PDFForge Reader

Private local PDF reader and toolkit for Chrome. Read, merge, split, organize, convert, compress, and protect PDFs.

PDFForge Reader is a professional, local-first PDF reader and toolkit. It opens PDFs in a polished, Adobe-style workspace where you can actually read them, then gives you 20+ tools to get real work done. Every page render and every edit happens locally in your browser. Your files are never uploaded, there's no account to create, and nothing is tracked. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A REAL READER, NOT JUST A VIEWER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Open by drag & drop or file picker • Zoom, fit-width and fit-page, smooth page navigation • Page thumbnails and a live document-properties panel • Full-text search with in-page highlights • Rotate, print and download • Work with several PDFs at once in tabs • Command palette (Ctrl/Cmd-K) and keyboard shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 20+ TOOLS — ALL PROCESSED LOCALLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Organize — merge, split, extract pages, delete pages, reorder, rotate, reverse, insert blank pages Edit — add watermarks, page numbers, and edit document metadata Convert — image to PDF, PDF to image, text to PDF, extract text Secure — remove identifying metadata (encryption and more on the way) Optimize — compress to reduce file size Pick a tool, set your options, hit Run — the result downloads instantly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MADE YOURS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Light or dark theme (light by default) • English (default) and Spanish, switchable in one click • Clean, modern, distraction-free interface ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • No uploads — files are processed in your browser and never sent anywhere • No account and no sign-in • No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking • Recent files remember names only — never your file contents • The extension requests no host permissions and makes no network requests ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY PDFFORGE READER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most online PDF tools send your documents to a server. PDFForge Reader does the opposite: it keeps everything on your machine, so sensitive contracts, statements and records stay private — and it still works with no internet connection. Built with open-source PDF.js (Apache-2.0) and pdf-lib (MIT).