PDF Tools — Rotate, Split, Merge, Compress & Extract Pages

About

A pocket toolkit for the PDF jobs that take 30 seconds and ten clicks somewhere else. Open the popup, drop a file, pick a tool — rotate, split, merge, compress, or extract pages — and the result lands in your downloads folder. No upload to a website, no signup, no paywall.

✨ FEATURES

🔄 Rotate PDF — turn pages 90, 180, or 270 degrees. The rotate tool handles single pages or whole documents and outputs a clean file with the rotation baked in.

✂️ Split PDF — break a multi-page document into separate files. The split tool offers per-page splits, range splits (pages 1-5, 6-10), or bookmark-based splits.

🔗 Merge PDF — combine many documents into one. The merge flow keeps the original page order and writes a single output. Reorder before merging with a drag handle.

📉 Compress PDF — shrink the file size for email attachments and uploads. The compress logic recompresses embedded images while preserving text quality.

📄 Extract PDF Pages — pull individual pages out of a long document. The extract pages flow keeps the source untouched and writes a new file with just the pages you picked.

🎯 WHO USES IT

📚 Students assembling a multi-source bibliography who need to merge PDF files from different libraries.

💼 Office workers who scan a contract upside-down and want a fast rotate tool without opening a heavy desktop app.

📑 Lawyers and paralegals who extract PDF pages from long discovery documents for case files.

📧 Sales teams who need to compress PDF files to fit Gmail attachment limits.

📰 Researchers who split PDF chapters out of long ebooks for note-taking.

🛠️ HOW IT WORKS

🔒 Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Files never leave your device. No upload, no remote logging, no tracking pixel.

📁 Drop a document onto the popup, click the toolbar icon, or right-click any PDF link on the web and pick "Open with PDF Tools" — the extension loads the file with tool tabs ready.

🪄 Pick the tool tab — Rotate, Split, Merge, Compress, or Extract — and the right options appear. Each operation finishes in under a second for files under 10MB.

📥 The output file downloads automatically. The original stays on your device, untouched.

🚀 WHY THIS EXTENSION

Most document tasks involve uploading the file to a website, hitting a paywall after the third upload, and waiting through a slow encode. This bundle skips that. Drag, pick a tool, done — and your files never leave your machine.

📝 USE CASES

📚 Academic — split a long textbook into chapter files for easier reference; merge cited papers into one bibliography document.

💼 Business — compress contracts before emailing; extract signature pages from a 200-page master agreement.

📄 Legal — extract PDF pages from depositions for case prep; rotate scanned exhibits that came in sideways.

🏥 Medical — split a long patient chart into per-visit files; merge intake forms before sending to a specialist.

🎨 Design — extract design pages from a brand book; rotate landscape spreads to portrait before printing.

💡 TIPS

— Right-click any PDF link on the web and pick "Open with PDF Tools" to skip the download-then-open dance.
— The split tool supports custom ranges — paste "1-3, 7-9, 12" to extract three slices at once.
— The compress tool offers a quality slider; smaller outputs use lower-resolution images.
— Merge accepts drag-to-reorder; drop pages in the right sequence before exporting.
— The rotate tool remembers your last rotation, useful for repeated landscape exports.

Install the toolkit and stop hopping between websites for every small document task.