Office chores, sorted.
Light, fast, simple: no installs, no sign-up, no waiting for uploads. One tool does one job — right in your browser.
The family
Why Reeff
Open and go
No installs and no sign-up. The same experience on your phone, tablet and desktop.
No queue
Files are processed on your own device, so there is nothing to upload and no quota wall to hit.
Straight answers
We label what runs locally and what needs the internet. No dark patterns, no fake countdowns.
Everything in Reeff.PDF
Twelve tools, all free, all running in your browser.
What people use it for
The tools are deliberately small, so most sessions last two minutes and end with a download. Four jobs come up far more often than the rest:
- Combining a stack of invoices or scanned receipts into one file before it goes to an accountant, instead of attaching eleven separate PDFs.
- Pulling three pages out of a 200-page contract for someone who only needs those three — without sending the other 197.
- Rotating and cropping a phone scan that came out sideways with a thumb in the corner, so the printed version looks like a document and not a photo of one.
- Turning a design export into images for a slide deck, or a folder of photos into one A4 PDF that a printer will accept.
None of those jobs need an account, and none of them need the file to travel anywhere. That is the whole design constraint: if a chore can be finished on your own device, it should be, because then there is no upload, no queue and no copy of your document sitting on someone else's disk.
How it works
01Open the tool you need
Twelve tools live in Reeff.PDF. Every page loads straight into the interface — no sign-in wall, no “start free trial” step, no file dialog that opens before you can see what the tool does.
02Add your file
The document is read into your browser's memory on your machine. There is no server component behind the tools, so there is nothing to upload to and no request that carries your file.
03Download the result
Processing happens locally and the output is saved as a new file. Your original is never modified or replaced, which also means you can always start again from the same input.
The mechanics behind that — which library edits the page tree, which one renders pixels, and a four-step test you can run in DevTools to confirm no upload happens — are written out on the on-device page rather than summarised here.
What Reeff is not
There is no OCR, no cloud storage, no account and no batch automation, and those gaps are decisions rather than an unfinished roadmap. Scanned documents have no text layer, and making one needs a model far larger than the page you are reading; keeping a copy of your files would mean owning a liability and writing a privacy paragraph we would rather not have to write.
If your job genuinely needs a server — extracting text from 5,000 scans, syncing a folder across devices, running a script over an archive — a server-side service is the right tool, and we will say so instead of pretending otherwise. What we will not do is bolt those features on quietly while still claiming that nothing ever leaves your device.
Guides
Merging PDFs without losing bookmarks, links or page size
A merge copies pages, not the document around them. What survives the page copy, what silently disappears, and how to check your finished file in under a minute.
6 November 2026 · 7 min readOrganise pagesSplitting a 300-page PDF into chapters without re-compressing it
A split copies pages into new documents, so nothing is re-encoded — but the total size grows, the outline disappears and the printed page numbers stop matching. How to cut a long file so each part is usable on its own.
6 November 2026 · 6 min readConvert and compressWhy “compress PDF” barely shrinks your file — and what actually does
Most PDFs are already compressed, so a lossless pass saves a few percent. The lever that works is pixels: DPI, JPEG quality and colour. What each level of the tool really does, with the arithmetic behind it.
6 November 2026 · 6 min readQuestions people actually ask
Short answers, no marketing. Every one of them is checked against how the tools behave today.
Is Reeff.PDF really free?
Yes. All twelve tools are free and unlimited: no account, no watermark, no page cap and no file-size cap imposed by us. Tools that run in your browser cost us nothing per file, so there is no quota to protect.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. PDF processing happens inside your browser, and the tools have no server component. You can confirm it yourself: open DevTools, watch the Network tab while you process a file, and you will see no request whose body is your document.
Do I need to create an account?
No, and there is no account system to create. Nothing in the toolkit needs a login, so asking for an email address would only exist to build a list.
Is there a file size limit?
There is no cap from us. The real limit is your device's memory and your browser: a merge has to hold the finished document in memory before the download starts, and rendering a page to an image costs roughly 8 MB of bitmap for an A4 page at 150 DPI. Very large scans can therefore fail on a phone and succeed on a laptop.
Does it work on a phone or tablet?
Yes — same interface, same tools, nothing to install. Phones have less memory, so a 300-page scan that is fine on a laptop may run out of room on a phone. Lower the page count or move to a desktop for jobs that large.
Why did compression barely shrink my file?
Because most text PDFs are already compressed. The lossless level repacks the file structure, which typically saves a few percent, or a few hundred kilobytes on files made by older software. Shrinking a scan properly means re-encoding pages as images, which does make the file much smaller — and removes the text layer, so the document stops being searchable.
Can Reeff read text out of a scanned PDF?
No. OCR needs a model far bigger than the whole toolkit, and a small model produces text nobody trusts. If you need searchable text from a scan, use a dedicated OCR service; we would rather leave the gap visible than hide a poor implementation behind it.
Do you keep a copy of my document?
No copy exists, because the file never reaches us. The trade-off is that we cannot recover anything: if a tab crashes mid-job, or the output is overwritten, there is nothing on our side to restore. Keep your original until you have checked the result.
Which browsers are supported?
Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on desktop, and the same browsers on iOS and Android. Older browsers, and “desktop mode” on a phone, account for most reported problems — the tools rely on APIs those builds do not have.
How is Reeff paid for?
The local tools are free and unlimited; any future feature that needs a server — cloud OCR, invoice verification — is planned as pay-as-you-go rather than a metered free tier. Some pages on the toolkit carry advertising. There are no countdown timers, and no free feature gets quietly moved behind a payment.
Which tool should we build next?
Leave your email and pick the one you need. We only use it to tell you when it ships.