1. Who Is Behind PDFVintage?
PDFVintage is owned and operated by an Australian-based individual developer and hobbyist who simply loves working around computers. What started as late-night experimentation with document formats grew into a full conversion platform, built with one goal: to help people worldwide handle their documents quickly, affordably, and without giving up their privacy.
There is no corporate bureaucracy here — no data-hungry middlemen, no ad networks, no hidden motives. Just one person who enjoys solving messy file problems, shipping improvements regularly, and answering support emails personally.
2. What PDFVintage Does
PDFVintage is a complete document toolbox with 50+ free-to-use tools, including:
- Convert from PDF: PDF to Word, Excel, CSV, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown, XML, EPUB, images, text, and JSON.
- Convert to PDF: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown, ODT, ODS, ODP, RTF, EPUB, XML, CSV, JSON, and images.
- PDF utilities: merge, split, compress, rotate, page operations, watermark, sign, protect, unlock, repair, and grayscale.
- AI & OCR: the Docling Granite suite — messy-PDF reconstruction, image/scan-to-Word, invoice & table extraction, math-to-LaTeX, and AI-ready Markdown.
Many tools run entirely inside your browser — your files never leave your device. Heavier conversions run on our servers, and are processed and forgotten within moments.
3. Built on Google's Ecosystem
PDFVintage runs on Google's cloud ecosystem, which means your documents are processed by Google's world-class infrastructure:
- Google Cloud Run hosts our conversion engines in isolated, ephemeral containers that are destroyed after each job — files are never persisted.
- Google Firebase Authentication secures account sign-in with short-lived tokens, so your login is handled by the same infrastructure that protects Google's own services.
- Google Cloud Firestore stores only account metadata and usage counters — never your documents.
In plain terms: when you convert a file, the heavy lifting happens inside Google's secure cloud, under encryption in transit, with automatic deletion the moment your download is ready.
4. Rules, Honestly Followed
PDFVintage follows the rules strictly and believes in full disclosure. Everything about how your data is handled — what is collected, what is never stored, who processes it, and for how long — is documented openly in our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Security pages. If it isn't written there, we don't do it.
As an Australian-operated service, we also honour the Australian Consumer Law and the Australian Privacy Principles alongside GDPR and CCPA commitments.
5. Payments — Handled Entirely by Stripe
The everyday tools are free. Premium OCR page packs are one-time purchases, and those payments are processed entirely by Stripe — the same payment platform used by millions of businesses worldwide. Your card details go directly to Stripe and never touch PDFVintage servers; we only receive a receipt reference so your purchased page credits can be added to your account automatically.
6. Standing on the Shoulders of Open Source
PDFVintage proudly builds on the open-source ecosystem: pdf-lib and pdf.js for in-browser PDF work, Tabula (tabula-java) for table extraction, LibreOffice for office-document rendering, Apache POI for spreadsheet generation, and IBM's Docling for AI document understanding. These projects make tools like this possible, and they deserve the credit.
7. Get in Touch
Questions, feedback, bug reports, or just want to say hi? Email support@pdfvintage.app — you'll reach the developer directly, not a ticket queue.