and other images to PDF. Adjust page size, orientation and margins, or clean photos of documents like a scanner app.
  • HTML to PDF Convert a web page (enter its URL) or an HTML file to PDF with Microsoft Edge.
  • Text to PDF Turn plain text or Markdown files into clean, paginated PDFs.

Convert from PDF

  • PDF to Word Convert PDFs into editable DOCX documents, keeping text, tables and layout.
  • PDF to PowerPoint Turn each PDF page into a PowerPoint slide with editable text boxes.
  • PDF to Excel Pull tables out of PDFs into Excel spreadsheets.
  • PDF to JPG Save every PDF page as a JPG image, or pull out the images inside the PDF.
  • PDF to PNG Save PDF pages as lossless PNG images, optionally with a transparent background.
  • Extract images Pull every picture embedded in a PDF out as a separate image file.
  • PDF to Text Extract all the text from a PDF into a plain TXT file.
  • PDF to Markdown Convert PDFs to Markdown with headings, lists, tables and links — great for AI tools and notes.
  • PDF to HTML Convert a PDF into a single self-contained HTML page.
  • PDF to SVG Convert each PDF page to a scalable SVG vector image.

Edit PDF

  • Add watermark Stamp text or an image over or under your pages.
  • Remove watermark Strip watermark stamps, layers, repeated logos and diagonal text. Only use on documents you own or may modify.
  • PDF Forms Detect form fields, auto-create fields from blanks and boxes, fill, flatten or clear them.

PDF security

  • Protect PDF Encrypt a PDF with a password (AES-256) and choose what readers may do.
  • Unlock PDF Remove the password and restrictions from a PDF you're allowed to open.
  • Redact PDF Permanently remove sensitive text: search terms, emails, phone numbers, card numbers and more.
  • Sign PDF Place your signature image or a typed signature on a page, with an optional date.

Intelligence

  • OCR PDF Make scanned PDFs searchable and selectable with Tesseract OCR, or pull out their text.
  • AI Summarizer Summarize a PDF with Folio's built-in extractive summarizer.
  • Compare PDF Compare two versions of a document side by side: removed words in red, added words in green, plus an optional visual pixel diff.

Editor, signing, scanning and automation

  • Edit PDF Edit existing PDF text, add text, images, shapes, ink, notes, highlights and form fields, white out or redact, with undo.
  • Sign PDF Draw, type or upload your signature and place it anywhere on a PDF page.
  • Scan to PDF Use your phone or laptop camera to capture paper pages, clean them up and turn them into one PDF.
  • Edit screenshot text Change any word or letter in a screenshot.
  • Workflows Chain Folio's PDF tools together and run them on many files in one go: each step works on the result of the step before it.
  • Compare side by side Open two versions of a document next to each other, side by side or with a slider, and see what changed.
  • Folio vs iLovePDF, Smallpdf and Acrobat How Folio compares with other online PDF tools.

Frequently asked questions

What is Folio?

Folio is a free online PDF studio: 41 PDF tools (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, redact and more) and a full PDF editor that you use in your browser, with no account and no sign-up. It is an iLovePDF-style toolkit with a full page editor, workflows, OCR and a built-in PDF summarizer.

Is Folio free?

Yes. Folio is free to use, with no account, no sign-up and no payment step. Open a tool and add your file.

What happens to my files?

Files you add are processed on Folio's own server and deleted automatically after 6 hours (24 hours for documents open in the editor). They are used only to run the tool you picked, and because there is no account they are not linked to you.

How is Folio different from iLovePDF or Smallpdf?

It covers the same kind of tool grid (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, protect and more) for free, without an account or a paid plan. It also has a full PDF editor that changes existing text, an editor for the text in screenshots, and workflows that chain several tools. See how Folio compares with iLovePDF, Smallpdf and Adobe Acrobat online.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Folio runs in your web browser on a computer or a phone. There is nothing to download or install.

Can Folio OCR scanned PDFs?

Yes. The OCR PDF tool uses Tesseract to make scanned PDFs searchable and selectable or to pull out their text. English, Hindi and Tamil are installed.

Can Folio edit the existing text in a PDF?

Yes. In the PDF editor you click existing text and type; Folio removes the old text and writes the new text in the same box, matching its size, colour and style. You can also add text, images, shapes, highlights, notes and form fields.

Who makes Folio?

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