PDF is one of the most used formats for getting something to execute when an attachment is opened. Most modern readers block these mechanisms, but not all do, and a document that circulates eventually meets a permissive reader.
How it works
Drop your file on the page, or click to pick it from your folders.
Start the job. It runs inside your browser: nothing is sent to a server.
Download the result. No account, no watermark, no queue.
When this really helps
Clean a document you received
Before opening it on a sensitive machine or passing it on.
Prepare a distribution
Do not forward to your recipients what was forwarded to you.
Archive soundly
A document collection without executable code ages better.
What the conversion keeps, and what it loses
Working inside a browser comes with limits a hosted service does not have. Here they are in plain words, so you know what to expect before you start.
What is kept
- All visible content, unchanged
- Selectable text
- Images and layout
- Ordinary hyperlinks
What is not carried over
- Embedded JavaScript
- Files attached to the document
- The action fired on opening
- Automatic actions set on pages
Worth knowing about the format
The tool removes the JavaScript and EmbeddedFiles entries from the catalogue, the open action, and the automatic actions on pages. It makes no claim to analyse content: this is not an antivirus, it is the removal of the execution mechanisms the format provides.
Not the right tool?
- Clean the metadata — Pour retirer aussi ce que le fichier révèle de son auteur.
- Flatten a PDF — Pour figer en plus les champs de formulaire.
- Repair a PDF — Si le document refuse de s'ouvrir après coup.
Why it's free
Online converters receive your file on their servers, process it, then promise to delete it. Every document costs them computing time: that is why they charge, and why they cap file sizes.
Here, the work happens on your own computer. The page contains no server code: your document cannot be received, because it is never sent. So there is nothing to bill, nothing to cap, and nothing to delete afterwards. Cut your connection once the page has loaded — everything keeps working.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an antivirus?
No, and it should not be mistaken for one. It removes the execution mechanisms PDF provides — JavaScript, attachments, automatic actions. It does not analyse content and will not detect a malicious image.
Does the document stay identical?
Visually, entirely. Only what was executable or attached disappears.
How do I know whether my PDF carried anything?
The report says so, item by item. If it carried nothing, the tool tells you that too rather than implying a clean-up happened.
Other tools
Edit the text in a PDF — Fix a line that is already written, even on a scanned document. This is the feature other services charge for, and the natural starting point when you need to retouch before converting.