About Nekhen — Who Runs It and How the Tools Work

What Nekhen is

Nekhen is a collection of 15 small web tools for the jobs that come up constantly and never justify installing an application: shrinking a photo so it clears an upload limit, pulling three pages out of a long PDF, turning a link into a QR code for a printed menu, counting the words in a draft, or generating a password that is genuinely random.

They are grouped into 5 areas — qr & barcode (2), images (4), pdf (5), text & data (2), passwords & ids (2) — and the full list is on the tools page. A tool only appears there once it works end to end; nothing on this site is listed as “coming soon”.

How the tools actually work

Nekhen is a static website. There is no application server, no upload endpoint and no job queue behind it. When you open a tool, the page arrives as plain HTML and brings a small amount of JavaScript with it; that script is what does the work, running inside your own browser tab on your own device.

The processing is done by well-known open-source engines that ship with the page rather than by anything Nekhen invented: barcode symbols are drawn by bwip-js, QR codes by the qrcode library, PDFs are assembled with pdf-lib and rendered with Mozilla's PDF.js, and image work uses the browser's own canvas. Because all of that runs locally, the result exists only in the tab's memory until you download it — which also means we cannot recover a file for you, having never had it.

What Nekhen does not do

No account, no sign-up and no email address is required to use anything here.
No file you open in a tool is uploaded. Every tool in this release processes its input on your device.
No watermark, no page limit, no file-size upsell and no paid tier.
No third-party CDN. Fonts and processing libraries are served from this site's own server, so loading a page does not announce your visit to another company.
No analytics service is loaded in this release, and no cookie is set for advertising or profiling. The privacy policy covers this in full.

How it is paid for

Nothing, at present. Nekhen carries no advertising, no sponsorship and no affiliate links today, and there is nothing to buy. Running costs are hosting and a domain. The site is built so that display advertising could be added later — in reading positions below the tool, never inside a workspace or beside a download button — and if that happens, the ads will be labelled and the privacy policy will be updated before they appear, not after.

Accuracy and limits

The tools are useful, not authoritative. Compression discards detail on purpose and cannot be undone, a rendered PDF page is an image rather than searchable text, and how large a file you can process depends on your device's memory rather than on a server we control. Keep your original before you process it. The terms of service set out the rest.

Contact

Nekhen has no public email address at the moment, so this page deliberately does not print one. An address that silently bounces is worse than none. A contact route will be published here once it exists and has been tested.