Pooch PDF — Web Page to PDF & Drive

Convert any web page to a clean PDF. Strips ads and clutter. One-click Drive save. Selectable text, not screenshots. 100% local. Convert any web page to a clean, readable PDF — one click, no junk. The best free web page to PDF converter for Chrome. Pooch PDF extracts the article from any web page — strips ads, cookie banners, navbars, sidebars, pop-ups, and clutter — and generates a properly formatted PDF with selectable, searchable text (not a screenshot). Save to Google Drive in one click. Works on news articles, blogs, Wikipedia, academic papers, Substack, Medium, and documentation sites. Everything runs 100% locally in your browser. No uploads. No servers. No tracking. Your content never leaves your machine. v2.5: Emoji reactions. Freehand drawing. Collaborative annotations — share a link with colleagues and annotate the same page together. Shared annotations are end-to-end encrypted. Local-only by default. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THREE WAYS TO SAVE Quick PDF — Scrolls the page to load all lazy content, then saves the entire page as a PDF. What you see is what you get — fast and faithful. Clean PDF — Extracts the article using reader mode. Strips ads, sidebars, pop-ups, and clutter. Generates a vector PDF with selectable, searchable text — not a rasterized screenshot. Professional typography with Charter/Georgia serif body, Helvetica Neue headings, teal accents, and styled tables, code blocks, and blockquotes. AI-powered formatting generates a tailored stylesheet for each document. Mechanical cleanup removes web artifacts like [edit] links and citation numbers. ~10x smaller files than rasterized PDFs. Region Select (Experimental) — Don't need the whole page? Toggle Region Select in the popup to activate a visual overlay showing content "islands" on the page. Hover to see AI summaries of each section, zoom in/out to navigate DOM depth, and click to select. Captures the selected region as a pixel-perfect rasterized PDF via a scroll-capture-stitch pipeline. A post-capture modal lets you edit the title and summary, then save to disk or Google Drive. Annotate — Highlight text, strikethrough deletions, insert suggested text, add comments, and draw (pen, arrow, rectangle) directly on any web page. Each tool remembers its own color. Your annotations are saved automatically and persist across page refreshes and browser restarts. Share a session key with colleagues to annotate the same page collaboratively — changes sync in real time. When you export to PDF, annotations become native PDF objects (not screenshots) — interactive highlights, sticky notes, and ink strokes that appear in any PDF viewer's annotation panel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v2.5.1 - Improved shared viewer — Shared annotation links now open full-page for better readability, with an "Add to Chrome" bar for recipients who don't have the extension yet. - Smarter annotation alignment — Annotations in shared links now track their correct position more reliably across different devices, screen sizes, and text rendering. Highlights re-anchor to the exact text. Drawings and emoji annotations scale with the page layout. - Fixed: Emoji picker now only opens when the emoji tool is selected. - Fixed: Joining a shared session via a link now correctly activates the collaborative session when you start annotating. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v2.5.0 - Emoji reactions — Place emoji annotations anywhere on a page. Scalable with the scroll wheel. - Smarter annotation anchoring — Annotations survive page reflows more accurately. SimHash-based paragraph matching locates the right text block even after significant layout changes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v2.3 - Strikethrough — Select text and mark it as deleted. Exports as a native PDF annotation. - Insert — Click anywhere in text to place a caret marker with suggested insertion text. - Collaborative Annotations — Click Share in the toolbar to create a session key. Share it with colleagues — everyone with the key sees and adds annotations on the same page in real time. Local-only by default; sync is opt-in. No accounts required. