Every page, in one list.

Novus PDF Studio

Home: the twelve browser-local PDF tools, the fill-and-sign editor, and how local processing keeps documents on your device.

PDF Editor

Fill, sign, highlight, white-out, and export any PDF. An AI scan detects form fields (including values already filled in); manual tools cover everything the scan cannot. Password-protected files open with your password, locally.

Sign a PDF

Draw an electronic signature and place it on any PDF in the browser — with the distinction between an electronic signature (what this does) and a certificate-backed digital signature (what it cannot do) stated up front, plus the eight questions people actually search for.

Create a PDF

Build a PDF from a blank page: paper size, orientation and per-edge margins, headings and paragraphs, measured tables, vector boxes and lines, page numbering, and 8 starting templates. Exports selectable text in the browser.

About

Why the whole product runs in the browser, how a free advertising-funded model works without a paid tier, what it deliberately does not do, and who builds it in London, Ontario.

Features

Every capability in one place — the standalone tools, the editor's fill, sign, mark, highlight and erase workflows — with explicit limits, including recoverable Cover mode and the document-structure trade-offs of page-rasterizing Remove mode.

Tool map

A complete index of every page on the site, generated from the same route registry as the sitemap so it cannot drift: tools, editor, guides, tutorials, FAQs, articles, support and legal.

PDF tools hub

All twelve single-purpose PDF tools, a which-tool-for-which-job guide, size and format limits, and what happens to a file while it is processed.

Merge PDF files

Combine and reorder PDF pages into one document, free and entirely in your browser. Preview every page before merging and download instantly — no uploads, accounts, or watermarks.

Split and extract PDF pages

Extract exact pages or ranges from a PDF free in your browser — click pages in the preview or type ranges like 1-3,5. Download one combined PDF or separate files in a ZIP. No uploads.

Organize PDF pages

Reorder, rotate, duplicate, and delete PDF pages visually — free, in your browser, with drag-and-drop thumbnails. The exported PDF matches exactly what you see. No uploads or accounts.

Rotate PDF pages

Rotate PDF pages 90° left or right or a full 180° — every page, odd/even pages, typed ranges, or pages you click. Free, browser-local, lossless. No uploads or watermarks.

Add PDF page numbers

Stamp page numbers onto a PDF free in your browser — choose the corner, format (1, Page 1, 1 of N), starting number, size, margin, and color, with a live preview on every page. No uploads.

Password protect a PDF

Password-protect a PDF with real AES-256 encryption, free and fully in your browser — set open and owner passwords and viewer permissions for printing, copying, and editing. Passwords never leave your device.

Unlock a PDF

Remove password protection from a PDF you're authorized to modify — free, in your browser, with the password used only in memory. The unlocked copy is verified to open without credentials.

Compress and optimize a PDF

Compress a PDF locally with lossless structural cleanup or an optional raster mode with explicit DPI and quality controls. No upload, account, or watermark.

Flatten PDF form fields

Flatten PDF form fields locally by baking their current appearances into the page. Create a stable sharing copy without uploading the document.

Convert PDF pages to images

Convert each PDF page to PNG or JPEG locally, choose output DPI and quality, and download a single image or ZIP without uploading the file.

Convert images to a PDF

Combine PNG and JPEG images into one ordered PDF locally. Choose automatic, A4, or Letter pages plus contain or cover fitting.

Recognize text in a scanned PDF

Run local OCR on scanned PDF pages in English, French, or Spanish and add a searchable invisible text layer without uploading the document.

How it works

The upload → scan → refine → export workflow, and what runs where.

Learn centre

Every guide, mini tutorial, shortcut, FAQ answer and workflow step in one list, filtered by the task you are doing, how familiar you are, and the kind of help you want.

Guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs — creating a PDF from a blank page, building a form people can fill in, the power tools, government forms, signing and exporting, clean highlighting and erasing, fixing AI scan misses, and installing for offline use — each with the reason it exists and the mistake to avoid.

Mini tutorials

Short task walkthroughs (15–60 seconds each) covering all twelve tools, every editor action, and every job in the creation zone — page setup, blocks, images, rules, numbering and export — most carrying a note on the gotcha behind the steps.

FAQ

Answers on privacy, encryption, the AI scan, exports, file sizes, browser support, building a PDF from scratch — including what the creation zone cannot do yet — and the free advertising-funded model.

Search

Search every page at once — the PDF tools, guides, tutorials, FAQ and articles — against an index built at deploy time and queried entirely in the browser.

Changelog

Every shipped release, newest first, grouped into new / improved / fixed.

Contact

pdf@novusstreamsolutions.com — response times by request type, what to include in a bug report for each tool, and what support can and cannot do given zero server-side access to your files.

Accessibility

Keyboard operation, screen-reader support, contrast and reduced-motion commitments against WCAG 2.2 AA — plus an honest list of the barriers that remain, including untagged exports and scanned-image PDFs.

Security

Local-only processing, AES-256 encryption applied in the browser, the difference between enforced encryption and advisory permission flags, why erasing is not redaction, and how to report a vulnerability.

Editorial policy

How the Novus Stream Solutions Editorial Team verifies product claims, uses primary sources, discloses AI assistance, records substantive revisions, organizes topic clusters, and handles corrections.

Press kit

Boilerplate at three lengths, verified product facts, brand mark and colours, and the claims we ask writers not to make — including calling the erase tool redaction.

Status

What can actually fail when every tool runs in your browser: site delivery is the only service on our side, and a self-check list maps common symptoms to where the fault really is.

Privacy policy

Documents never leave the device. Optional Save on this device sessions use local IndexedDB only after a user action and never store passwords; Google Analytics is consent-gated and Google AdSense is not currently loaded.

Terms of use

Acceptable use, the authorized-document rule for the unlock tool, and the verify-before-submission expectation.

Cookie preferences

Every first-party cookie, local-storage key, service-worker cache and opt-in IndexedDB document store the site uses, plus analytics and advertising controls.