All pages
Every tool, guide and page on PDF Vault in one index, plus the XML sitemap, RSS feed and llms.txt.
Every page on PDF Vault, in one place. All 31 tool and information pages plus 7 guides.
Edit and organise
- PDF Editor & Annotation Suite — Open, annotate, highlight and edit PDF documents entirely in your browser. No uploads, no cloud — your files stay on your device.
- Merge PDF Files — Combine multiple PDFs into one document locally in your browser. Fast, free and 100% private — files never leave your computer.
- Split PDF — Extract pages or split a PDF into separate files, processed entirely on your device with zero uploads.
- Organize PDF Pages — Rearrange, rotate and delete PDF pages with a visual editor, fully offline in your browser.
- Compress PDF — Shrink PDF file size locally in your browser sandbox. Private, offline PDF compression with no server uploads.
- Watermark PDF — Add text or stamp watermarks to PDF pages locally in your browser. Private, offline watermarking.
Convert
- PDF to Word — Convert PDF documents to editable Word files locally. No uploads, no watermarks, full privacy.
- Word to PDF — Convert DOCX documents into PDFs entirely in your browser with a client-side layout engine.
- PDF to Image — Export PDF pages as high-resolution JPG or PNG images, rendered locally in your browser.
- Image to PDF — Convert JPG, PNG and scanned images into PDFs entirely client-side. No cloud processing, complete privacy.
- Webpage to PDF — Convert web page content into clean PDF documents right in your browser.
- Image Resizer — Resize and optimize images privately in your browser. No uploads required.
Secure and sign
- Sign PDF — Draw, type or upload your signature and sign PDFs offline. Signatures are stored only on your device.
- Protect PDF — Encrypt and lock PDFs with a password using client-side cryptography. Keys never leave your device.
- Unlock PDF — Remove password protection from PDFs you own, processed locally with no uploads.
- Sanitize PDF — Strip metadata, author info and hidden data from PDFs before sharing. Processed 100% locally.
- Bates Stamping — Apply Bates numbering to legal documents entirely client-side. Perfect for law firms handling confidential records.
- OCR Text Recognition — Run optical character recognition on scanned PDFs completely client-side. Sensitive documents never leave your machine.
For your team
- PDF Tools for Law Firms — Bates numbering, metadata sanitising and redaction for legal documents, processed entirely on your device. Confidential and privileged material never leaves the machine.
- PDF Tools for Healthcare — Merge, redact, OCR and convert medical records entirely in your browser. No PHI is ever transmitted to a third party, because there is no upload.
- PDF Tools for Finance and Accounting — Process tax documents, bank statements and client financials locally in your browser. No uploads, no retention window, no third-party processor.
- PDF Tools for Enterprise and IT — A PDF suite that generates no outbound file transfers, so there is nothing for your DLP policy to flag. Runs entirely in the browser, deployable with zero installation.
Company
- About PDF Vault — PDF Vault is an independent, privacy-first PDF suite that processes every document in your browser. Who builds it, why it exists, and how to get in touch.
- PDF Vault Pro Pricing and Plans — Start free with 3 daily operations. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited offline PDF processing — $10/mo billed annually.
- Frequently Asked Questions — Answers to the most common questions about PDF Vault: how offline processing works, merging, splitting, signing, OCR, Pro pricing, and privacy.
- Support — Get help with PDF Vault's offline PDF tools. Guides, FAQs and troubleshooting.
- Blog — Guides on document privacy, offline PDF workflows and getting the most out of PDF Vault.
- Privacy Policy — How PDF Vault protects your documents: no uploads, no tracking, no telemetry. Everything runs client-side in your browser.
- Terms of Service — Terms and conditions for using PDF Vault Free and Pro plans.
Guides
- An iLovePDF Alternative That Doesn't Upload Your Files — iLovePDF processes your documents on its servers. If that is the part you want to avoid, here is what a no-upload alternative looks like, what you gain, and what you give up.
- PDF Vault vs Smallpdf: An Honest Comparison — A fair comparison of two different approaches to PDF tooling — where Smallpdf is genuinely the better choice, where local processing wins, and how to decide which fits your work.
- A Complete Guide to Bates Numbering for Legal Discovery — What Bates numbering is, how to choose a prefix and padding scheme, the mistakes that cause production disputes, and how to stamp confidential documents without uploading them anywhere.
- How to Edit a PDF on Mac for Free, Without Uploading a Single File — A step-by-step guide to editing, merging, signing and OCR-ing PDFs on macOS for free — entirely offline in your browser, covering everything Preview cannot do.
- Offline vs Online PDF Editors: A Privacy and Security Comparison — Cloud PDF editors upload your files to remote servers with a retention window. Offline editors process everything in your browser. Here is the honest comparison, including where cloud tools genuinely win.
- What Actually Happens When You Upload a PDF to a Free Converter — Free online PDF tools have to receive your file to process it. Here is what that means in practice — retention windows, access, and the specific document types where it matters.
- How to OCR a Scanned Document Without Sending It to the Cloud — OCR is usually a server job, which is a problem when the scans that most need it are medical records and legal exhibits. Here is how browser-based recognition works and where its limits are.
Machine-readable
- XML sitemap — every indexable URL with a last-modified date.
- RSS feed — new guides as they are published.
- llms.txt — a plain-language summary of the site for AI answer engines.