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v2.2 - Persistent Annotations — Highlight, comment, and draw on any page. Annotations are saved to your browser's local storage and restored automatically when you revisit. Undo works across sessions. - Smart Anchoring — Highlights anchor to the actual text content, not pixel positions. When a page reflows (different window size, ads load differently), your highlights snap back to the correct text. Comments and drawings anchor to nearby page elements. - Native PDF Annotations — Exported PDFs contain real annotation objects. View them in any PDF reader's annotation panel. Highlights show the selected text in popups. Comments appear as sticky notes. Drawings are vector ink strokes — not rasterized screenshots. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v2.0 - Vector PDF Engine — Clean PDF now generates vector PDFs with selectable, searchable text. ~10x smaller files. Professional typography: Charter/Georgia serif body, Helvetica Neue headings, teal accents, styled tables/code/blockquotes. - AI-Powered Formatting — On-device AI generates tailored stylesheets for each document. Mechanical cleanup removes web artifacts ([edit] links, citation numbers). Content is never changed — only styling. - Region Select (Experimental) — Visual island-based region selector. Toggle in popup activates an overlay showing content "islands." Hover for AI summaries, zoom to navigate DOM depth, click to select. Captures as a pixel-perfect rasterized PDF. - Simplified Interface — Two-view popup: main actions (Quick PDF, Clean PDF, Region Select) on the front, settings behind a gear icon. Save to Drive accessible via post-capture modal. - Page Progress Bar — Real-time visual feedback on the page during all PDF flows (scrolling, extracting, generating). - FlateDecode Compression — All PDFs now use zlib compression for 10-30% smaller files. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT POOCH REMOVES Sticky headers and footers repeated on every page Ads, pop-ups, and cookie banners in the article body Sidebar widgets, related articles, comment sections Images that break across page boundaries Lazy-loaded images that appear as blank boxes JavaScript-rendered content that other tools miss [edit] links, citation numbers, and other web artifacts (Clean PDF) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES - Vector PDF Engine Selectable, searchable text. Professional typography with Charter/Georgia serif, Helvetica Neue headings, and teal accents. Styled tables, code blocks, and blockquotes. ~10x smaller files than rasterized PDFs. - AI-Powered Formatting On-device AI generates a tailored stylesheet for each document. Mechanical cleanup removes web artifacts. Your content is never changed — only the styling. - Annotate & Persist Highlight, strikethrough, insert, comment, and draw (pen, arrow, rectangle) on any page. Each tool tracks its own color. Annotations save automatically and survive page refreshes, browser restarts, and revisits days later. Smart anchoring ties highlights to the actual text — not pixel positions — so they survive reflows. Undo works across sessions. Export produces native PDF annotation objects that are interactive in any PDF reader. - Collaborative Annotations Share a link with colleagues to annotate the same page together. Click Share in the toolbar to create or join a session. Changes sync automatically — end-to-end encrypted, server cannot read your annotations. Your annotations are local by default and never leave your machine unless you choose to share. No accounts required. Recipients without the extension can view shared annotations in a full-page viewer directly from the link. - Table of Contents Auto-generated from the article's headings. Appears on its own page for easy navigation. - AI Abstract Uses your browser's on-device summarizer to generate a concise abstract for every article. Falls back to the article's meta description if unavailable. The abstract is embedded as searchable PDF metadata — find any saved article later with Google Drive search. - Google Drive Integration One-click upload via the post-capture modal. Files land in a dedicated "Pooch PDF" folder. Pro users get smart filename templates with dates, authors, and source sites — your Drive stays organized even at hundreds of saved articles. - Shareable Links (Pro) After saving to Drive, get a short link (poochpdf.com/s/abc123) with Open Graph meta tags. Paste it into Slack, Teams, email, or any messaging app — your colleagues see the title, abstract, and thumbnail before they click. - Smart Filename Templates Free: "Title" and "Title — Site". Pro: nine templates including date-prefixed, author-title, and