Hub · PDF jobs
The daily PDF jobs, done inside your browser: your document is never uploaded, there is no account and no counter, and the sizes are printed exactly, before and after. Most of these jobs finish in well under a second on the bench, because the engine is a tidy open-source program (@cantoo/pdf-lib, on the credits page), not a queue on someone else's server.
The lead PDF job: pick a target, 200 KB, 500 KB, 2 MB or your own number, and the page works to land under it, printing the exact size it reached. If it cannot reach the target, it says so before you download.
Open the toolThe flagship preset for tight government and job portals, with the 200 KB target already set.
Open the toolAs many files as your device can hold, in your order. Pages are copied, not rebuilt, so nothing is re-encoded. On the bench, 25 files merged in 71 milliseconds and came out smaller than the biggest site's result on the same files.
Open the toolPull a page range out as one PDF, or take every page as its own file.
Open the toolScanned pages are read at 300 DPI into checkable text, plus a searchable PDF. On the standard test invoice the bench read 96% of characters correctly; check money amounts, because the reader can drop a decimal point, and the page tells you so.
Open the toolOne door stays shut on purpose: turning a PDF into a perfectly editable Word document is a job this workshop does not promise, because the honest version of it is "basic text, jumbled layout". A page that cannot do a job well says so, per the standing rules.