About PDFLime

Our Mission

PDFLime was created to provide powerful PDF manipulation tools that respect your privacy. In an era where most online tools upload your files to remote servers, we believe there's a better way.

Why PDFLime?

Traditional online PDF tools require you to upload your files to their servers. This raises several concerns:

• Privacy: Your sensitive documents are exposed to third parties
• Security: Files could be intercepted or stored without your knowledge
• Speed: Upload and download times add unnecessary delays
• Reliability: Requires internet connection and server availability

Our Solution

PDFLime processes everything locally in your browser using modern web technologies:

• WebAssembly: Near-native performance for PDF processing
• Web Workers: Parallel processing without freezing your browser
• Modern JavaScript: Efficient file handling and manipulation

Technology Stack

PDFLime is built with:

• Next.js 15 with App Router
• React 19
• TypeScript for type safety
• pdf-lib for PDF manipulation
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Radix UI for accessible components

Open Source

PDFLime is open source and available on GitHub. We believe in transparency and welcome contributions from the community.

Roadmap

We're continuously working to add more features:

• ✅ Merge PDFs
• ✅ Split PDFs
• ✅ Rotate pages
• 🚧 Compress PDFs
• 🚧 PDF to Image conversion
• 🚧 Extract text
• 🚧 Add watermarks
• 📋 OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
• 📋 Form filling
• 📋 Digital signatures

Support

PDFLime is free to use and always will be. If you find it useful, consider:

• Starring our GitHub repository
• Sharing PDFLime with others
• Contributing code or reporting issues