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Bring in an article

Choose one of the ways below. You can change your mind at any step.

Options

Open a page you've downloaded

In Chrome, open the article, tap ⋮ then the download arrow. Then choose it here. PDFs work too.

Paste

Long-press the article, Select all, Copy

Try a sample

See how it works first

Chemical labels? Try KernSDS

Decant labels and chemical cards from a safety data sheet

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Drop a saved web page or a PDF here

In Edge or Chrome, press Ctrl S and choose Webpage, Single File. PDFs, such as safety alerts, open the same way. A safety data sheet goes straight to KernSDS, for labels.

Quickest: the Send to KernPDF button sends any article here in one click.
More ways in
Fetch a web address
Paste the address and press Fetch article. In the browser version most sites refuse this; the desktop app can fetch any public page.
Fetch website pictures through kernpdf.com
Most websites block other pages from reading their pictures. With this on, kernpdf.com fetches them by their web address. Your article never leaves your device.
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Save web articles as clean, readable PDFs

KernPDF keeps the words and the pictures and leaves out the ads, menus and pop-ups. Choose what to keep, pick a style, and add a proper APA 7th, Harvard or AGLC4 reference. Turn a safety alert or an article into a branded one-page brief or a PowerPoint slide for a toolbox talk, and keep a library of everything you've read. It's free, there's no sign-up, and everything stays on your device.

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    Two tools, both free, and nothing leaves your device

    A web article as a clean PDF page
    KernPDFWeb articles to clean PDFsKeep the words and pictures, lose the ads. Add a reference, or make a one-page brief. You're here: bring in an article on the left
    A decant label with hazard pictograms
    KernSDSChemical labels from an SDSDecant labels sized to the container, and chemical cards, from the supplier's safety data sheet. Open KernSDS →

    Your PDF appears here once you bring in an article.

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    Step 3 of 4

    Style and layout

    Plain, one columnNo pages yet
    Presets
    What are you making?
    A brief is a branded one-pager with key points, a quote and discussion questions, as a PDF or a one-slide PowerPoint.
    Style
    Document colour
    Large first letter
    First paragraph as the abstract
    Text
    Fonts
    Body textHeadings
    Text size 11 pt Headings
    Line spacing
    Justify text
    Show the title
    Page
    Margins
    Columns
    Line between columns
    Fit to
    Shrinks text and pictures just enough to fit.
    Page numbers
    Pictures
    Picture size
    Each picture can override this in its own settings. Picture quality
    Smaller file compresses the pictures more, for email or uploads with a size limit.
    Links and citation
    Links in the article
    Numbered notes keep the text clean and list each web address at the end, ready to click. Citation line
    Bookmarks for the headings
    Shows the headings in your PDF reader's bookmarks panel, so you can jump to any section.
    Source address under the title
    Add to the library
    Options
    Save to
    Not chosenPDFs go to your Downloads folder
    How new files are named
    2026-10-21 - Article title.pdf
    Site rules
    None yet
    Open the PDF after saving
    "Built with KernPDF" in the footer
    A small line at the foot of your PDFs, briefs and slides. Thank you for leaving it on: it's how others find KernPDF.
    Opens your phone's share menu: Teams, WhatsApp, email, Drive, Files.
    Ctrl + S to save · Ctrl + P to print · ? for shortcuts
    Drop it hereA saved web page opens as a new article. Pictures are added after the selected block.
    KernMind the gaps. Keep the words.

    Before you start
    KernKernPDF. Mind the gaps. Keep the words.

    KernPDF is free to use. If it saves you time, you can support it through PayPal. Thank you.

    KernPDF uses pdf-lib (MIT licence), PDF.js (Apache 2.0) and, when online, Mozilla Readability (Apache 2.0). Included fonts: Caladea (Copyright 2012 The Caladea Project Authors), Carlito (Copyright 2013 The Carlito Project Authors) and Poppins (Copyright 2020 The Poppins Project Authors), all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
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    Pictures in this article

    Pictures from a page saved as "Webpage, Single File" always work. Pasted or fetched articles depend on the website, or on the picture fetcher at kernpdf.com.
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    Welcome

    Reference details

    KernPDF fills these in from the page. Check them against the source and fix anything missing or wrong.

    All items

    Use for new saves

    Export to CSV

    A spreadsheet of your references that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers.

    What to export
    Columns, in this order
    Reference no.Date accessedTitlePublisherAuthorDate of publicationDOI or linkReference
    Dates are written as 2026-10-23, so they sort correctly.

    That's the tour. Tidy up?

    The tour made these while you tried things out:

    The PDF you saved is kept as a file, in your Downloads or save folder. Delete it there if you don't want it.

    Site rules

    What KernPDF strikes out for you on each site. They only strike out; you can always click a block to keep it.

    Offer a rule when I strike out the same thing twice on a site

    Files gone from your Library folder

    were deleted, or moved out of the Library folder, outside KernPDF. Ticked items come out of that project in your library. Items stay in your library, with their references, either way.

    New project

    Keyboard shortcuts

    Anywhere

    Ctrl VPaste an article or a picture Ctrl SSave the PDF Ctrl PPrint the PDF ?Show these shortcuts 1 2 3 4Go to a step: bring in, choose, style, save EscClose a window like this one

    In the content list

    ClickSelect a block, and open it to edit its text or caption Ctrl + clickAdd a block to the selection Shift + clickSelect everything between two blocks SpaceStrike out the selected blocks, or bring them back DeleteStrike out the selected blocks Ctrl ZUndo the last strike-out (step 2) Drag the gripMove a block up or down

    In the guide

    ← →Previous or next step
    On a Mac, use Cmd in place of Ctrl.

    What's new in KernPDF

    Bring in an article on your phone

    1. Open the article in Chrome and scroll to the end, so every picture has loaded.
    2. Tap ⋮ (top right), then the download arrow at the top of the menu. Chrome saves the page, pictures and all.
    3. Come back to KernPDF and tap Choose file. The page is in your Downloads; it may be called after the article's title.
    PDFs, such as safety alerts, open the same way. Other browsers: use Share then Print and save it as a PDF, or copy the article and tap Paste.

    The Send to KernPDF button

    Drag this button onto your browser's bookmarks bar:
    Send to KernPDF
    1. Can't see the bookmarks bar? Press Ctrl Shift B (Cmd Shift B on a Mac) to show it, then drag the button up.
    2. Open any article and scroll to the end, so every picture has loaded.
    3. Click Send to KernPDF. KernPDF opens in a new tab with the article ready to edit.
    4. If a website blocks the hand-over, KernPDF opens empty and asks you to press Ctrl V. The article is already on your clipboard.
    On a phone, or the button won't drag?

    Copy the button's code, add a bookmark to any page, then edit the bookmark: name it Send to KernPDF and paste the code in place of its address. On a phone, open an article, type Send to KernPDF in the address bar, and tap the bookmark.

    The button only sends the page you're looking at, and only when you click it. It also leaves a copy of the article on your clipboard, in case the website blocks the hand-over.

    Use a font from this computer

    TrueType fonts work best. A font's licence can stop it being embedded in documents; KernPDF will tell you if so.