Great Scott Labs

7 tools · free forever

Document & PDF tools

Every one runs inside your browser, on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no account to make and no privacy policy to read.


The PDF tools read, they do not rewrite

Everything here either pulls something out of a document or builds a simple one from scratch. Nothing modifies an existing PDF in place, and that line is deliberate.

The split is: does this operation change the file? Converting a PDF to images or to text does not. Reordering pages, editing content, filling and flattening forms, merging an existing document — those do, and they belong in a real editor rather than a single-page web tool pretending to be one.

Two things you will not find here

PDF to Word is the highest-traffic PDF search there is, and it is missing on purpose. Doing it properly means reconstructing layout from visual position — working out that these characters were a table and those were a two-column flow — and a bad one produces a document that is worse than retyping. We would rather have no tool than a tool that wastes an hour.

OCR is the same story from the other end. If a scanned PDF comes back empty from the text extractor, that is a correct report that there were no characters in it, not a failure. Reading pictures of words is a genuinely different problem.

Our own software

Dictate it instead of typing it

Hold a key, say the sentence, and the words land in whatever Windows window you were already in. Runs on your own PC — no account, no upload, nothing to renew.

$79 launch price · $99 regular · buy once
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