You tell it what directories that you want to include/exclude from search, it indexes all the words and lets you search them, including scanned docs. Its pretty fast and I included and optional small semantic model so you can search for stuff without being exact in wording and it should still find it

I built this mainly for the EE's at work that have a ton of component datasheets and they mentioned that it would be cool if this existed, they liked the prototype a lot and pushed me to share it.
Recently i have also added some more useful features like comparing pdf's side by side, and a popup feature that allows you to "screenshot" a section of the pdf and have it always on top of other apps, smart search for graphs, tables, diagrams etc, fine tuning for scientific articles search, along with some other cool things.

It's free and runs completely locally for obvious privacy reasons. Try it out and lmk what you guys think. Its works on all platforms, windows, mac and linux its portable you even need to install anything. https://cavapdf.com

Disclosure: I’m the developer of this online PDF editor. There’s no paid tier, no sign-up, no page limit and no watermark.

The main reason I made it is that most online editors upload your file to their server. This one processes everything on your own device, so the PDF never leaves your computer. That matters for things like contracts or forms with personal details.

What it handles:

• Editing existing text: click a line, change it, and it goes back in the same spot and stays searchable

• Real redaction: redacted pages are saved as images, so no hidden text is left underneath. It can also find emails, phone numbers and card numbers for you, and strip metadata like the author name on download.

• Forms and signing: fill form fields and keep them fillable or flatten them. Signatures can be drawn, typed or uploaded.

• Pages: merge, split, reorder, rotate, extract, compress, and add page numbers, watermarks or headers and footers

• OCR in 13 languages, plus AES-256 password protection

• Export as PDF, PNG or JPG images, or plain text

It works best on a computer for long documents, but there’s a phone layout too.

https://webutility.io/pdf-editor

If it fails on a specific PDF, let me know what happened and I’ll look into it.

Well...★

I do have a pdf which is in gujarati language and i wants to translate it into English.

It consists of some pictures, rows and columns and i wants to keep the layout same. And the texts placed exact in those columns.

I want a suggestion for such powerful site. Paid sites are also welcomed...

My SVG editor now fully supports PDF editing, completely free and client side, no sign up, highly optimized for complex PDFs.

You can try it here:

https://tools-4all.com/svg-editor

Notice, it's an SVG editor first, meaning PDF files with forms or Javascript or signature will lose those properties (will become vector graphics), but text will be preserved and can be edited or added / removed, same for pictures, and of course, vectors!!

I need trusted pdf app or site for edit nd compressing fully free for windows.

GOT itttt !!!

Thank you btw you can gimme more suggestions, I would try that too.

Preparing materials for an online course often involves working with different file formats. You might have PDF handouts, scanned documents, screenshots, diagrams and images that need a bit of adjustment before they are ready for learners.

Sometimes, something as simple as converting an image, reducing its file size or removing a few pages from a file can take more time than expected when you have to use different tools for each task.

I have been looking at browser based tools that bring these basic file operations together. Some can handle image conversion, resizing, cropping and compression as well as PDF merging, splitting and page removal.

Another useful feature is local browser processing, where files are handled on your device rather than uploaded to an external conversion server.

For course creators and instructional designers who regularly prepare learning materials, having these options in one place can make some of the smaller parts of course preparation easier.15:08

Question for people who make fillable PDFs or forms: when a document needs to work both as a fillable PDF on screen and as a clean home print, do you place AcroForm fields over a print-first static layout, or keep separate screen and print versions? I’m especially curious about practical issues like fields expanding, font substitution, keyboard navigation, and whether field values remain visible in print output. I run a small Etsy shop making personalized digital PDFs; this is a general production question, not a request to review or promote a listing.

Hey everyone! I just released my first-ever app, PaperDesk. I wanted to make a useful PDF app that’s completely free, with no ads.

Here’s what it can do:

Edit PDF: Edit existing text and add text or images.
Annotate: Highlight, underline, and strike through text.
Draw: Add drawings, shapes, lines, and arrows.
Scanner: Photograph documents and clean up the scan.
Re-type document: Recreate photographed text and tables as a clean PDF.
Image to Text: Extract text from photos.
Fill & Sign: Add signatures, dates, and checkmarks.
Organize Pages: Reorder, rotate, or remove pages.
Protect PDF: Add password protection.
Redact PDF: Cover sensitive information.
Create PDF: Start a blank document.
Viewer: Read PDFs.

Document processing happens on your phone, including text recognition—your pages aren’t uploaded to an AI service.

