A friend of mine who works in cybersecurity told me a story over tea that made my jaw drop. He was testing a popular free PDF tool website and discovered that every single document visitors dropped into that box was quietly stored on an open cloud server.
Think about what folks convert every day: bank statements, tax forms, prescriptions, job contracts. And where does all that go? Into someone else's database.
When I put together the PDF to Text tool on this site, I swore I wouldn't touch a backend database. We use PDF.js right inside your browser. You can disconnect your Wi-Fi, drop your file in, and it will still extract your text safely.