Every tool you need to work with PDFs

MicroBrief is a free, open-source, self-hostable PDF toolkit. Convert Word to PDF, merge PDFs, compress files — everything is processed locally on your machine.

100% free and easy to use. Self-host it and process files locally — nothing leaves your computer. No signup required.

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Popular Tools

Word to PDF

Convert Word documents to PDF format easily

JPG to PDF

Convert images to PDF documents

Merge PDF

Combine multiple PDFs into one file

Compress PDF

Reduce PDF file size without losing quality

Unlock PDF

Remove password protection from PDF files

Excel to PDF

Convert Excel spreadsheets to PDF format

PDF to Excel

Extract tables and data from PDFs to Excel

OCR PDF

Extract text from images & scanned PDFs
AGPL-3.0 Licensed

Check out the Codebase

MicroBrief is fully open source. Read every line, self-host it, or help make it better.

MicroBrief/
$ tree -L 1
├── api/ # Express routes & handlers
├── views/ # HTML pages
├── public/ # CSS, JS, assets
├── python/ # Python converters
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── README.md
├── LICENSE.md
└── CONTRIBUTING.md
$ npm run dev
✓ Server running at http://localhost:3000

Built with

Node.js Express Python LibreOffice Ghostscript Tesseract OCR pdf-lib PyMuPDF
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Fork & Run Locally

Clone the repo, install deps, and spin it up on your machine in under 5 minutes.

Read the Docs

Everything you need to know — deployment, tool workflows, tech stack, and API details.

Contribute

Found a bug? Want a feature? Open an issue or submit a PR — every contribution counts.