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PDFgear is a free desktop app and online toolkit for editing, merging, splitting, compressing and converting PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or JPG.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Good to know: Requires desktop installation.
PDFsam Basic is a free, open-source desktop app for merging, splitting, extracting, rotating and mixing the pages of PDF files on your own computer.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Good to know: Requires desktop installation.
Sejda offers PDF tools for merging, splitting, compressing, editing and converting to Word, Excel or JPG in the browser or a desktop app.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Stirling PDF is an open-source PDF platform with dozens of tools such as merge, split, compress, sign, redact, convert and OCR, available as a desktop app or on your own server.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Good to know: Requires desktop installation.
TinyWow is a multi-tool website with dozens of PDF, image, video and file conversion tools in the browser, usable without registration, plus an optional paid plan.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Turn scanned PDFs and photos into searchable documents with OCR.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Ask a PDF questions and summarize specific sections.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Turn text in scanned PDFs into searchable, selectable content.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF
Find the main points of long PDFs with concise summaries.
Merge, Split or Compress PDF