PDF tools guide: merge, split, compress and convert PDFs

Which PDF tool do you need?

All PDF tools are listed under PDF & Documents and collected in the AltFLovePDF hub. These are the ones most people need:

• Combine several PDFs into one: PDF Merger.
• Break a PDF into pages or groups: PDF Split.
• Rearrange or delete pages: PDF Page Reorder.
• Make a PDF smaller for email or upload: PDF Compressor.
• Turn pages into images: PDF to JPG.
• Get editable text in Word: PDF to Word.
• Turn Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV or TXT into PDF: Office to PDF.

How to merge PDFs

1. 1

   Open PDF Merger

   Go to /tools/all/pdf-merger.

2. 2

   Add your files

   Drop up to 20 PDFs, each up to 80 MB. The page count of each file appears as it loads, along with the combined total.

3. 3

   Set the order

   Use Move Up and Move Down, or Reverse, to put the files in the right sequence. Pages are copied file by file from top to bottom.

4. 4

   Name and merge

   Type a name in the Combined File Name box and merge. The result downloads straight to your device.

Splitting, compressing and converting

PDF Split shows a file-by-file plan before it does anything. You can split every page, split into fixed batches, define custom page groups, or extract or remove specific pages, and download the output as separate PDFs or one ZIP.

PDF Compressor re-renders each page and re-encodes it as a JPEG at Low, Balanced or High quality, then rebuilds the PDF. It handles files up to 100 MB and shows the before and after size. Because pages become images, text in the compressed copy is no longer selectable, so keep your original if you need to search or copy from it.

PDF to JPG renders pages with PDF.js at 72 to 300 DPI and saves them as JPG, PNG or WebP; pick the pages you want from thumbnails. PDF to Word works on text-based PDFs and rebuilds paragraphs and headings into an editable .docx. Scanned PDFs are images of text and need OCR, which these tools do not perform.

Your documents stay on your device

The merge, split, compress and convert tools above read your file in the page and build the result in your browser, so contracts, invoices and ID scans are not sent to a server. The document is handed back as a normal download. See privacy and local processing for how to verify this for any tool.