Licence and terms of use
What you may do with these tools, and what the results are yours to do with.
You may use this for anything
Personal work, client work, commercial work — there is no distinction. You do not need a licence key, an attribution line, or permission to use the output in something you sell.
This licence is part of the DocuGrip terms of use and is read together with them; if the two ever differ, the terms of use apply.
The licence itself places no cap on volume: nothing in these terms restricts how many documents you may process or how you may use the output commercially. Operational limits — the daily allowance — belong to your plan rather than to this licence, and are set out on the pricing page.
What comes out is yours
We claim no rights over your documents or anything produced from them. Nothing is watermarked, nothing is registered, and the tools keep nothing.
This is not generosity, it is how the tools work: for browser tools we never had the file, so there was never a moment at which we could have claimed anything. A signature request is the one case where we hold a copy — encrypted, only until the request is finished, and only so that it can reach the people you invited.
What you may not do
Do not use the site to process material you have no right to, and do not use it to attack the service or the people using it.
Automated hammering that degrades the site for everyone else is the one thing that can get an address blocked. Ordinary heavy use is fine — that is what it is for.
No warranty
The tools are provided as they are. They are tested, measured and used daily, but no software is free of defects and we cannot promise a particular result for a particular file.
Keep your original. Every tool works on a copy and leaves your source file untouched, but a habit of keeping originals is good practice with any tool, ours included.
Built on open source
This site stands on work released by others: pdf-lib and pdf.js for reading and writing PDFs, qpdf for repair and optimisation, Tesseract for text recognition, libheif and libde265 for opening iPhone photos (HEIC) in browsers without a decoder of their own, and a number of smaller libraries.
They are used under their own licences and those licences are unaffected by this page. Both libheif and libde265 are under the GNU LGPL 3.0: we serve them unmodified as a separate file, with their licence and complete source code next to it (see docugrip.com/heic/NOTICE.txt). We mention them because it is right to, and because it tells you exactly what is doing the work.