Deste docs
Merges PDFs and images, trims and reorders pages, compresses scans. All in your browser; your documents are never uploaded.
Browser, free for personal use, beta
First steps
- Introduction
What Deste is, how it runs in your browser, why your documents never leave your device, and a map of this documentation.
- Getting started
The Deste web version needs no installation: which browsers it runs in, what happens the first time you open it, and the status of the desktop version.
- Quick start
Deste in a minute: add files, weed out and reorder pages, and save them as a single PDF.
What you can do
- Organizing documents
- The Stacks and All Pages views, selection, reordering, removing and rotating pages, moving and copying between documents, splitting, preview and search.
- Saving as PDF
- Merge the selected documents and pages into a single PDF and download it, with optional compression.
- PDF compression
- Shrink scanned and photo-heavy PDFs: five levels, per-page settings, a before/after preview and advanced options.
- History and resuming work
- How the documents you open are kept in this browser for a set time, reopening and deleting them from history, and getting your workspace back after the tab is closed.
If something goes wrong
- The app won’t open or gets stuck on the loading screen
- A PDF won’t open
- On a phone, “Add Files” only opens the camera or gallery
- I reopened the tab and my documents are gone
- Compression didn’t shrink the file much
- I clicked a page and the preview opened on a different page
- Dark mode or the language resets every time I open the site
The whole troubleshooting page Frequently asked questions Write to: [email protected]
When you write, include the version line from Settings → About.
Desktop version (coming soon)
- Capturing prints
- Deste adds itself as a virtual printer and collects prints from any program before they go to paper.
- Print options
- Copies and confirmation, double-sided printing, eco, black-and-white, blank-page check and vector printing.