Every file you touch here stays on your machine.
PDF, image, developer, SEO, text, student and business tools — all free, all entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no server ever sees your data.
The toolset
Focused tools covering the everyday PDF work — pick one to get started, no account needed.
How this actually works
Each tool runs entirely with JavaScript already loaded in this page — PDF tools via pdf-lib and pdf.js, image tools via the browser's native Canvas API, and everything else with plain JavaScript. Your files or input are read into browser memory, processed, and handed back as a download or copyable result. This page itself is served by a small Laravel route; Laravel never sees your files either. The only backend in use is Supabase, and only for two optional things: signing in with a magic link, and — only if you're signed in — a log of which tool you ran and when. Two things have real limits worth knowing up front: Compress PDF flattens each page to a re-encoded image (great for scan-heavy PDFs, not ideal if you need selectable text after), and Word/Excel/PowerPoint ⇄ PDF conversion genuinely requires a server-side rendering engine, so it isn't included here — this build only ships tools that can honestly run client-side.
Questions people actually ask
What formats of QR code can it read?
Standard QR codes of any content type — URLs, plain text, Wi-Fi strings, vCards, and anything else encoded as a QR code, since decoding just recovers the raw text regardless of what it represents.
Why did it say no QR code was found?
Usually image quality — try a clearer, higher-resolution, well-lit photo with the QR code taking up a reasonable portion of the frame and not too blurry or at a sharp angle.
Can I scan using my camera directly, or only upload a photo?
Upload a photo or screenshot — on mobile, choosing "take photo" from the upload step effectively uses your camera, but there's no live continuous camera-scanning mode in this version.
Does it work on a photo with multiple QR codes?
It decodes the first one it finds — for multiple distinct codes, crop or photograph them separately.
What if the decoded content is a URL?
It's shown as plain text, exactly as encoded — nothing is automatically opened or visited, so you can review it before deciding to use it.
Can I copy the result?
Yes — a Copy to clipboard button sits next to the decoded text.
Does this work on a damaged or partially obscured QR code?
QR codes have built-in error correction and can often still decode with minor damage, but a significantly obscured or low-contrast code may fail — same limitation any QR scanner has.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No — decoding happens entirely in your browser using the jsQR library, loaded once from a public CDN; your image itself is never uploaded.
Is this really free, and is there a file size limit?
Yes — no account, no paywall. Since processing happens in your browser's memory rather than uploading anywhere, the practical limit is your device's available RAM, not a server quota. Very large files (500+ pages) may run slower, especially for Compress and PDF→JPG.
Does anything about my file get sent anywhere?
No. Every tool runs with pdf-lib/pdf.js loaded in this page; your file is read into browser memory and never leaves it. The only network call this app makes for your account is Supabase auth — and that only stores which tool you ran and when, never file content.
Why isn't Word/Excel/PowerPoint → PDF included?
Converting Office formats accurately needs a real rendering engine (what Word or LibreOffice use internally) — no browser library does this reliably. Rather than ship a broken version, it's left out.
Does TechDriven Tools have OCR (text recognition)?
Yes — OCR PDF recognizes text in scanned or photographed pages using Tesseract.js, running entirely on your device, and gives you a searchable PDF or a plain text file. Nothing is uploaded for this either.
Can I use this without an internet connection?
Once the page and its libraries have loaded once, yes — the tools themselves need no network access. Signing in and viewing history do require a connection, since those talk to Supabase.
What happens to the "history" if I sign in?
Only a row per tool run — the tool's name and a timestamp. No filename, no file content, ever. You can see the full list any time via the History button.
Are the non-PDF utilities (password generator, JSON formatter, etc.) private too?
Yes — same rule as the PDF tools. Word Counter, Case Converter, Password Generator, UUID Generator, Base64, Hash Generator, JSON Formatter and JWT Decoder all run with plain JavaScript already loaded in this page; nothing you type or paste is sent anywhere.