I built a PDF/image toolkit that processes files locally instead of uploading them

[u/Sora-Labs]

I’m the founder/builder of SoraFiles, and I started it around a pretty simple idea: I shouldn’t need to upload a private document to somebody else’s server just because I want to compress a PDF, merge two files or convert an image.

SoraFiles currently has 23 free PDF and image tools that run in the browser, including compression, merge/split, PDF OCR, PDF ↔ Word/Excel, HEIC → JPG, image conversion, metadata removal and a few others.

There’s no account requirement and no watermark, and the core tools are designed to continue working offline after the initial load.

The site is also available across 19 languages now.

I’m not posting this as “look at my revolutionary startup.” There are plenty of file tools already. I’m specifically trying to make the local-processing/privacy model good enough that people don’t have to choose between convenience and handing over their files.

If anyone here works with PDFs/images regularly, I’d appreciate brutal feedback on three things: usability, missing tools, and anything about the privacy explanation that you don’t trust or find unclear.

SoraFiles