Get your PDF ready to submit.
The specialised finishing station for PDFs preparing for submission, filing, or delivery. Run automated pre-flight diagnostics, standardize mixed page dimensions (A4/Letter), align sideways and inverted scans, purge duplex feeder blank pages, flatten interactive form fields into permanent vectors, add sequential Bates or page numbering, and enforce portal upload size budgets — locally and privately on your Mac.
Zero file uploads. Processing executes locally on your Mac hardware.
1 purchase covers your laptop, desktop, and work machine.
Perpetual $5 license. Pay once with maintenance updates included.
When assembling legal briefs, academic applications, visa submissions, or corporate filings, documents sourced from multiple contributors arrive as a chaotic mess: mixed Letter, A4, and irregular scan dimensions, upside-down pages, blank pages from duplex document feeders, and unflattened interactive form fields that render blank on court electronic filing systems.
A 68-page compilation with 3 mixed page dimensions, 4 blank feeder pages, unflattened signatures, and an oversized 24 MB footprint.
Normalized to uniform Letter geometry, blank scanner backsides purged, forms flattened into permanent vectors, Bates stamped, and compressed to 4.2 MB.
Try the simulated macOS desktop workflow below. Experience the exact speed, output, and calm interface before purchasing.
Mixed dimensions, rotated scans, and unflattened forms may fail portal ingestion.
Why a focused Usefulware utility is dramatically superior to default OS tools or multi-gigabyte bloatware.
Adobe Acrobat Pro costs $240/year, has a bloated multi-gigabyte footprint, and online converters expose sensitive legal, financial, and personal filings to third-party web servers.
PDFPrep is a dedicated, distraction-free submission finishing station that audits pre-flight readiness, flattens forms, normalizes dimensions, and stamps Bates numbers locally for a one-time $5.
Clear boundaries between sibling utilities so you always select the exact right tool for the job.
PDFPrep is a specialised finishing station for formal filings (standardizing page geometry, flattening form vectors, Bates numbering, pre-flight audits). PDF Please is an everyday utility for ad-hoc merging, splitting, reordering, and lightweight compression.
Choose PDFPrep when preparing legal filings, official government applications, grants, or formal submissions that demand uniform geometry and flattened forms.
Choose PDF Please when you quickly need to combine receipts, reorder pages, extract a page range, or compress a simple PDF.
Every feature is purpose-built to solve this single task with zero unnecessary complexity.
Instantly inspects page dimension consistency, orientation alignment, blank feeder pages, interactive form widgets, and byte budgets before submitting.
Harmonizes mixed Letter, A4, Legal, and irregular receipts into a uniform target size with proportional scaling and balanced margins.
Detects upside-down (180°) and sideways scans, aligning all pages to upright portrait while preserving intentional landscape tables.
Identifies empty backsides produced by automatic document feeders with user confirmation, preventing accidental blank pages in court briefs.
Permanently locks interactive form fields, checkmarks, and annotations into document page graphics so they render identically in any viewer.
Stamps clean continuous numbering (Page X of Y or custom legal Bates stamps) with configurable positions and cover-page offset.
Run pre-flight audits, normalize page geometry, flatten forms, and stamp Bates numbers in one coherent pass.
No monthly renewals or creeping price hikes. Pay once and keep your tool forever.
Use on your desktop Mac, MacBook laptop, and work machine with instant self-service slot transfer.
If it doesn't solve your exact problem cleanly and reliably, we refund your payment without argument.
We are completely upfront about what PDFPrep does—and what it does not do. Clear boundaries guarantee reliability.
PDFPrep operates 100% locally on your Mac. Confidential contracts, legal filings, medical records, and financial disclosures are processed in memory and never uploaded to any cloud server.
100% offline. Pre-flight auditing, vector rasterization, dimension resampling, and Bates stamping require zero internet connectivity.
Need multiple utilities? Combine PDFPrep with any 2 other tools in our 10-app catalogue for $12.00 in the Trio Pack (save 20%), or get all 10 current tools with maintenance updates included for $19.00.
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One-time purchase of $5.00. Perpetual license for up to 3 personal Macs. 100% offline core, zero subscriptions, and an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee.