Why we built this

Most online PDF tools follow the same pattern: you upload a document, a remote server runs a conversion, and you download the result. That works, but it means your contracts, medical records, tax returns, and personal notes travel to an unknown datacentre where someone else's privacy policy decides how they are handled. For a category of files this sensitive, that trade-off never felt right.

Browsers have quietly become powerful enough to do the heavy lifting locally. Modern engines run WebAssembly at near-native speed, expose full font and image pipelines, and can stream gigabytes of data through the File System Access API. Be My PDF is our answer to the question: what happens when you rebuild the whole PDF suite around that fact?

How the tools work

Every core operation on this site runs inside your browser tab. When you drop a PDF into merge, split, or compress, the file is loaded into memory on your own machine. The compiled processing engine — pdf-lib, pdf.js, Tesseract for OCR, a WebAssembly image encoder for JPG/PNG/WebP — runs against that in-memory buffer. When the result is ready, we hand it back to you as a normal browser download. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is queued on a server, and nothing lingers after you close the tab.

The upside is privacy. The side benefit is speed: a 40-page PDF compresses in seconds because there is no upload or download waiting on your internet connection. And the same tools work offline once the page has loaded.

What we believe

Documents are personal. If a tool can run on your device, it should.
Free should mean free. No watermarks, no locked features behind a trial timer, no sudden “you have used 3 of 3 conversions this hour”.
Speed is a feature. A tool you have to babysit is a tool you stop using.
Accessibility is not optional. Every interface here is keyboard navigable, screen-reader labelled, and works on the phone in your pocket.

What we ship

The tools page lists everything we have released so far, grouped into convert (PDF ↔ Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, PNG, WebP), organize (merge, split, rotate, reorder, crop, resize), optimize (compress, repair, flatten), secure (protect, unlock, redact, sign), and intelligence (OCR scanned PDFs, extract tables, compare versions). New tools land regularly — subscribe on the blog if you want the release notes.

Enterprise and API

Teams who need on-premise deployment, single sign-on, audit logs, or a REST API for embedding PDF operations into their own product can talk to us at connect.cosmodex@gmail.com. There are separate pages for Enterprise and the developer API.

Who we are

Be My PDF is built by a small independent team in Bengaluru, India, with occasional contributions from open-source collaborators around the world. Our roots are in web performance, applied cryptography, and document engineering; we have shipped PDF pipelines for logistics, healthcare, and legal tech before turning our attention to consumer tools.

If you would like to work with us, check the careers page. If you spot a bug or have a feature request, please open a note at connect.cosmodex@gmail.com.

How we make money

The consumer tools are supported by unobtrusive Google AdSense placements and by the revenue from our enterprise plans. We do not sell your data. We do not sell access to your documents. Documents never leave your device unless a tool explicitly says otherwise, and even then only for the duration of the operation.