Pooch PDF — Web Page to PDF & Drive

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 o…