GrovePDF has 42 tools, and each one does one job. They all work the same way: open the tool, choose your file, pick a few options and download the result. There is no account to create, no watermark and no daily limit, and your files are processed inside your own browser, so they never leave your device.
This guide walks through every tool, grouped the way they appear on the All tools page. Each group also has its own, more detailed guide.
Organize pages
Put pages and files in the right order and shape. Read more in How to merge, split and organize PDF pages.
- Merge PDF combines 2 to 20 PDFs into one file. Pages are copied as they are, so nothing loses quality.
- Split PDF pulls a page range out, saves every page as its own file, or cuts a PDF into equal parts or sections.
- Organize PDF lets you drag pages into order, delete, rotate and add blank pages, even across several PDFs.
- Remove pages deletes blank, extra or private pages and keeps the rest exactly as they were.
- Rotate PDF turns sideways or upside-down pages the right way up, permanently and without any loss of quality.
Make files smaller and fix them
For email limits, upload forms and stubborn files. Details in How to compress a PDF under 1 MB.
- Compress PDF shrinks a PDF. Choose a level, or a target size such as 1 MB, and see the new size before downloading.
- Grayscale PDF turns a colour PDF black and white for cheaper printing, and usually makes it smaller too.
- Repair PDF rebuilds damaged PDFs that won't open and recovers as much as possible.
Convert from PDF
Get your content out of a PDF and into the format you need. See Convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and images.
- PDF to Word makes an editable .docx that keeps the original's fonts, sizes, colours and layout. Scanned PDFs work with OCR.
- PDF to Excel pulls tables into a spreadsheet, with amounts and percentages as real numbers.
- PDF to PowerPoint turns each page into a slide with editable text boxes.
- PDF to JPG saves pages as JPG images, or pulls out the pictures inside.
- PDF to PNG saves pages as sharp PNG pictures, with an optional see-through background.
- PDF to Markdown makes clean Markdown for notes, documentation and AI tools.
- PDF to Text saves the plain text of a PDF as a .txt file.
- PDF to PDF/A creates an archival PDF/A-2b copy, the format courts, libraries and governments ask for.
- Extract images saves every photo and logo in a PDF at its original quality.
Convert to PDF
Turn almost any document or picture into a PDF. See How to turn Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and web pages into PDF.
- Word to PDF converts .docx files with their headings, lists, tables, pictures, headers and footers.
- PowerPoint to PDF makes one page per slide, with backgrounds, shapes, pictures and tables.
- Excel to PDF prints every visible sheet with its formatting, and can fit wide sheets to the page.
- JPG to PDF combines up to 30 JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC images into one PDF.
- HEIC to PDF turns iPhone photos (HEIC) into a PDF, with no app.
- Camera Scanner scans paper with your phone or webcam camera into a clean, straightened PDF.
- Scan to PDF does the same for photos of documents you already took, from your gallery or computer.
- HTML to PDF converts a saved web page or HTML file, keeping its styles and pictures.
- CSV to PDF turns a CSV or TSV file into a neat, printable table.
Edit, sign and fill
Change what is on the page. See How to edit, sign and fill in a PDF for free.
- Edit PDF adds text, pictures, shapes and freehand drawings.
- Sign PDF places a drawn, typed or uploaded signature on the document.
- PDF Forms fills in forms, or turns any PDF into a fillable form, finding the blanks for you.
- Watermark stamps text or a logo over pages, at any angle and transparency.
- Add image to PDF puts a logo, stamp or photo on one page or on every page.
- Page numbers numbers pages in the style you choose, with the option to skip the cover.
- Crop PDF trims margins or keeps just part of a page.
- Resize PDF puts every page on A4, Letter, Legal, A3 or A5.
Security
Control who can open a file and what they can see. See PDF security: protect, unlock and redact.
- Protect PDF locks a PDF with a password using AES-256 encryption.
- Unlock PDF removes the password from a PDF you're allowed to open, or lifts printing and copying restrictions.
- Redact PDF permanently removes names, numbers or areas, not just covers them.
- Flatten PDF locks form answers, comments and stamps into the page so they can't be changed.
Scans and AI
Read, understand and compare documents. See OCR, summaries, translation and comparison.
- OCR PDF makes scanned PDFs searchable and selectable without changing how they look.
- AI Summarizer gives you the key points of a long PDF, written by AI that runs on your device.
- Translate PDF translates a PDF and keeps its layout.
- Compare PDF shows every word that changed between two versions.
Which tool should I use?
Not sure? Drop your file on the home page and GrovePDF suggests the tools that fit it. A few common jobs:
- A file is too big to email: Compress PDF with a target size.
- You need to change the text of a PDF: PDF to Word, edit in Word, then Word to PDF.
- A form needs your details and signature: PDF Forms, then Sign PDF.
- A scanned contract needs to be searchable: OCR PDF.
- You're sending something confidential: Redact PDF, then Protect PDF.