Change log
New tools, and fixes you would notice, newest first. If there is a tool you want, the feedback link at the foot of every page reaches us, and several entries below started that way.
- New: Unlock PDF, asked for by a visitor. Type the password once and save the PDF without it, several files at a time; print and copy restrictions come off with no password at all. Nothing is uploaded, not even the password.
- Fixed in Protect PDF: about one password in forty produced a file that other readers, Acrobat and Poppler among them, would not open with the right password. Found by testing the new unlock tool against an independent implementation. A file protected here before 19 September that will not open elsewhere can still be opened with Unlock PDF, using its password, and protected again.
- Fixed in merge, split, reorder and the other PDF tools: numbers in a copied document were rounded to six decimal places, which made text in some fonts render a fraction too large.
- New: Extract Text From a PDF, asked for by a visitor in the first message the feedback form ever received. Copy the text or save it as a file. Thai comes out as it was typed, including from Word and Excel files that other tools turn into "กาหนด" and "มหำชน".
- Fixed in every PDF tool: some producers pad compressed data past its end, and those parts of a file were read as empty. They now read in full.
- Compress PDF shows a progress bar, because a run that takes twenty seconds looked as if it had stopped.
- Compress PDF now publishes where its size promise stops, measured on 100 MB files: a 50-page scan reaches 2 MB, a 220-page scan cannot, and the page tells you the smallest it managed instead of pretending.
- A search box on the home page. With fifty tools, scrolling was the only way to find one.
- New games: sudoku with one answer and no guessing, a sliding puzzle that never deals an unsolvable board, and solitaire.
- New: a games section, with Snake, 2048, Minesweeper and Tetris. They work with a Thai keyboard layout switched on.
Snake · 2048 · Minesweeper · Tetris
- Watermark PDF: the watermark is now as large as the size you choose, turns to any angle, and the preview turns the same way the PDF does.
- New: a spinning wheel, a random picker and a random number generator, all drawing from the browser's cryptographic randomness.
- The site was checked with its own accessibility tools, and what they found was fixed.
Spin the wheel · Random name picker · Random number generator
- New: Reorder PDF pages, asked for by a visitor. Drag the pages, or use the arrows from a keyboard or a phone.
- New: an accessibility group, with a contrast checker, a colour-vision simulator, a readability score, a PDF accessibility checker and a flashing-content checker.
- New: an Enigma machine you can watch, classic ciphers, text encryption, Morse code with sound, and a number base converter.
- Fixed in every PDF tool: encrypted PDFs with no open password, such as bank statements and government forms, were refused. They now open, as they do in every reader.
Reorder PDF pages · PDF accessibility checker · Contrast checker · Flashing content checker · Enigma machine
- LightUtils opens: file tools that run in your browser and never upload, in English and Thai.
- Many files at once: crop, watermark and compress a batch in one go, and HEIC photos from iPhones open wherever the browser can read them.