Scan to searchable
Phone photo in, selectable text out, in about a second a page.
NewE-sign with audit trail
On the quiet craft of the well-made PDF
The PDF is the format nobody loves and everybody sends. Margin Room makes it a little less painful: pages in order, signatures on time, files small enough to attach.
18PDF tools in one tab
Used by 310,000 people every month
Why it works
Built for the paperwork that actually piles up
Six tools cover most of what people open a PDF app for. The other twelve are there when you need them.
Merge
Three files in, one tidy PDF out
Drag the cover letter, the signed contract and the scanned receipts into one window. Reorder by thumbnail, drop the blank pages, and download a single file with a page count you can trust.
E-sign
Signed by everyone, with a paper trail
Place signature, initial and date fields, add signers in order, and send. Each person signs in a browser on any device. When the last signature lands, the PDF is stamped and sealed with an audit certificate.
Compress
24.8 MB down to 3.1 MB, still readable
Pick a target such as email (under 10 MB) or upload portal (under 5 MB). Margin Room recompresses photos page by page and leaves text and vector drawings untouched, so the fine print stays fine.
- Edit text in place. Fix a typo, change a date or swap a logo right on the page.
- Merge and reorder. Drop in files, drag thumbnails into order, delete the blank page the scanner always adds.
- Compress without the mush. Pick a target like "under 10 MB for email" and we choose image quality page by page.
- OCR for scans. Turn phone photos and old scans into searchable, copyable text in 9 languages.
- E-sign with audit trail. Send for signature, set signing order, and get a certificate with timestamps and IP addresses attached to the final PDF.
- Convert both ways. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG and HTML to PDF and back.
The paperwork, counted
- people every month
- 310k
- files processed last month
- 2.4M
- average size reduction
- 87%
- average rating
- 4.8/5
How it works
Drop a file. Pick a tool. Done.
No account needed for your first three tasks a day.
- 1
Drop in your files
PDFs, scans, phone photos or Office documents, up to 200 MB each. Drag them from your desktop or a synced folder.
- 2
Choose what to do
Merge, compress, OCR, sign, redact or convert. Set a target size or page range, or keep the sensible defaults.
- 3
Download or send
Get the finished PDF in seconds, share a link that expires in 7 days, or send it straight out for signature.
The toolkit
A whole PDF desk in one tab
The tools you would otherwise pay for in three separate desktop apps.
Median time to merge two 20-page files.
18 tools
Everything from merge to redact, nothing to install.
On-device by default
14 tools never upload. The rest delete files after 1 hour.
Crisp after compressing
Photos recompressed per page; text stays vector.
Shared team folders
Templates, signed copies and one invoice for everyone.
Pricing
Free for small jobs. Pro for the rest.
Start free with three tasks a day. Upgrade when PDFs are part of your job.
Free
For the occasional form or merge.
$0forever
Start free- 3 tasks per day
- Files up to 50 MB
- All 18 tools
- OCR up to 10 pages a day
Pro
Most popularFor anyone who lives in PDFs.
$9per month
Choose Pro- Unlimited tasks
- Files up to 200 MB
- Unlimited OCR
- 20 signature requests a month
- Batch processing
Team
For teams of 3 or more.
$7per user / mo
Start a team trial- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited signature requests
- Shared folders and templates
- SSO and admin console
Prices in USD, billed monthly or yearly (save 25%). Cancel anytime; Pro has a 30-day refund window.
Testimonials
Fewer attachments, fewer headaches
Sample reviews written for this template. Replace them with your own.
“Our weekly site survey is 60 pages of photos. It went from 41 MB to 6 MB and the client portal finally accepts it.”
Tomás FerreiraCivil Engineer“We send offer letters for countersignature through Margin Room. Median time from sent to signed is now under two hours.”
Grace AdebayoRecruiting Lead“OCR on scanned case files from the nineties, in Spanish, with the accents intact. I did not expect that from a browser tab.”
Lucía RomeroParalegal“Assembling the monthly board pack used to take twenty minutes in a desktop app. It takes two now, bookmarks included.”
Kenji WatanabeChief of Staff“IT approved it in a week because most tools run locally. That conversation usually takes a quarter.”
Ruth LindqvistOperations Manager“I fill out the same vendor forms a dozen times a year. With saved fields each one takes about 30 seconds.”
Marcus BellFreelance Photographer
FAQ
Questions, answered
Can't find what you're looking for? Our support team replies within a few hours on weekdays.
Are my files uploaded to your servers?
Merge, split, rotate, compress, edit, redact and most conversions run on your device with WebAssembly, so the file never leaves your browser. OCR, e-sign and Office-to-PDF conversion run on our servers in Frankfurt; those files are encrypted in transit and deleted automatically after one hour.
How good is the OCR on bad scans?
It handles crooked, low-light phone photos and 200 dpi office scans well, in nine languages including German, Spanish, French and Japanese. Handwriting isn't recognized. You get the same-looking page with an invisible text layer, so it becomes searchable and copyable.
Are the e-signatures legally binding?
Signatures made with Margin Room are standard electronic signatures under ESIGN and UETA in the US and simple electronic signatures under eIDAS in the EU. Every signed file includes an audit certificate with signer emails, timestamps and IP addresses. Documents that need notarization are out of scope.
What are the file size and page limits?
Free handles files up to 50 MB and three tasks a day. Pro raises that to 200 MB with unlimited tasks, and Team to 500 MB. A single file can have up to 2,000 pages, and you can merge up to 50 files at once.
Does it work offline or on my phone?
It works in any current browser on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPad and Android. Once the page has loaded, the on-device tools keep working without a connection, which is handy on a train. OCR and e-sign need to be online.
We're moving from a desktop PDF editor. What about our forms?
Upload your existing fillable forms and they keep their fields. Team admins can import saved signatures and stamps, and on the Team plan we'll migrate up to 200 templates for you at no charge.
Can I cancel or get a refund?
Cancel from the billing page in two clicks and keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for. If you upgrade and it isn't what you needed, email us within 30 days for a full refund — no exit survey.
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Used by 310,000 people every month