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Why I'm building free PDF and image tools that never touch a server

DEV Community·swathik·24 days ago
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Last month, I watched someone at a café upload their national ID(Aadhaar) to an online PDF tool. They needed to crop it, compress it, and send it somewhere. So they did what everyone does — Googled "free PDF tool," uploaded the file, downloaded the result, closed the tab. Their government ID — name, address, date of birth, ID number — had just passed through a server they knew nothing about. Stored for how long? Accessed by whom? Under which country's data laws? They had no idea. Neither did the tool. That moment stuck with me. Because I realised: this isn't rare. This is what hundreds of millions of people do every single day.…

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