Why PDF Vault exists
PDF work is often simple, but many tools make it feel heavy. They ask for accounts, push paid upgrades, or require uploading private documents to a server. PDF Vault is built for the common jobs people need quickly, without that friction.
What it can do today
- Edit a PDF: highlight text, add text notes, draw, add boxes and erase marks, rotate or delete pages, with undo and redo. On PDFs with selectable text you can also search for a word and highlight every match.
- Merge PDFs into one file, in the order you select them.
- Split a PDF by keeping the pages or ranges you choose, such as 1-3, 5, in a new PDF.
- Compress a PDF by shrinking the photos and scans inside it, while text stays sharp.
- Turn JPG or PNG images into a PDF, one image per page.
- Convert Word and other documents to PDF as a readable PDF that keeps the text.
- Save PDF pages as JPG or PNG images, or extract the text into a .txt file.
How privacy works
The tools run with JavaScript in your browser. Your files are read locally, processed in memory, and downloaded back to your device. Pocklit does not receive or store the PDF contents. If a feature ever needs a server, it will say so before you use it.
Good to know
- Password-protected PDFs need the password removed in the app that created them before they can be merged.
- A scanned PDF is a picture of each page, so text search and text export find nothing in it. That needs OCR (text recognition), which PDF Vault does not do.
- Large files depend on your device's memory, because all the work happens on your device. On a phone, merge big scans in smaller batches.
What comes next
A good next addition is watermarks. We will only add tools when they can be implemented honestly and reliably in the browser.