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pdfmergely

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About pdfmergely

Merge, split, compress, organize and protect PDFs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device , there is no upload endpoint at all. No servers, no sign-up, no watermarks. It even works offline after the first visit. Free.

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    Comment #48742854

    I appreciate the directness, and you are right. The design has not yet earned trust, and that is on where I am working in. For a tool people hand documents to, looking trustworthy …

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    Comment #48742832

    Ofc not the only one, and the expectation is reasonable. A repo is coming, and for a tool like this it arguably should have been there from the start. Thank you for the nudge.

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    Comment #48742826

    A fair question. There is no from scratch PDF engine here. It is @cantoo/pdf-lib, a maintained fork of pdf-lib, running client side in a Web Worker, with WebAssembly handling the h…

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    Comment #48742824

    Point well taken. I appreciate it. It is being worked on .

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    Comment #48742385

    Thank you

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    Comment #48730718

    Our merge is page-level, not form-aware. We copy the pages (including the visual appearance of form fields), but we don't merge the PDFs' AcroForm dictionaries. As a result, form f…

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    Comment #48729651

    A good point . open the Network tab" isn't a real answer for most people, and "trust me" isn't either. Two things that don't depend on either: (1) the offline test is something any…

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    Comment #48729527

    Fair point, I'll add an About/Contact page with who's behind it. It's a small solo project; there's no company entity yet, but also no account or server, so nothing of yours is col…

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    Author here. Quick note on how the "no upload" claim actually works, since it deserves scrutiny. There's no upload endpoint to send files to. When you pick a file, the browser hand…

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