About

OzPDF is a set of PDF tools built around one idea: most of what people need to do to a PDF does not require a server, and the ones that do not should not use one.

It is built in Australia, and that is not just a flag on the page. If you work in health, law, accounting or government here, you probably cannot send a client file to an overseas server without thinking about it first — and most free PDF tools are exactly that: an upload to a machine in a country you did not choose, run by a company whose privacy policy you did not read.

The tools on this site that run in your browser sidestep the question completely. There is no jurisdiction to worry about, because the document never travels. For the handful that genuinely cannot work that way, we say so on the page, in the same place and the same style, and the file is deleted within two hours.

Merging, splitting, rotating, reordering, watermarking, adding page numbers, converting images — all of that is structural work on a file format, and every browser made in the last five years can do it. Doing it on a server is a habit inherited from when browsers could not, not a technical requirement.

What that means for you

When a tool here says it runs in your browser, your file genuinely never leaves your device. You do not have to take that on faith: open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use the tool. You will see no request carrying your document.

Some tools cannot work this way. OCR needs Tesseract, converting Word documents needs LibreOffice, and heavy image recompression needs Ghostscript — none of which run usefully in a browser yet. Those tools upload, and they say so on the page, in the same place and the same style as the ones that do not. We would rather tell you plainly than blur the difference. Files handled that way are deleted from ozpdf.com.au two hours after processing.

Who makes this

It is built and maintained by a small team. If something is broken, wrong, or missing, email hello@ozpdf.com.au and a person will read it.

What it costs

Nothing, and there is no account to create. There is no paid tier holding back a feature, no watermark on the output, and no email wall in front of a download. The limits on each page — file sizes, how many files at once — are there because browsers have finite memory, not because a subscription lifts them.