Since then, I’ve added a set of image tools that also run entirely client-side:
- Image compress, resize, crop, rotate, and format conversion
- Image → PDF and mixed image + PDF workflows
- Basic photo editing (text, filters, watermarks)
- Upscaling and background removal
- HTML/URL → image capture and face blurring
Everything runs locally in the browser (Canvas, WASM).
No backend, no uploads, no tracking.
For context, the original post saw ~9.5k visitors over two weeks.
Average visit duration was ~40s, which fits the single-task nature of the tools.
Posting as a progress update rather than a re-launch.
Image-only PDFs (scans):
These are the hardest case. If a PDF is basically high-res images (like iPhone scans), browser-based tools have limits compared to ImageMagick, which has much finer control over resampling and JPEG compression. Ghostscript-style pipelines help, but ImageMagick often wins if you’re willing to discard more detail. Improving this is on the roadmap, but it’s genuinely tough in-browser.
PDF forms:
Adobe doesn’t own forms, but editable PDF forms are extremely complex and poorly standardized. Many free tools avoid true form editing because it’s easy to break files. That’s why I haven’t enabled it yet—possible, just time-consuming and error-prone.
Everything runs locally in the browser (Canvas, WASM). No backend, no uploads, no tracking.
For context, the original post saw ~9.5k visitors over two weeks.
Average visit duration was ~40s, which fits the single-task nature of the tools.
Posting as a progress update rather than a re-launch.