Smallpdf is a Swiss online web-based
PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...
software, founded in 2013. It offers free services to compress, convert and edit PDF documents.
History
Smallpdf was founded in 2013 by Mathis Büchi, Lino Teuterberg, and Manuel Stofer while they were living abroad in Korea. The idea came from the need for their families to compress and send large documents via email.
The initial version of the site featured a standalone PDF compression tool. Since then, the online platform has introduced over 16 PDF tools to convert, compress and edit PDF documents. As of 2019, approximately 25 million unique users use Smallpdf every month.
In November 2018, it was announced that Smallpdf would integrate with Dropbox as part of the 'Dropbox Extensions', to provide Dropbox users with PDF editing capabilities.
Technical partners
Smallpdf partners with
Solid Documents
Solid Documents is a global productivity software company which creates document reconstruction and archival resources for businesses and individual consumers. Most notably, the same technology used by its Solid Framework software development kit ...
for PDF to Office libraries, as well as with PDF tools.
Solid Documents is a New Zealand-based company offering desktop PDF solutions.
See also
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List of PDF software
This is a list of links to articles on software used to manage Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. The distinction between the various functions is not entirely clear-cut; for example, some viewers allow adding of annotations, signatures, e ...
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