Your documents
PaperLocal reads the files you choose inside your browser tab. Merging, splitting, rotating, extracting, removing pages, and image-to-PDF conversion happen on your device. PaperLocal does not provide a document upload endpoint, account, or cloud document storage.
Closing or refreshing the working page clears the document selection. Downloads are saved wherever your browser normally saves files.
Website analytics and performance
PaperLocal uses Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights to understand aggregate page visits, browser performance, popular routes, and traffic sources. PaperLocal does not send custom tool events, processing outcomes, document properties, or error reports to Vercel.
Analytics do not include document names, contents, file sizes, page counts, document metadata, raw error messages, or account and document identifiers. Speed measurements are sampled to keep collection lightweight. Blocking or unavailable analytics does not affect local PDF processing.
Like other website infrastructure, Vercel may process limited technical request information needed to serve the site and produce analytics. You can review the Vercel Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab).
Data stored on your device
PaperLocal uses browser storage for product preferences and local-only information, including:
- Your light, dark, or system theme preference.
- The number of successful jobs completed in that browser.
- Whether you dismissed the optional app-install suggestion and the number of visits used to avoid showing it too early.
If you install PaperLocal, a service worker stores the application shell and static interface assets so previously opened tools can load when your connection drops. It does not store selected PDFs, generated downloads, document previews, or OCR model files. OCR models remain on-demand network resources.
You can remove this information and offline application data by clearing site data in your browser.
Links and support
If you follow a link to GitHub or another website, that service receives information under its own privacy policy. Do not attach confidential documents or paste sensitive document contents into a public issue.
PaperLocal can prepare a privacy-safe diagnostic summary when an error appears. The summary is created in your browser and is not sent anywhere unless you choose to copy it or open a GitHub report.
Questions or privacy concerns can be submitted through the support page.