It’s still very new, and I’m learning as I go, so there are definitely bugs and rough edges. If something breaks or doesn’t work the way you expect, please let me know! I’ll do my best to reproduce it and fix it. Suggestions are welcome too.

Thanks for giving my first app a try. I’d love to hear what you think!

Download PaperDesk:

Android (Google Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suntermakmursukses.paperdesk

iPhone & iPad (Apple App Store): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828523955

Completely free. No ads. No subscriptions.

I built Unpage, an app that turns any PDF into text that reflows to fit your phone, like an ebook. It's made for the hard stuff: two-column papers, tables, equations and figures come out readable instead of mangled. It all runs on your device, so nothing gets uploaded. Tap any paragraph to see exactly where it is on the original page, or read both side by side. Highlights show in both views, scans work too, and Pro exports EPUB for your e-reader. Free to try, and Pro is a one-time unlock, no subscription. Currently it's available on iOS and iPadOS, the Mac version is under review, should be out soon. Welcome to any bug report too.

Product page: https://unpagepdf.com/

Appstore link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unpage-pdf-reader/id6832379621

By the way my app's full name is Unpage: PDF Reader, on the App Store there is another one called Unpage: PDF Reflow Reader, which is different from mine.

I have an electrical supply house email me all my receipts for neater accounting. These email attachments are in a .docx format. [side annoyance is that every receipt file has the exact same filename!] So example is receipt.docx

In Yahoo web interface, when I click View on one of these receipt.docx attachments, I get the error, "Your file isn't available to preview." and a button "Download instead," OK, fine. When I download there or with regular download processes, the filename is always downloaded as receipt.pdf

I can't open receipt.pdf with Acrobat or Preview. I get the error that it can't be opened: "It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize." If I just change the extension back to .docx, it opens fine in Word.

What is going on here? Why would Yahoo Mail change the file extension? If I am sent a regular Word doc from any other email, it downloads as .docx no problem.

I need an efficient, free way to translate large, scanned PDF documents from Marathi to English.

The documents are entirely handwritten and contain hundreds of pages, making my current method, of taking screenshots and uploading them to Google Translate, too slow and impractical for bulk work.

Since this is an emergency, I need a free, fast, accurate workflow or tool that can handle large files or bulk translations. Any practical suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

So for work i do variable image programming for direct-mail print files. We use Quadient Inspire Designer (formerly GMC) to generate PDFs and it generally works very well and we don't have file size issues. Static/re-used images and text are stored once as XObjects and referenced over and over. Variable text is stored as pure strings and the font glyph-path information for the used characters is stored once and re-used over and over.

We have one client, however, that requires each recipient's name to not only be printed on the piece (simple enough) but the name has to go through an envelope warp, in addition to horizontally scaling to always be the same width regardless of name length. This is causing a problem for us because warping the text means it is no longer stored as characters with re-usable glyph paths, but instead as an entirely new vector shape for every name. The file size of the print files is humongous and chokes our system when transferring files to the server, and from server to spooler, and spooler to RIP, etc..

The several campaigns we've done for this client have been extremely painful, and looking into it, it appears PDF only supports stretching, skewing and/or rotating text, not envelope warps.

I guess i was wondering if anyone has heard of this issue being raised before, or any discussion of this being a limitation of the PDF format? And if so, what alternative formats would work better and allow it to store the warped names more efficiently?

We have around 200 pdf files that have to be updated every year and the only thing that changes for the most part is the year range. Currently we only have the standard version of adobe acrobat but if there was another program that could take care of this, I think it would be an easy sell. Even if it’s in batches, it’s better than manually going through the full list. Thanks

I got a long form to fill out from Social Security and all the text boxes were blue. When I click them they turn white and I can type. When I click away it turns blue again. The text is still there, just hidden behind the blue. I filled out the whole form like this, like 7 pages. But I notice if I try to print it the fields are blank. Opened it in PDFCraft and it's the same blue boxes. I opened it in irfanView (image viewer) and they're blank. I can't edit the form, it asks for a password.

Is there some way to get rid of the blue? I'm afraid if I send it to the SSA like this they won't be able to read it.

I've been trying a few tools to convert PDFs into Markdown, and honestly, the results can be pretty hit or miss.

Sometimes the text comes out fine, but tables get messed up, headings lose their structure, or the content ends up in the wrong order.

I'm curious how others deal with this.

Do you use a specific tool for PDF conversion, or do you still have to clean up the Markdown manually afterwards?

Would love to hear what's actually working for people.

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Most people review their resume by opening it and checking how it looks. But the file can contain information that never appears on the page:

• Author and Last Modified By names.

• Software used to create or export it.

• Creation and modification timestamps.

