Exam applications, visa packets and job portfolios often need several documents bundled into a single PDF. You could pay for a desktop tool or hand your files to an upload-everything service — or you can merge them free, right here, without anything leaving your device. Here's how.
When you need to merge PDFs
- Exam applications. Many portals ask for a single combined PDF of your marksheets, degree certificate and ID — even if they were scanned separately.
- Visa and OCI applications. Supporting documents often need to be submitted as one file per category.
- Job and university portfolios. Cover letter, CV and certificates combined into a single attachment.
- Bank and government form packs. Application form + Aadhaar + PAN + income certificate, merged before upload.
How to merge PDFs free in your browser
Open the PDF merge tool, then:
- Drop two or more PDF files onto the panel (or click to pick them from your device). All files stay on your device — nothing is uploaded.
- Drag the pages into the order you need. You can remove a page with the delete button if one crept in that shouldn't be there.
- Click Merge & Download. The combined PDF downloads immediately.
No sign-up, no watermark, no size limit beyond what your browser can handle (typically several hundred MB total).
After merging: getting the combined PDF under a size cap
A merged PDF inherits the file sizes of all its inputs. If the portal has a cap — say, 200 KB — compress the merged PDF immediately after:
- Compress to 100 KB or 200 KB for most portals.
- Compress to 50 KB for the tightest exam-portal limits (UPSC annexures, IBPS supporting docs).
- Custom KB target to enter whatever limit the form specifies.
Splitting a PDF instead
Need the reverse — one large PDF broken into parts? The PDF split tool lets you extract individual pages or ranges. Useful when a form wants each document separately and you only have a combined scan.
Privacy: your documents never leave your device
All PDF tools on this site — merge, split, compress, unlock — run entirely in your browser using local JavaScript. Marksheets, certificates, Aadhaar and income documents are sensitive; none of that data is ever transmitted to or stored on any server.