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Everything runs on your device, no account needed: your files never leave your browser. Only features marked AI go through our server, and the tool says so: AI Audio Transcription and the OCR's AI options.
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No upload, no queue, no waiting. Processing happens on your device, so you get your file back the moment it's ready.
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Output preserves fonts, tables, links, and structure - the same fidelity you'd expect from desktop software.
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After your first visit, every free tool keeps working with no internet. Install RectoPDF as an app for one-tap access.
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Merge, split, reorder and rotate pages.
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Shrink and repair your PDFs.
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From Word, Excel, images and more.
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Blog →AI audio transcription to PDF: turn meetings, lectures and interviews into a clean, readable transcript
Transcribe audio to text with AI: upload a recording and get back a formatted transcript PDF - with automatic language detection, multilingual recordings split into labelled tracks, optional timestamps, and 2 free hours of transcription every month.
OCR that stays on your device: turn scans into editable documents - and even edit the scan itself
Most OCR tools upload your scan to a server and hand you back a wall of plain text. Here's how on-device OCR extracts the text from a scanned PDF or photo, lets you fix it, and can even rewrite the text directly on the original scan - logos, stamps and layout intact.
How to convert a PDF into an editable PowerPoint (and what actually survives)
Turning a PDF back into editable slides is harder than the reverse. Here's how the conversion works, the difference between a faithful copy and an editable rebuild, and exactly what comes through clean versus what doesn't.