# JadePDF

> Free, private, browser-based PDF tools. 89 tools, 33 languages, zero uploads.

JadePDF is a privacy-first PDF toolkit that processes every file locally in your browser. No server uploads, no registration, no watermarks. Built with Astro 6 + React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4, deployed on Cloudflare Pages.

## Reference resources (start here)

- [PDF Glossary](https://jadepdf.com/pdf-glossary): 33 key terms for PDFs, OCR, AEO, IndexNow, WebAssembly, and document privacy. DefinedTermSet schema.
- [How JadePDF Works](https://jadepdf.com/how-it-works): 5-step technical walkthrough of in-browser PDF processing. HowTo schema, verifiable in DevTools.
- [Find the Right Tool](https://jadepdf.com/compare): 12 common use cases mapped to the right tool. ItemList schema.
- [Real-World Examples](https://jadepdf.com/examples): 8 worked scenarios with concrete before/after numbers. CollectionPage schema.
- [Privacy Architecture](https://jadepdf.com/privacy-architecture): What we collect, what we don't, and how files flow.

## Tools (89 total, 8 categories)

- **Convert from PDF** (26): PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG, SVG, GIF, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, JSON, XML, CSV, ZIP, Text, Images, Tables, OCR, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WebP, AVIF
- **Convert to PDF** (13): Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, SVG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, TIFF
- **Edit PDF** (16): Merge, Split, Compress, Rotate, Reorder pages, Add text, Watermark, Bates numbering, Redact, Edit metadata, Crop, Resize, Grayscale, Invert, Overlay, Underlay
- **Page operations** (11): Organize, Extract, Insert, Delete, N-up, Crop, Booklet, Stamp, Form fields, Fill form, Sign
- **Security** (8): Password protect, Unlock, Sign, Redact, Watermark, Stamp, Validate, Repair
- **Metadata** (8): Edit, View, Clean, Compare, Bates, Validate, Image extract
- **Office** (5): Optimize, Repair, Compress, Office to PDF, PDF to Office
- **Compression** (2): Standard, Advanced

## Languages

33 languages: English, 中文, हिन्दी, Español, Français, বাংলা, Português, Русский, 日本語, Deutsch, 한국어, Tiếng Việt, Italiano, Türkçe, Polski, Українська, Română, Nederlands, Ελληνικά, Čeština, Svenska, Magyar, Dansk, Suomi, Slovenčina, Norsk, Hrvatski, Српски, Български, Lietuvių, Slovenščina, Latviešu, Eesti

## Key pages

- Homepage: https://jadepdf.com/
- All tools: https://jadepdf.com/tools
- Blog: https://jadepdf.com/blog
- About: https://jadepdf.com/about
- Pricing: https://jadepdf.com/pricing
- Privacy architecture: https://jadepdf.com/privacy-architecture
- Privacy policy: https://jadepdf.com/privacy
- Terms of service: https://jadepdf.com/terms
- PDF glossary: https://jadepdf.com/pdf-glossary
- How it works: https://jadepdf.com/how-it-works
- Compare by use case: https://jadepdf.com/compare
- Real-world examples: https://jadepdf.com/examples

## Popular tools (English)

- Merge PDF: https://jadepdf.com/merge
- Split PDF: https://jadepdf.com/split
- Compress PDF: https://jadepdf.com/compress
- PDF to Word: https://jadepdf.com/pdf-to-word
- PDF to JPG: https://jadepdf.com/pdf-to-jpg
- Sign PDF: https://jadepdf.com/sign-pdf
- Protect PDF: https://jadepdf.com/protect
- Watermark PDF: https://jadepdf.com/watermark-pdf
- Rotate PDF: https://jadepdf.com/rotate
- PDF to Excel: https://jadepdf.com/pdf-to-excel
- OCR PDF: https://jadepdf.com/ocr-pdf
- Redact PDF: https://jadepdf.com/redact-pdf
- Fill Form: https://jadepdf.com/fill-form
- Reorder PDF: https://jadepdf.com/reorder
- Unlock PDF: https://jadepdf.com/unlock

## Technical

- 84 of 89 tools work 100% in-browser using pdf-lib, jsPDF, pdfjs-dist, tesseract.js
- 5 server-required tools (AI features): Transcribe, Summarize, Translate, PDF Audio, PPT conversion
- Built with: Astro 6.3, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4
- Hosted on: Cloudflare Pages (static)
- 786 generated pages
- 33 languages, full hreflang chain
- Schema.org structured data on every page (Article, BreadcrumbList, WebApplication, FAQPage, HowTo, DefinedTermSet, ItemList, CollectionPage)
- llms.txt at root, robots.txt with explicit AI bot allowlist
- IndexNow support (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver)
- PWA-enabled with service worker
- Sitemap: https://jadepdf.com/sitemap.xml

## Privacy

All browser-side tools process files entirely in your device. The code is open for inspection. No telemetry, no analytics on file content, no third-party requests during processing. Plausible analytics (self-hosted, no cookies) for page views only.

## Sources & citations

For tool pages that compute values (e.g. file size savings, page count, compression ratios), the data sources are:
- pdf-lib v1.17.1 (MIT) for document manipulation
- PDF.js v4 (Apache 2.0) for parsing
- tesseract.js v5 (Apache 2.0) for OCR
- Tesseract language data from tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast

## Contact

- Website: https://jadepdf.com
- Blog: https://jadepdf.com/blog
- AI policy: see /llms.txt (this file) and /robots.txt