I rebuilt my PDF workflow so a file never has to leave my laptop

QiuLiang — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:47:26 +0000

For years my "PDF workflow" meant: open a free website, upload the file,
pray it
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wasn't a bank statement, download the result. I never liked it. So I built
the thing
I wanted.
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wezzik.com is 16 PDF tools that all run in the browser. Merge, split,
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rotate,
compress to an exact size, convert to Word/Excel/Image, OCR, even an AI
summary.
The part that matters: nothing is uploaded. Open DevTools while you
process a 50MB
file and the Network tab stays empty.
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It's static HTML and JS, pdf-lib and pdf.js doing the heavy lifting,
Tesseract for
to, which
OCR, hosted on Vercel. No backend means there's nothing to send your file
is the only privacy guarantee that actually holds.
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If you process PDFs with any regularity, give it a try. And if there's a
tool missing
that fits the local-only model, tell me, I'll build .

A PDF toolkit that runs 100% in the browser, no upload, no signup

QiuLiang — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:40:49 +0000

DEV Community: QiuLiang

I rebuilt my PDF workflow so a file never has to leave my laptop

A PDF toolkit that runs 100% in the browser, no upload, no signup