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PDF Nova

Fast, private PDF tools that run in your browser.

Category: Web applications · Websites · AI solutions
Year: 2026
Status: Live
Languages: EN · FR · ES · DE · IT · AR

pdf-nova.com

PDF Nova — home page with the PDF upload area, on desktop

Overview

A multilingual suite of 45 PDF tools. The core tools run entirely in the browser, so files never leave the visitor's device. Optional server tools handle Office conversion and AI answers with page citations.

Our solution

A Next.js application built around a data-driven tool registry: every tool is a lazy-loaded workspace, so a page only ships the code it needs. Heavy work (OCR, compression, conversion) runs in Web Workers and WebAssembly, with accounts, billing, support tickets and an admin area on top.

Key features

01
Merge, split, compress, sign and edit PDF text
02
In-browser OCR in six languages
03
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and HTML to PDF, plus PDF/A
04
AI tools that answer with page citations
05
Accounts and a Pro plan with secure payments
06
Six interface languages, including Arabic (RTL)

Engineering highlights

01Files processed client-side in Web Workers and WASM — nothing uploaded for core tools
02Security review against OWASP ASVS: non-root read-only containers, isolated conversion service
03Technical SEO at scale: 330 sitemap URLs, hreflang, per-locale canonicals, JSON-LD
04Scripted deploys with backups, smoke tests and one-command rollback