Productivity
PDFyre
Last updated 2026-08-16 · benchmark measured 2026-11-02 — deterministic & reproducible
Free browser-based PDF tools: OCR, merge, split, compress, and more.
PDFyre at a glance
PDFyre is a free, browser-based set of PDF tools (OCR, merge, split, compress, rotate, and image conversion) for students, professionals, and anyone who needs to edit PDFs without uploading files to a server.
Good for
- Making scanned documents, textbooks, lecture slides, or forms searchable and copy-pasteable with OCR
- Combining multiple PDFs into one file or splitting a PDF into separate page ranges
- Reducing the file size of scanned or image-heavy PDFs, or converting between PDFs and images
Pricing
Free forever, no account required.
Questions people ask
Do I need to create an account to use PDFyre?
No, PDFyre requires no account and you can start using the tools immediately.
Are my files uploaded to a server when I use PDFyre?
No, all processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript, and files are never uploaded to any server.
Does PDFyre add watermarks to the output files?
No, output files are clean with no PDFyre branding.
What languages does the OCR tool support?
The OCR tool supports over 100 languages, including English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, with multi-language options and word-level text alignment.
Is there a limit to the size of PDF I can process?
No, PDFyre has no file size limits since processing uses your own device's local memory and storage.
Written by Legit.Show from pdfyre.xyz on 2026-11-06. It does not change the score.
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Legit.Show scored PDFyre 76/100 on 2026-11-02, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/pdfyre-xyz/2026-11-02
Is PDFyre production-ready?
Legit.Show scores PDFyre 76 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on PDFyre (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 94/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 45/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 25/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 87/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 699 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Students · Professionals · Anyone needing PDF editing
Pricing
Free
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from pdfyre.xyz's own website on 2026-08-16.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-11-02.
Put together from public information, without PDFyre's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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