Pagely — Merge PDF, Split, Compress, Sign

You had six scanned pages and needed them as one file, so you searched for
"merge PDF", uploaded a signed contract to a website you had never heard of,
waited, downloaded it back — and then noticed the free tier only takes three
files at a time.

Pagely opens on a grid of the seven things people actually come looking for —
Merge, Split, Compress, Organise, Rotate, Extract, Sign — and every one of them
lands in the same page editor, so you are never stuck in the wrong tool.

Pagely is that job without the upload. It is a Chrome extension, it runs on your
own machine, and the documents never touch a server, because there is no server.

★ MERGE
Drop several PDFs in at once. Every page from every file lands in one grid, in
order, ready to save as a single document. No file count limit, no daily quota.

★ SPLIT
Click the scissors between any two pages to cut the document there, or split
every N pages in one go. The parts come back as one ZIP, numbered so they sort
correctly.

★ REORDER, ROTATE, DELETE
Every page is a card with a real preview. Drag them into the order you want.
Turn the ones that were scanned sideways. Select "1-3, 7, 12-" and delete the
blanks. Shift-click for a range, odd/even for the pages a duplex scanner got
wrong.

★ EXTRACT
Select the pages you want and keep only those — a two-page extract from a
90-page report, without a single upload.

★ SIGN
Draw your signature with a mouse or a trackpad, type it in a handwriting face, or
upload a photo of the one you signed on paper — Pagely lifts it off the paper and
makes the background transparent. Then click where it goes, drag it into place,
and put it on one page or all of them. Your signature is saved on your own
machine so you never draw it twice, and it is never sent anywhere. (It is a
stamp, like signing a printed page — not a certificate-backed digital signature.)

★ COMPRESS — properly
Most "PDF compressors" flatten every page into a picture, which makes the file
smaller and destroys your ability to select, search or copy a word of it.
Pagely does the opposite: it finds the *bitmaps* inside the document — the scan,
the phone photo, the screenshot pasted into a report — and re-encodes only those,
at a quality you choose. Text stays text. Links stay links. A scanned page
typically drops by half or better.

★ IT REALLY IS LOCAL
No host permissions. No content scripts. No account. No network code of any kind
— pull the plug on your Wi-Fi and Pagely works exactly the same. The one
permission it asks for, "storage", is where your compression level and file-name
pattern are kept.

★ WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
Password-protected PDFs are refused rather than opened, because unlocking them
would mean handling a credential Pagely has no business holding. Save an
unlocked copy from your PDF reader first.

Free, no ads, no upsell.