What we won’t do — and why, out loud
- Word → PDF conversion
- Converting Word to PDF needs a real layout engine, and one of those cannot run faithfully inside a browser. So we don’t offer it, rather than offer it badly.
- “Real” digital signatures
- Our Sign tool places a picture of your signature — useful for “sign the form, email it back.” A cryptographic signature (certificate, identity, tamper-proofing) needs a private key and a certificate authority, and doing that honestly in a browser is a different product. We won’t let the word do work the feature hasn’t earned.
- Accounts, cloud storage, teams, APIs
- All of these need a server running forever. Declining them is why the rest can be free.
How this can possibly be free
Every tool on this site runs inside your browser, on your device. When you compress a 50 MB scan, your processor does the compressing. There is no upload, no queue, no server-side conversion farm — and therefore no marginal cost to recover from you. One static, labeled sponsor link pays for the hosting. That is the entire business model.
The same fact is the privacy story: a file that never leaves your device cannot be retained, scanned, breached, or need deleting afterwards, because it was never anywhere else to begin with. This is not a policy we promise to follow; it is how the software is built, and you can watch it be true in your browser's Network tab. The no-upload argument, in full, has its own page: work on a PDF without uploading it.
What's here
Four tools carry the engineering weight: Compress, which re-encodes the images inside your file under a legibility governor that refuses results you could tell apart at reading size; Redact, which removes marked text from the file's instruction list — deleted, not covered — and then proves it by extracting its own output; Sanitize, which rebuilds the file without its hidden data and re-inspects its own output before handing it back; and Verify, which reads a whole stack of PDFs and reports, worst first, what is still recoverable inside each. Around them: merge, split, extract, delete pages, reorder, rotate, images → PDF, PDF → images, text extraction, OCR, sign, watermark, page numbers, booklet & N-up and flatten. Each is its own page, and each page tells you what it will not do before it does anything. Beyond PDF entirely: the studio's QR code tool lives one door over.
Questions people actually ask
- Is my PDF uploaded when I use these tools?
- No. The file is opened by JavaScript running in your own browser tab and never leaves your device. You can verify this: open your browser’s developer tools, watch the Network tab, and run any tool — no request carries your file anywhere.
- Why is there no file-size limit or daily quota?
- Limits exist to manage server cost, and there is no server. The practical limit is your device’s own memory, which for ordinary documents you will not notice.
- Do the tools work offline?
- Once a tool page has loaded, the work itself needs no connection — the processing is local. The page and its engine still have to load from this site first.
- What does GeodePDF do with my data?
- Nothing, because it never receives any. The page makes no third-party requests of any kind — no analytics, no ad network, no fonts from a CDN. The one sponsor link is a plain link.
We invite you to double-check our work
Open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and run any tool on this page and nothing leaves your device.
The whole source is on GitHub. Read it.
Found a bug, or a claim that doesn’t hold up? Tell us: pdf@geodeforge.com. An example file turns a guess into a quick fix — and if yours is too sensitive to share, we understand; a description still helps.
That’s the difference between a privacy policy and a fact.
This slot pays for the page
One static, labeled sponsor link — an image we host and a plain link. No ad network, no tracking script, no third-party request. That is the entire business model, and it is why nothing above has a price.
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