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Last update: Sep 28, 2026
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    • New

      Three more articles, including a PDF glossary

      Printing at a print shop — why to bring a PDF instead of a Word file and how to keep your files private on a shared computer; making a PDF easy to read on a phone; and PDF terms such as text layer, flatten, redact and permissions password explained in plain language.

    • New

      Two new articles: PDF forms and locked statements

      How to fill out a PDF form without printing it — fillable or not, and how to make sure your answers survive — and what to do when your bank statement or payslip PDF asks for a password, including when it is safe to save an unlocked copy.

    • New

      Six new articles in PDF resources

      New practical articles, in English and Filipino: why a scanned PDF is not searchable and what OCR does, how to send a copy of your ID safely, preparing documents for online job and school applications, image signatures versus digital signatures, short, long and A4 paper sizes, and whether online PDF tools are safe.

    • Improved

      Word to PDF: long bond paper

      Word to PDF now offers "long" bond paper, 8.5 × 13 inches, as a page size alongside A4, short (Letter) and Legal — and the size names now show their measurements, so long is not mistaken for Legal.

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    • New

      OCR PDF: make a scanned PDF searchable

      Turn a scan into a PDF you can search, select and copy text from, in English, Filipino or both. The pages look exactly the same — the recognised words are added invisibly on top — and the result works in PDF to Word, PDF to Excel, the AI Summarizer and Redact. Everything runs in your browser; the file is never uploaded, and there is a step-by-step guide in the PDF guides.

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    • New

      PDF to Excel

      Turn the tables in a PDF — bank statements, invoices, price lists — into an Excel workbook. Text lands in its rows and columns, and amounts become real numbers you can sort and add up, with their commas, decimals and negatives kept. Put each page on its own sheet or every page on one. It runs in your browser, so the file is never uploaded, and there is a step-by-step guide in the PDF guides.

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    • Improved

      Filipino pages have their own addresses

      Every page in Filipino now lives at its own address starting with /fil — for example pdf-tool-ph.com/fil/tools/merge — so you can bookmark or share a page in Filipino, and search engines can show it to people searching in Filipino. Your language choice is remembered, and switching language keeps the file you have open.

    • New

      Common questions on every tool page

      Each tool page now answers the questions people ask before using it — whether it is free, whether it keeps the quality of your file, and what it cannot do — in English and Filipino, right below the tool.

    • New

      Reopen documents you saved in Edit PDF

      The Edit PDF start screen now lists the documents you saved on this device, with their page count and when you saved them. Open one to pick up exactly where you left off, or remove it when you no longer need it. Saved documents stay in your browser and are never uploaded.

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    • Improved

      Edited text keeps the document's own font

      When you edit existing text in Edit PDF, you now type in the document's own font, and the download writes it back in that same font, including underlined, highlighted, listed, rotated, superscript and subscript lines. Only characters the original font doesn't have fall back to a similar font. Text you didn't touch stays exactly as it was, and pages stay sharp and selectable instead of turning into images.

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    • Improved

      New and existing text now work the same in Edit PDF

      Text you add and text already in the PDF now share one editor: drag the handles to move or resize, double-click to edit, and use Duplicate, Strikethrough, alignment and the other text tools on either. Shift-click to select several paragraphs and style, move, duplicate or delete them together.

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    • Fixed

      Sharper, steadier text editing in Edit PDF

      Text no longer turns blurry after you click it, and pages render crisply on high-resolution screens. Fonts and colours are kept when you edit, undo or duplicate text, the formatting toolbar no longer jumps around, and the hidden OCR text layer of scanned PDFs stays out of view.

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    • New

      Flatten PDF, from forms to the entire document

      Choose how permanent the result should be: bake filled forms and visible comments into the page while keeping normal text selectable, merge only the currently visible PDF layers, or turn every page into a fixed image at 150 or 300 DPI. The tool detects which modes apply, explains the tradeoffs before processing, and keeps the entire job on your device.

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    • New

      A dedicated Delete Pages tool

      Pick pages to remove from a visual grid, across one PDF or several — add another file at any point and its pages join the same working set, clearly labelled by source. Delete a single page or a whole selection at once, each behind a confirmation, with a brief Undo on the toast that follows. Runs entirely on your device.

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    • New

      Tell the new PDF Assistant what to do

      Use familiar tool shortcuts or a plain-language instruction to compress, convert to Word or images, rotate, split, crop, extract pages, remove pages, or add a watermark. Safe actions run locally inside the chat and return their downloads there; tools that need another file, a visual selection, or a password open their dedicated screen. Unsupported tools and conversion formats now receive a clear answer instead of being silently substituted.

