About PDF123
What this site is
PDF123 (pdf123.xyz), also known as PDF Toolbox, is a free web portal for common PDF tasks — merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, protect, and dozens of related utilities. People use the browser UI; developers can call the same operations through the documented REST API. The product focus is practical document processing with clear limits, not marketing fluff.
This site is operated as the PDF123 service at pdf123.xyz. It is a maintained product surface with its own branding, privacy policy, and terms — not an anonymous mirror of someone else's software and not a claim that every line of infrastructure is published as open source.
How tools and content are maintained
Each tool page maps to a real backend endpoint. When we add or change a tool, we update the catalog, the request fields shown in the UI, the long-form explanation on the page, and the API docs together so the browser path and the HTTP path stay aligned.
Editorial content on tool pages (how-to steps, FAQs, limits, privacy notes) is written per tool so pages stay distinguishable. Blog posts under Blog cover how PDF operations work in practice. Help and legal pages are revised when behavior or advertising disclosures change.
Files you upload are processed to fulfill your request and are not kept as a personal document library. Details of retention, cookies, and advertising partners are in the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
Who to contact
For product questions, abuse reports, privacy requests, or corrections to site content, email [email protected]. We read that inbox for this service. The same address appears on the Contact page.
If you need a contractual or compliance contact for a specific engagement, start with that email and describe what you need; we will route it.
What we do not claim
We do not claim to replace professional legal e-discovery suites, print-production RIPs, or certified archival workflows. Outputs are best-effort conversions and edits. Always keep your original files. Security-oriented tools (password remove, certificate signature remove, sanitize) exist for documents you already have a right to modify — not to bypass someone else's access controls.
Advertising may appear on content pages via Google AdSense. Personalized ads for EEA/UK/CH visitors require a certified CMP; until that is live from the AdSense account, we default toward non-personalized requests where we control the path. See File handling & privacy for the upload lifecycle in plain language.
Policies
- Terms of Service — acceptable use, including rules against processing documents you are not authorized to modify.
- Privacy Policy — how uploads, logs, and Google AdSense relate to your data.
- File handling & privacy — upload → process → respond → delete explained for visitors and reviewers.
- Help — how to use tools and what to do when something fails.