automatic monthly subfolders. No more manual renaming. - Request History Every PDF action is logged locally in your browser — URL, title, type, summary, keywords, and timestamp. View your full history from the popup, with clickable links to original pages and saved Drive files. Toggle tracking on or off anytime. All data stays on your device and is never sent to our servers. - Region Select (Experimental) Visual island-based selector. Toggle in popup to see content "islands" overlaid on the page. Hover for AI summaries, zoom in/out to navigate DOM depth, click to capture. Post-capture modal lets you edit title/summary and save to disk or Google Drive. - Page Progress Bar Real-time visual feedback during all PDF flows — scrolling, extracting, generating. No more wondering if the extension is still working. - Paper Size Options Single Page (one continuous PDF with no page breaks — the default), A4, Letter, or Legal. Your choice is remembered. - Works Everywhere Tested on news sites, blogs, Wikipedia, Substack, Medium, academic papers, and documentation sites. Unlimited Drive saves 9 filename templates (dates, authors, subfolders) Shareable links with rich previews No watermark on Clean PDFs $3 every 60 days, or $15/year The free tier is genuinely useful on its own. Pro is for heavy savers who want better organization and sharing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY All PDF generation happens locally in your browser. No page content ever leaves your machine. Google Drive uses the drive.file scope — the narrowest available. We can only see files Pooch PDF created. We cannot access your other Drive files. No analytics, no tracking, no telemetry. The only network calls: Google Drive upload (when you choose it) and share link creation (Pro only — sends title and abstract, never article content). Full policy: https://poochpdf.com/privacy.html Scrolls the page to trigger lazy-loaded images and infinite scroll content Removes sticky/fixed elements that repeat on printed pages For Clean PDF: extracts the article using reader mode, applies AI-generated styling, renders a vector PDF with selectable text For Quick PDF: captures the page as-is For Region Select: overlays content islands, captures the selected region Generates a PDF locally — no print dialog, no server For Drive: uploads the PDF, captures a thumbnail, and creates a short share URL activeTab — read the current page when you click the extension icon scripting — inject content extraction and scroll scripts storage — save your preferences (paper size, filename template) identity — Google OAuth for Drive upload (only triggered when you click "Save to Drive") googleapis.com — upload PDFs to your Google Drive ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT Questions? support@poochpdf.com or https://poochpdf.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VERSION HISTORY 2.5.1 — Improved shared annotation viewer, smarter alignment across devices, bug fixes 2.5.0 — Emoji annotations, freehand drawing SDK, smarter annotation anchoring 2.4.0 — New features and improvements 2.3.0 — Strikethrough and insert annotations for document review, collaborative annotations with shared session keys 2.2.0 — Persistent annotations with smart text anchoring, native PDF annotation objects 2.0.3 — Bug fixes 2.0.2 — Bug fixes 2.0.1 — Bug fixes 2.0.0 — Vector PDF engine with selectable text, AI-powered formatting, visual Region Select, simplified two-view interface, page progress bar, FlateDecode compression 1.5.0 — New features and improvements 1.4.0 — Region Select: hover, click, and save any section of a page as a PDF 1.3.2 — Bug fixes 1.3.1 — Bug fixes 1.3.0 — Add request history 1.2.5 — Quick PDF: silent download without print dialog, searchable text metadata 1.2.4 — Configurable PDF image format, quality, and resolution settings 1.2.3 — Bug fixes 1.2.2 — Bug fixes 1.2.1 — Bug fixes 1.2.0 — Request history: track all PDF actions locally with a browsable history page 1.1.7 — Bug fixes 1.1.6 — Bug fixes 1.1.5 — Localized progress messages, error messages, and Clean PDF preview bar (DE/JA/ZH) 1.1.4 — Bug fixes and print reliability improvements 1.1.3 — Bug fixes 1.1.2 — Bug fixes 1.1.1 — Quick/Clean PDF mode selector for Save to Drive; Drive and other bug fixes 1.1.0 — PDF mode selector, Quick PDF Save to Drive support 1.0.2 — Bug fixes 1.0.0 — Initial release: Quick PDF, Clean PDF, Save to Drive, AI abstracts, shareable links, smart filename templates