# 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.

Folio (also called Folio PDF Studio) is a free web app made by Niranjan D (https://www.niranjand.in). It is an iLovePDF-style PDF toolkit at https://folio.niranjand.in/.

## Key facts

- Price: free. No account, no sign-up, no payment step.
- 41 PDF tools: organize, optimize, convert to PDF, convert from PDF, edit, security and intelligence (OCR, summarizer, compare).
- Full PDF editor: edit existing text, add text, images, shapes, ink, notes, highlights and form fields, whiteout, redact, page operations, undo.
- 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).
- Platform: runs in a modern web browser; nothing to install.
- Engines on the server: PyMuPDF, pikepdf, pdf2docx, python-pptx, openpyxl, LibreOffice (Office to PDF), Chromium (HTML to PDF), Tesseract OCR (English, Hindi, Tamil), pymupdf4llm.

## Links

- [Home page with all tools](https://folio.niranjand.in/)
- [FAQ](https://folio.niranjand.in/#faq)
- [Full description for AI assistants](https://folio.niranjand.in/llms-full.txt)

## Tools

### Organize PDF

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

### Optimize PDF

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

### Convert to PDF

- [Word to PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/word_to_pdf): Turn DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT or TXT documents into PDFs that look exactly like the original.
- [PowerPoint to PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/powerpoint_to_pdf): Turn PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX or ODP slideshows into PDFs, one slide per page.
- [Excel to PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/excel_to_pdf): Turn XLS, XLSX, CSV or ODS spreadsheets into easy-to-read PDFs.
- [JPG to PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/images_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](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/html_to_pdf): Convert a web page (enter its URL) or an HTML file to PDF with Microsoft Edge.
- [Text to PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/text_to_pdf): Turn plain text or Markdown files into clean, paginated PDFs.

### Convert from PDF

- [PDF to Word](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_word): Convert PDFs into editable DOCX documents, keeping text, tables and layout.
- [PDF to PowerPoint](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_powerpoint): Turn each PDF page into a PowerPoint slide with editable text boxes.
- [PDF to Excel](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_excel): Pull tables out of PDFs into Excel spreadsheets.
- [PDF to JPG](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_jpg): Save every PDF page as a JPG image, or pull out the images inside the PDF.
- [PDF to PNG](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_png): Save PDF pages as lossless PNG images, optionally with a transparent background.
- [Extract images](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/extract_images): Pull every picture embedded in a PDF out as a separate image file.
- [PDF to Text](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_text): Extract all the text from a PDF into a plain TXT file.
- [PDF to Markdown](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_markdown): Convert PDFs to Markdown with headings, lists, tables and links — great for AI tools and notes.
- [PDF to HTML](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_html): Convert a PDF into a single self-contained HTML page.
- [PDF to SVG](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/pdf_to_svg): Convert each PDF page to a scalable SVG vector image.

### Edit PDF

- [Add watermark](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/watermark): Stamp text or an image over or under your pages.
- [Remove watermark](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/remove_watermark): Strip watermark stamps, layers, repeated logos and diagonal text. Only use on documents you own or may modify.
- [PDF Forms](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/forms): Detect form fields, auto-create fields from blanks and boxes, fill, flatten or clear them.

### PDF security

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

### Intelligence

- [OCR PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/ocr): Make scanned PDFs searchable and selectable with Tesseract OCR, or pull out their text.
- [AI Summarizer](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/summarize): Summarize a PDF with Folio's built-in extractive summarizer.
- [Compare PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/tool/compare): Compare two versions of a document side by side: removed words in red, added words in green, plus an optional visual pixel diff.

## More features

- [Edit PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/edit): Edit existing PDF text, add text, images, shapes, ink, notes, highlights and form fields, white out or redact, with undo. Free, no sign-up.
- [Sign PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/sign): Draw, type or upload your signature and place it anywhere on a PDF page. Free in your browser, with no account and no sign-up.
- [Scan to PDF](https://folio.niranjand.in/scan): Use your phone or laptop camera to capture paper pages, clean them up and turn them into one PDF. Free, in your browser, no sign-up.
- [Edit screenshot text](https://folio.niranjand.in/screenshot): Change any word or letter in a screenshot. Folio redraws the new text in the same font, size and colour. Free in your browser, no sign-up.
- [Workflows](https://folio.niranjand.in/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. Free, no sign-up.
- [Compare side by side](https://folio.niranjand.in/compare): Open two versions of a document next to each other, side by side or with a slider, and see what changed. Free in your browser, no sign-up.

## Compared with other PDF tools

- [Folio vs iLovePDF, Smallpdf and Adobe Acrobat online](https://folio.niranjand.in/alternatives): Looking for a free iLovePDF, Smallpdf or Adobe Acrobat online alternative with no account? How Folio compares, and where the others do more.

## Maker

- [Niranjan D](https://www.niranjand.in)