Technical Documentation

PDF Toolkit is a powerful suite of client-side tools designed for maximum performance, security, and privacy. This document provides a high-level overview of our architecture and the core technologies we utilize.

Core Architecture: Client-Side Processing

Unlike many online PDF tools, PDF Toolkit does not upload your files to a server for processing. Every operation—from merging documents to converting file formats—is executed locally within your web browser using JavaScript.

The advantages of this approach are significant:

• Absolute Privacy: Your files are never transmitted over the internet, completely eliminating the risk of data interception or unauthorized access on a server.
• Enhanced Security: Since your documents remain on your device, you maintain full control over your sensitive information.
• Superior Speed: By removing the need for uploading and downloading, processing time is dramatically reduced, limited only by the capabilities of your device.

Key Open-Source Libraries

Our toolkit is built upon a foundation of powerful and well-maintained open-source projects. We believe in transparency and encourage developers to explore these technologies for their own applications.

1. PDF Creation and Modification: pdf-lib.js

For tasks that involve creating a new PDF or modifying an existing one (merging, splitting, adding text), we use pdf-lib.js. It's a versatile library that allows for low-level manipulation of the PDF structure directly in JavaScript.

2. PDF Rendering and Parsing: PDF.js

To display PDF previews and extract data (like text for conversions), we use Mozilla's PDF.js. It is a robust and highly compatible library for rendering PDF files to a canvas element and parsing their content.

3. File Packaging: JSZip

When a tool produces multiple output files (e.g., PDF to JPG, where each page becomes an image), we use JSZip to package them into a single, convenient .zip archive for the user to download.

4. File Conversion (to Office Formats)

For conversions to Microsoft Office formats, we leverage the following libraries:

• PDF to Word: We use docx to construct a `.docx` file by rendering each PDF page as an image and embedding it into the document.
• PDF to PowerPoint: We use PptxGenJS to create `.pptx` presentations, where each PDF page becomes a full-size image on a slide.
• PDF to Excel: We use SheetJS (xlsx) after extracting text content from the PDF to generate a `.xlsx` spreadsheet.

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