Why this exists

The problem with uploading a PDF

The PDFs people fix are rarely trivial. A signed contract. A bank statement for a mortgage. A passport scan for a visa. Medical letters, payslips, tax returns. And the fixes are small: make it smaller, unlock it, black out an account number, merge two scans.

Yet the normal way to do any of them online is to send the whole document to a stranger’s server, wait, and download it back. That leaves a copy on someone else’s machine, a retention policy you didn’t read, and a daily limit — for a job that takes two seconds locally.

That’s not a knock on the big PDF sites: some of them handle jobs no browser can yet, and each comparison says plainly where they’re the better choice. The difference is only where the file goes.

How this works instead

Every tool runs inside your browser tab. Mozilla’s pdf.js reads and renders pages, pdf-lib rewrites the file, and qpdf and Tesseract run as WebAssembly for encryption, repair and OCR. Your PDF is read from your disk, fixed in the tab’s memory, and saved back as a download. How it works goes into detail, and no upload shows how to check it.

What we promise

• 0 bytes uploaded. Not a policy — there is no endpoint to upload to.
• No watermark, on any tool, ever.
• No sign-up and no daily cap.
• No ads, ever. One analytics script counts page visits and is blocked from the tool area; nothing else from anyone else.
• Honest limits. Every tool page has a “Worth knowing” box that says what it can’t do.

How these pages are written

They are written by Suprabhat, who runs this site — his profile says who he is, what he does and does not know about PDFs, and the rules these pages are held to.

Every tool page is built around a tool that runs on the page itself, and a tool gets a page only once it works. The writing is there to help you decide whether it is the right tool, which settings matter, and what you will get back. Each page’s “Worth knowing” box lists what that tool can’t do, because a PDF tool that fails quietly is worse than one that says so.

The guides, fixes and walkthroughs each answer one question. Anything presented as a test result comes from running real PDFs through these tools: sizes before and after, what survived and what didn’t. When you compress a PDF, the before-and-after score under the result is measured on your own file, page by page.

I check every figure on these pages against the source it comes from, and every claim about a tool against the tool itself, by running it. If a page and the tool disagree, the page is wrong and I fix it.

Comparisons with other PDF sites are written from their public pricing and help pages, link to them so you can check today’s terms, and say where they are the better choice.

If something here is wrong, please email hello@fixmypdfs.cc. Corrections are made at the source, so they reach every page that uses them, and a page’s “updated” date changes only when its content does.

Not the same as fixmypdf.com and similar sites

FixMyPDFs is fixmypdfs.cc — with an s. It is an independent site and is not affiliated with fixmypdf.com, fixmypdf.net, fixmypdf.in, fixmypdf.ai or fixmypdfonline.com, which have similar names. If a site asks you to upload your file, sign up or pay, it isn’t this one: nothing here does any of those.

What’s here

71 tools in 10 groups, among them security & privacy , merge & organize , compress and office convert . 68 of them work today; the rest are listed on the tools page as coming soon, and they get a page the day they work.