Every day, millions of users upload sensitive financial documents, legal contracts, and personal records to random cloud-based PDF converters. Most do not realize the immense security risk this poses.
The Cloud Security Risk
When you use a traditional online PDF tool, you are actively transmitting your file across the internet to a third-party server. Once uploaded, your document sits on their hardware where it is decrypted, processed, and repackaged.
Even if a company claims they delete files after 1 hour, during that window, your data is vulnerable to:
- Data Breaches: Server-side vulnerabilities that expose temporary file storage.
- Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: Interception during the upload/download phase if TLS is misconfigured.
- Third-Party Logs: Unintentional retention of metadata or text extraction logs.
The FixIt Localy Solution: No Upload PDF Tools
We built FixIt Localy to flip this paradigm entirely. By utilizing modern HTML5 Canvas and WebAssembly technologies, we act as a Private PDF merger and complete secure document processing suite directly inside your browser.
When you drop a file into our tools, it never touches a network request. It is parsed and manipulated using your device's own CPU and RAM. This is what we call the Local Sandbox.
The Zero-Retention Guarantee
Because there is no server involved in the processing pipeline, there is literally nothing to hack, no logs to audit, and no storage to purge. Once you close your browser tab, the browser's garbage collector instantly destroys all temporary memory buffers.
Take Control of Your Data
Whether you are merging tax documents or compressing a sensitive medical record, you should never have to sacrifice your privacy for convenience. FixIt Localy ensures that what happens on your machine, stays on your machine.