What changed on the site, newest first. Dates are the days a change reached uvpdftool.com. The About page says how the tools are tested before a change ships.
: Evidence on the pages
- Every tool has a “Try with a sample file” button: documents we wrote for the site (a report, an invoice, a brochure, a rental agreement in two versions, a form, two scanned letters) that open the tool in a few seconds.
- Compress PDF, OCR PDF and Edit PDF show what they can and cannot do, with results measured on the sample files and pictures of the tool at work.
- Four guides, in English: compressing a PDF under 200 KB, why a PDF will not compress, making a scanned PDF searchable, and redacting a PDF permanently.
- The About page exists in all nine languages and says how the tools are tested, how to report a wrong result and what is kept for how long.
- The home page starts with the most common tasks and a box that finds a tool as you type.
- Each page shows the day its words last changed, and that day, not the deploy, is what search engines are told.
- The home page and the social images say where the work happens tool by tool, instead of claiming that everything runs on your device. OCR PDF lists the nine languages it really reads.
- The legal pages name one address each for search engines, and this page exists.
: First words sooner
- Pages paint their text sooner: the stylesheet is inlined, two scripts, a font and a picture no longer load before the page, and the logo is served as small WebP files.
- Brand, icon, font and language files are cached by the browser for a long time, so a second visit downloads almost nothing.
: Passwords
- An account is created with a password, chosen after the emailed link has proven the address, and opened with that password from then on.
- Ten wrong passwords in fifteen minutes lock the account for fifteen minutes, and a password known from a public breach is refused when it is chosen.
- The account page has one path to sign in and another to create an account, each saying what it does.
- After each deploy the search engines that take IndexNow are told which pages exist.
: A name and a face
- The site is called UV pdfTool everywhere, with its logo in the header, the footer, the browser tab and the pictures shown when a page is shared.
- An About page says who makes the site and what the name is and is not.
- Usage statistics that name nobody: counts of pages and tool runs, without cookies, third parties or personal data, read on an administration page.
: Guides on every page, signatures by email
- Every tool page carries a guide below the tool: what it is for, three steps, five questions with answers, and related tools, in all nine languages.
- Sign requests: send a PDF for signature by email; each signer gets a private link, signs in the browser, and everyone receives the signed copy with a certificate and an audit trail.
- Sign in with Google, beside the emailed link.
- New tools: Compare PDF, Scan to PDF, Create PDF form, and PDF to PDF/A on the servers.
: Live at uvpdftool.com
- The site goes live with the free browser tools and, on the servers, the Office conversions, PDF repair and web page to PDF.
- PDF to Markdown and an image watermark tool; each Office conversion has its own page.
- The editor gets an app-like shell: a ribbon, a side panel and a bottom bar.
- The privacy policy names the storage, database, worker and email providers.
: Before launch
- The PDF engine and the first eleven browser tools, then the editor that changes a document’s own text like a word processor, with pictures, tables, OCR, redaction, links and pages.
- Nine languages from the first day: English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Spanish, Portuguese and Indonesian.
- Crop, flatten, properties and compress tools.