ViewOnly PDF Saver

Save view-only document previews as high-fidelity PDF documents or ZIP image archives with custom page selection.

ViewOnly PDF & ZIP Saver is a powerful, privacy-first browser extension that allows you to capture view-only document previews and web images, converting them into high-fidelity PDF files or organized ZIP archives directly in your browser. Whether you need a single consolidated PDF document or individual uncompressed original image files with detailed alt-text audit reports, ViewOnly PDF & ZIP Saver provides an effortless, on-device workflow with zero cloud uploads. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 Dual Export Formats (PDF & ZIP) • Merged PDF: Compiles all document pages into a crisp, unified, high-fidelity PDF file. • ZIP Archive: Extracts and saves individual original-quality image files (.jpg, .png, .webp, .avif, .svg) into a neatly organized ZIP folder. ⚡ 1-Click Auto Download All • Skip the preview gallery entirely with one click. • Automatically crawls multi-page virtualized documents and downloads the complete PDF or ZIP instantly. • Optional toggle to remember your preference for direct auto-downloading every time. 🎯 Interactive Page Selection & Pagination • Visual thumbnail gallery displaying page numbers, dimensions, and image formats. • Select or deselect specific pages with ease, or use "Select All" / "Clear" to download only the exact pages you need. • Clean 2x2 paginated layout with quick navigation. 🔍 Original Master Quality & Resolution Extraction • Intelligent srcset parser automatically selects the highest-resolution master images (e.g. 2000px+ instead of downscaled mobile thumbnails). • Strips thumbnail resize filters and downscaling parameters from WordPress, Shopify, Google Photos, Wikimedia, and Cloudinary. • Inspects parent links and lightbox galleries to retrieve uncompressed original source photos. 🏷️ Image Analysis & Audit Reports (Inside ZIP) • Extracts alt text, aria labels, and sequential numbering (#1, #2...). • Automatically names files with descriptive alt-text slugs (e.g., document_001_project_diagram.jpg). • Bundles companion "image_analysis.txt" and structured "metadata.json" audit reports listing original URLs, dimensions, and descriptions. ⏱️ Customizable Auto-Scroll Pace • Adjust crawler delays (Fast: 120ms, Normal: 240ms, Slow: 450ms) to ensure heavy, high-res virtualized readers load every page flawlessly. 🔒 100% Private & On-Device Processing • All processing, PDF generation, and ZIP compression happens entirely on your local machine. • No account or registration required. • Zero data or document images are ever sent to external cloud servers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Open your document preview or webpage in your browser. 2. Click the ViewOnly PDF & ZIP Saver extension icon. 3. Choose your desired format: "PDF Document" or "ZIP Archive". 4. Choose your workflow: • Click "1-Click Auto Download All Pages" to download immediately without preview. • Or click "Auto-Scroll & Preview Pages" to select specific pages before downloading. 5. Your high-fidelity document or ZIP archive is saved directly to your computer! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📄 OUTPUT EXPLANATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • PDF Output: An image-based, high-fidelity document preserving the exact visual layout, typography, and page appearance of the original viewer. • ZIP Output: Contains authentic, uncompressed image files in their original formats (PNG, WebP, JPEG, SVG, AVIF), complete with descriptive file names, sequential numbers, and an automated audit summary report. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY & SECURITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ViewOnly PDF & ZIP Saver is engineered with a strict privacy-first architecture: • 100% client-side execution using native browser technologies. • Preserves authenticated session cookies for authorized documents without transmitting credentials. • No user tracking, no third-party analytics on document content, and no external server uploads. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ DISCLAIMER & COMPLIANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ViewOnly PDF & ZIP Saver is an independent browser extension designed for personal productivity and offline document archiving. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC, Google Drive, or any third-party document hosting platform. Users are responsible for ensuring that their use of this extension complies with all applicable copyright laws, website terms of service, and document owner permissions. ====================================================================== WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.4.0 (For the Release Notes field) ====================================================================== - ⚡ 1-Click Auto Download All: Bypass the pagination gallery and download entire documents in one step. - 📦 Dual Export Formats: Choose between merged high-fidelity PDF documents or ZIP image collections. - 🎯 Paginated Page Selection: Interactive page thumbnails with individual select/deselect checkboxes. - 🔍 Original Full-Resolution Extraction: Automatic srcset parsing and CDN resize un-stripping for maximum image quality. - 🏷️ Website Image Analysis & Audit: Extracts alt text, sequential numbering, and generates companion image_analysis.txt and metadata.json audit reports. - 🛡️ Enhanced PDF Compatibility Engine: 100% fault-tolerant canvas baseline JPEG encoding prevents download errors on complex documents. ====================================================================== PERMISSION JUSTIFICATIONS (For the Privacy Practices tab) ====================================================================== activeTab: Used only when the user explicitly clicks the extension action icon to interact with the currently viewed document preview tab. scripting: Injects the client-side jsPDF compiler and document extraction script into the user's active tab upon clicking download or scan. declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess: Used temporarily during image extraction to set appropriate Referer and Origin headers for image requests so view-only CDN document previews load without hotlink blocking. The session rule is cleared immediately after retrieval. Host Permissions (<all_urls>): Allows the extension service worker to fetch cross-origin document preview images from diverse CDN hosts and document viewer domains that would otherwise taint the in-page canvas. Single Purpose Description: ViewOnly PDF & ZIP Saver has a single purpose: it captures view-only document preview images from the active webpage and compiles them into a clean, downloadable PDF file or a ZIP image archive locally in the browser with custom page selection.