Free tool · PDF link generator
Turn a PDF into a link
Share a PDF as a link your reader opens in any browser, and see when it was opened. Drop the PDF here to check it first: pages, size and the links inside it, read in your browser with nothing uploaded.
Drop a PDF on the left to see its pages here, the way your reader will.
Publishing a PDF needs a free account. Free for 2 public pages. A published page is noindex and visible to anyone with the link unless you add a password (Solo and Team). Phishing and pages built to collect other people’s passwords or card details are taken down.
How it works
PDF to link in three steps
Drop the PDF here
The check above reads the file in your browser: page count, size, the links inside it, and anything Pagelive would refuse. Nothing is uploaded.
Sign up free and publish
In your dashboard, click Publish page and choose the PDF, or drop it anywhere on the dashboard. Pagelive checks it again and gives you a link.
Send the link
Your reader opens it in any browser, with no app and no account, and pages through it. You see that it was opened.
What the link does
Share a PDF as a link you can track
See which pages they read
Every PDF link counts its views. On Solo and Team you also see unique viewers, time on page, and for each page of the PDF how many visits reached it, how long they stayed and where they stopped.
Replace the file, keep the link
Sent a version with a typo? Upload the corrected PDF to the same page and the link you already shared shows the new file. Free on every plan.
Checked before it goes live
PDFs that are encrypted, run JavaScript, carry attached files, launch programs or submit forms are refused, and the links inside a PDF go through the same checks as links on any Pagelive page.
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Sign up free, click Publish page in your dashboard and choose the PDF. Pagelive checks the file and publishes it on its own page with a link you can send. Your reader opens the link in a browser and sees the PDF page by page, with zoom and keyboard controls, and on a phone it fits the screen. A free account takes PDFs up to 10 MB; Solo and Team take up to 25 MB.
Both: it hosts the PDF and gives it a URL. Free for 2 public pages. A PDF counts as one page. Pages are noindex by default, so search engines are asked not to list them. Solo is $15/mo and adds passwords, custom domains and full view tracking.
Every page counts its views, and on Free you get an email for the first open. Solo and Team add unique viewers, time on page, countries and referrers, and for a PDF the pages each visit reached and where it stopped. On Solo and Team, a recipient link per person or an email gate also tells you who it was.
On Solo and Team you can put a password or an email gate in front of the PDF. The Download button is on by default, and you can turn it off on any plan. That removes the button, but it does not stop a determined reader from saving the file, because the PDF has to reach their browser to be shown.
No. The check and the preview run in your browser, and nothing you drop here is sent to a server. The PDF leaves your device only when you publish it from your account.