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    • Improved

      A full-screen PDF chat workspace

      Uploading a PDF opens a spacious chat workspace beneath the site header, with a collapsible page-preview rail, independently scrolling conversation, and pinned chat input. On mobile, open the compact file card to browse pages in a preview sheet. Page references jump to the matching preview without losing your place in the chat.

    • New

      Chat with your PDF in English or Filipino

      Ask follow-up questions with streaming replies, document-aware suggestions, and copy or PDF/text downloads. Includes a mobile chat composer, password-protected uploads, and a clearly disclosed 30-minute text session.

    • Improved

      Sharper, simpler Edit PDF previews on mobile

      Edit PDF now opens a compact grid of sharp page thumbnails on phones. Tap a page to edit it in a focused single-page view, return to the grid from the Pages button, or open Manage pages to rotate, delete, reorder, and add pages. Desktop keeps its full page rail and workspace.

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    • New

      Redact PDF — take content out for good

      Mark anything sensitive by dragging over it, or search for a name or number and mark every match at once. The words are deleted from the file itself rather than covered with a black box, so nothing can be copied out from underneath. Where an area lands on a photo or an unreadable font, that page is flattened to an image instead — which removes it just as completely, and the tool tells you which pages.

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    • New

      Crop PDF — trim margins without losing quality

      Drag a frame over the page to cut away margins or page furniture, with presets for A4, Letter and square, and a "remove margins" button that finds the content for you. Use one crop for the whole document, or a different one on every page for scans. Only the page boundaries change, so text stays selectable and nothing is re-rendered.

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    • New

      Keep your most-used tools one tap away

      Tap the star on any tool to make it a favourite. Favourites get their own filter on the home page and sit at the top of the Tools menu, so the ones you actually use are always first. No account needed — they are remembered on this device.

    • New

      Build one editable PDF from several files

      In Edit PDF, select several PDFs to arrange their first-page previews and open them as one document. You can also insert another PDF later from the Pages rail, choosing exactly where its pages belong without losing your edits.

    • Improved

      Protected PDFs now work across the toolkit

      A password prompt now appears automatically when a protected PDF is selected in a supported tool, then continues with an unlocked local copy. A consistent, delayed loading screen also makes longer file work and progress easier to follow.

    • Fixed

      Clearer image controls in Edit PDF

      The larger text toolbar is easier to use, while a selected image now keeps its own Material delete button so image removal does not conflict with text formatting.

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    • Improved

      Smoother text editing in Edit PDF

      Select a text paragraph to reveal its formatting controls, then format, move, resize, duplicate, or remove the whole selection. The clearer selection frame and touch-friendly controls also make editing easier on phones.

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    • Improved

      Images to PDF now has a real page preview

      Add several JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC images at once, then drag them into order, rotate or remove individual pages, and choose page size, orientation, margins, and image fit before creating the PDF.

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    • Improved

      Cleaner success screens

      Finished files now go straight to the actions that matter — download, share, edit, or start over — without an embedded PDF or image preview getting in the way.

    • New

      Scan several documents into one PDF

      Use a full-screen phone camera with paper, receipt, ID, and business-card guide frames, live document outlines and optional auto-capture, perspective correction, scanner filters, page reordering, and one private on-device PDF.

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    • Improved

      A bigger, easier tools menu

      The Tools menu in the top bar is wider and better organized on desktop, opens on hover, and can be driven with the arrow keys.

    • Improved

      One hub for Word ↔ PDF conversion

      Word to PDF and PDF to Word now share one flexible tool: drop in several files at once — even a mix of both — and each converts through its own direction, with a preview before you download.

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    • New

      PDF to Image is now its own tool

      Split out of Convert PDF into a dedicated tool: choose JPG, PNG or WebP, pick which pages to export and the quality/DPI, then download a single image or a zip.

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    • Fixed

      Sharper, more reliable editor rendering

      Fixed blurry pages at some zoom levels, a rendering race that could show a stale page after fast edits, and stricter validation when adding images.

    • Improved

      Clearer delete-page confirmation

      The delete-page button in the editor now sits where the Rotate tool already put it, and the confirmation dialog before a page is removed is easier to read at a glance.

    • Fixed

      Text selection bug fixed

      Corrected a bug affecting text selection in the editor.

    • New

      PDF Tool PH launches

      Free PDF tools that run entirely in your browser — no upload, no sign-up, no watermark — starting with Merge, Split and Edit PDF.