Pagelea
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Change PDF text,
without uploading it.

Pagelea rewrites supported native and scanned text, then handles seven more everyday PDF jobs locally in your browser. Free and open source, with no account or artificial task quota.

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Free forever No account No server upload
Merge•Optimize•Edit•Convert•Sign•Organise•Merge•Optimize

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The production workbench.

Each tool opens into the same calm workflow: choose files, adjust what matters, download the result.

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PDF EditorEdit existing text, recognize English or Italian scans locally, then add images, shapes, highlights, signatures, freehand marks, and whiteout.Merge PDFReorder whole PDFs and images, then create one continuous document without uploading the source files.Organize PDFUse page thumbnails to restructure one PDF while preserving its original page content.Split PDF by PagesDescribe each output group and Pagelea packages the resulting PDFs in one ZIP archive.

Merge

2 tools
Merge PDFReorder whole PDFs and images, then create one continuous document without uploading the source files.Organize PDFUse page thumbnails to restructure one PDF while preserving its original page content.

Split

1 tools
Split PDF by PagesDescribe each output group and Pagelea packages the resulting PDFs in one ZIP archive.

Edit & Sign

2 tools
PDF EditorEdit existing text, recognize English or Italian scans locally, then add images, shapes, highlights, signatures, freehand marks, and whiteout.Sign PDFAdd text, initials, images, and signatures exactly where they belong without uploading the document.

Optimize

1 tools
Optimize PDFRemove optional metadata, rebuild page objects, and write compact object streams while keeping the original when it is already smaller.

Security

1 tools
Sanitize & Flatten PDFFlatten visible form values, remove annotations, actions, scripts, attachments, and metadata, then rebuild the pages in a fresh PDF.

Convert to PDF

1 tools
Images to PDFChoose page size, orientation, and margins, then build a PDF locally from your images.
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No placeholder conversions. Every tool shown here performs the work it promises.
Local-first processing100 MB PDF safety limit

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All eight published tools are free for manual document work. There is no account or hourly task quota; documented safety limits protect your browser tab.

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The community code is available under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Read it, audit it, improve it, or build with it under the repository licence.

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No manual required

Three jobs. Three simple paths.

01

Rewrite native or scanned PDF text

Click existing text or recognize an English or Italian scan locally, then rewrite the selected line.

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02

Combine a folder of PDFs in the right order

Add files, arrange them visually, and build one continuous document in a few clicks.

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03

Optimize a PDF without vague quality claims

Clean and repack its internal structure, then keep whichever safe version is smaller.

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