• Embedded links, including local file paths.

• Hidden text or instructions aimed at AI screening tools.

Some of this has ordinary explanations. A downloaded template can retain someone else’s author name, and getting help editing a resume doesn’t mean the experience is fabricated. The useful part is seeing what’s actually there.

I’m the founder of Lusentra, and I built a free checker that inspects those document properties and hidden layers in PDF and DOCX resumes.

For job seekers, it’s a way to inspect the file you’re submitting. For recruiters, it provides additional evidence to investigate alongside the application. It inspects the document; it cannot independently verify someone’s work history.

Try the resume metadata checker

What’s the strangest thing you’ve found inside a document’s metadata?

hey guys i made this cause in my college the prof.s upload the books in exe format
i hope it will help anyone had the same problem
https://github.com/AbdoSol1iman/flashbook-exe2pdf

ive downloaded like 50 and theyre all shit. i need one that can:

- append pages

- combine pdfs

- add text or draw on pages

- move pages in any order i like

- crop pages

-> Feedback very welcome!

Although it is one of many PDF readers, FreePDF64-Viewer Portable stands out by bringing powerful document tools together in a simple, portable application.

FreePDF64-Viewer Portable 3.1.3 – Free PDF Viewer with Side-by-Side Comparison, JavaScript Forms and True Portability

Version: 3.1.3
License: Freeware
Platform: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)

FreePDF64-Viewer Portable is a free, standalone PDF viewer for Windows. It combines fast document navigation, multi-PDF workflows, interactive form support and practical PDF editing tools without requiring installation.

A key feature is its dual-pane view for comparing two PDF documents side by side. Users can independently enable synchronized scrolling (S) and zooming (Z) from the left document to the right. The viewer also offers full-text search across all open PDFs and reusable workspaces.

Key features:

• Side-by-side PDF comparison with optional synchronized scrolling and zooming.

• Tabbed interface for multiple PDFs, including quick tab search.

• Full-text search across all open PDFs, with direct navigation to matches.

• Resizable page thumbnails and drag-and-drop page rearrangement.

• Interactive AcroForm fields, including text fields, checkboxes and radio buttons.

• PDFium-V8 JavaScript support for automatic form calculations, including results on other pages.

• Editing and saving supported static XFA forms, including synchronization of form data.

• Annotation tools, including text insertion, highlighting, comments and drawing tools.

• PDF attachments, bookmarks, page tools and reusable workspaces.

• Customizable user interface (themes): The following options are available: Standard, Modern Light, Windows Classic, Classic Blue.

• Update function.

• Add hyperlink, image and text watermark.

No installation is required. Settings are stored in the application directory, making the viewer suitable for USB drives and portable use. Static XFA support does not imply compatibility with every XFA form; dynamic XFA is not claimed.

Download (latest releases):
https://github.com/FreePDF64/FreePDF64ViewerPortable/raw/refs/heads/main/releases/FreePDF64-Viewer-Portable-3.1.3-Win64.zip

Project page:
https://github.com/FreePDF64/FreePDF64ViewerPortable

LICENSE NOTICES

FreePDF64-Viewer Portable is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL-3.0-only).

You may use, modify and redistribute the software under the terms of the GPL v3. The complete license text is included in the accompanying LICENSE file.

Source code see Project page.

Third-Party Components

FreePDF64-Viewer Portable uses PDFium and V8 under their respective open-source licenses.

The applicable license terms and copyright notices are provided in the accompanying PDFium subfolder (file LICENSE and folder licenses).

PDFium – PDF rendering engine, © The PDFium Authors.

V8 – JavaScript engine, © The V8 Project Authors.

Additional tools: QPDF and Xpdf, subject to their respective licenses.

FreePDF64-Viewer Portable is an independent project and is not an official PDFium, V8 or Google product.

The software is provided without warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Thank you for considering FreePDF64-Viewer Portable 3.1.3. Feedback and testing reports are always welcome!

Michael

Seeing everyday a new PDF editor now, I was thinking I might just use one week of Claude Pro to build one if it's that easy.
Because nobody is focusing on annotations and drawing on Bluebeam level. I worked on a consultancy company of 10,000 people and we don't care about quantity takeoff. We care about creating figures for our reports and presentations. That's the beauty of Bluebeam.
I can do AutoCAD, but I don't want to open it for every single figure.

If you don't know what's good about Bluebeam:
Callout with multileaders
Callout+ (highlight area plus callout)
Draw with scale (like 3 m line, 2 m radius circle)
Offset a line
Array a line (3 copies with 2 m distance)
Etc.