PDFZero
PDFZero is an open-source, privacy-first PDF editor for editing text, running offline OCR, e-signing pages, and securing documents on-device.
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About PDFZero
PDFZero is an open-source, backend-free PDF editor released under the MIT license. It runs entirely on-device in WebAssembly using pdf-lib and PDF.js, ensuring zero network requests and keeping documents off external servers. Users can edit text in-place with automatic font detection, convert scanned documents into searchable text using offline Tesseract.js OCR, e-sign pages by drawing, typing, or uploading signatures, and manage security via 256-bit AES encryption or password removal. PDFZero offers all tools free without accounts, task limits, or server uploads.
- Availability:
- launched
- Access:
- free
- Format:
- software
- Platform:
- web
Pricing at launch: Free to use without accounts, task limits, or upload requirements.
Core capabilities
In-Place Text Editing
Edits existing text inside PDFs directly with automatic font detection.
Offline AI OCR
Scans and converts image or scanned PDFs into searchable and editable text offline using Tesseract.js.
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