What's new in Toolula

The changes you can see and use, newest first. Small fixes and behind-the-scenes work are left out.

1. 2026-11-05

   Tool files now come from toolula.com

   The OCR engine and its language data, PDF fonts, the face and licence-plate detectors and the code editor are no longer loaded from public CDNs. Using these tools only talks to toolula.com, and they keep working offline once used. The face blur in Privacy Shield works again.

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2. 2026-11-05

   New homepage: drop a file, pick what to do

   Drop a PDF, image or e-invoice on the homepage and Toolula suggests the matching tools — edit, sign, compress, validate, remove background.

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3. 2026-11-03

   Create a blank PDF and start typing

   A new blank PDF opens directly in the editor, ready to type; text boxes wrap their lines.

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4. 2026-11-03

   E-invoices for French buyers: SIREN and SIRET

   The e-invoice studio takes a French company's SIREN or SIRET and writes it with the right scheme into Factur-X and XRechnung.

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5. 2026-11-02

   Edit PDF: forms, translation, links and more

   Design fillable forms, translate a page while keeping its layout, scroll through all pages, add hyperlinks, stamps, a text watermark, headers, footers and Bates numbers, and edit bookmarks — all in the editor.

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6. 2026-11-01

   Local history for your PDFs and invoices

   Files you save from the PDF tools and invoices you download are kept in your browser's history on this device, so you can reopen them. Toolula asks the browser to protect that storage and can back it up as files you keep.

7. 2026-11-01

   “What next?” after every PDF and OCR result

   After a tool finishes, Toolula suggests sensible next steps — for example compress, then sign — and hands the file over without downloading it first.

8. 2026-11-01

   Edit PDF: redact areas, replace and insert pages

   Black out areas, replace or crop pages, and insert pages from other PDFs from the page rail.

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9. 2026-11-01

   Cleaner background removal, fixed on iPhone

   Edges are refined against the original photo, and removing a background no longer crashes Safari on iOS.

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10. 2026-10-27

    Scan to Searchable PDF takes existing PDFs

    Besides photos, you can now drop a scanned PDF and get a version with selectable, searchable text.

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11. 2026-10-27

    Payroll and depreciation calculators corrected

    The payroll calculator uses the 1.8 % employee share for long-term care insurance, and the depreciation calculator applies the declining-balance cap for the purchase date.

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12. 2026-10-26

    Toolula Video

    Compress, convert, trim and extract audio from videos in the browser — plus GIF, mute, resize, crop, rotate, speed and merge.

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13. 2026-10-26

    Darken PDF for faint signatures and pale scans

    Makes light ink and grey scans readable. You can darken only marked areas, and Toolula suggests where the signatures are.

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14. 2026-10-26

    Edit PDF: manage pages in the sidebar

    Reorder, rotate, duplicate and delete pages, or add blank ones, right in the editor's sidebar.

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15. 2026-10-25

    Fix: Protect PDF now always encrypts

    Until this fix, Protect PDF could save files without encryption, so they opened without a password. Please protect files you protected before 25 October 2026 again.

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16. 2026-10-25

    Smart Redaction

    Finds IBANs, tax and VAT numbers, e-mail addresses, phone and card numbers — or your own search terms — and removes the text itself instead of just covering it.

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17. 2026-10-25

    Edited text keeps its original font

    When you change a line in a PDF, Toolula redraws it in the document's own font whenever that font contains every character needed.

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18. 2026-10-25

    Résumé / CV builder

    Write a CV with clean templates; the preview and the PDF break pages identically.

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19. 2026-10-25

    Quick check: from invoice to what's left

    The quick check on the Calc page estimates VAT, income tax and social contributions per country, now including Switzerland; Austrian and Dutch salary values are updated to 2026.

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20. 2026-10-21

    Edit PDF: fill in forms

    Fill in a PDF's form fields, and edited text in Korean, Polish, Turkish and other scripts gets a matching fallback font.

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21. 2026-10-20

    Edit PDF: add text, find and replace, drafts

    Add text anywhere, find and replace across all pages, mark up with highlights and notes, and continue where you left off thanks to automatic drafts.

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22. 2026-10-20

    Compare PDFs, images and tables

    Prism shows the differences between two texts, PDFs, images or tables side by side.

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23. 2026-10-19

    Translate recognised text on the device

    OCR results can be translated in the browser — with its built-in translator, or with Mozilla's open-source models in Safari, Firefox and on phones.

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24. 2026-10-18

    ZUGFeRD / Factur-X invoices and a corrected XRechnung

    The e-invoice studio creates ZUGFeRD / Factur-X PDFs (CII XML in a PDF/A-3b file), and the XRechnung export was corrected against the official KoSIT validator.

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25. 2026-10-18

    New PDF tools

    Extract tables to CSV and Excel, convert PDF to and from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, flatten, remove metadata, split by size and build photo portfolios.

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26. 2026-10-18

    Late-payment interest calculator

    Calculates statutory default interest and the €40 flat fee for late B2B payments.

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