Chrome extension
PDFLove in every tab
Right-click a PDF anywhere on the web and send it straight to a tool. No download, no re-upload, no account — and the file never leaves your machine, because there is nowhere for it to go.
Almost there. The listing is in review at the Chrome Web Store. Until it clears, you can load the extension yourself — the steps are below, and they take about a minute.
What it does
Right-click a PDF link
Any PDF anywhere on the web. Pick a tool from the menu and it opens with the file already loaded — no downloading it to your desktop first, and no dragging it back into a browser.
Or press Alt+Shift+P
The toolbar popup lists all 36 tools with a search box on top. Type two letters, press return, and you are on the tool. If the tab you are on is itself a PDF, the top of the popup offers to send it straight through.
The work stays on your machine
The extension moves the bytes from the tab into the page. It does not convert anything itself and it has no server to send anything to — the same WebAssembly engines the website uses do the work, in the same browser.
What it can and cannot see
Most PDF extensions ask to “read and change all your data on all websites”. This one does not, and that was a deliberate constraint rather than a nice-to-have: it uses activeTab, which grants access to a single tab at the moment you click a menu item and takes it away again afterwards.
- It cannot see any tab you have not right-clicked in.
- It has no network destination — there is no server to send a file to.
- It remembers which four tools you used last, and nothing else.
- Its only always-on script runs on pdf-love.com, to receive the file.
Install it yourself
Chrome loads an unpacked extension straight from a folder, which is also how you can read every line before running it:
- 01Download the extension and unzip it somewhere you will not delete by accident.
- 02Open
chrome://extensionsand switch on Developer mode in the top right. - 03Click Load unpacked and choose that folder.
- 04Pin it to the toolbar from the puzzle-piece menu, and right-click any PDF link to check it works.
Questions
- Does the extension upload my files anywhere?
- No. It reads the file straight from the tab you are on and hands it to a PDFLove page in your own browser. The conversion runs in that page, on your machine. Nothing is sent to a server at any point.
- What permissions does it ask for, and why?
- Four, and no broad site access. It uses contextMenus to add the right-click items, storage to remember which tools you used last, and activeTab plus scripting to read the file from the tab you clicked in — access granted at that click and gone afterwards. It cannot read pages you have not asked it to act on.
- Do I need the extension to use PDFLove?
- Not at all. Every tool works the same on the website. The extension only saves the download-then-re-upload round trip when the file you want is already open in a tab.
- Does it work offline?
- The tools do, once a page has been loaded before — the site installs a service worker that keeps them cached. Fetching a PDF from a website obviously still needs the network.
- Is there a Firefox or Safari version?
- Not yet. The extension is built to the Manifest V3 standard that Firefox also supports, so a port is realistic, but each store has its own review process and only Chrome is ready today.
No extension needed to get started — all 36 tools work on the site, and the guides explain what each one does to your file.