For years, whenever I needed to merge two PDFs or compress a file to upload to a government portal, I would Google "compress PDF", click the first result, and inevitably hit a paywall.
"You have reached your 2 free files per day limit."
Worse, I was uploading sensitive documents—tax returns, medical records, and NDAs—to random servers in God-knows-where just to strip out some heavy images.
I decided to build an alternative. I wanted it to be 100% free, have absolutely no daily limits, and most importantly: zero server uploads.
Here is how we built PDF Pro using Next.js and WebAssembly to process PDFs entirely natively inside the user's browser.
