PatchworkPDF
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PatchworkPDF, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PatchworkPDF's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | No subscription · no licence key · no upsell |
The facts
Each one read from PatchworkPDF's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotations
- Sticky notes, highlights, and shapes are saved as native PDF annotations that the site says remain interactive in Acrobat, Foxit, and other modern readers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Audience
- The maker describes revision and markup tools as suited to engineering drawing review workflows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compression
- Compression offers Screen, Balanced, and Print presets, plus custom DPI and JPEG quality settings.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export
- The app saves through a native operating-system Save As dialog with suggested filenames and a fallback for browsers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Images
- Users can import PNG or JPEG images, resize and position them on a page, and bake them into the PDF on apply.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site names Tesseract OCR as an optional dependency and says native annotations are interactive in Acrobat and Foxit; it does not list other integrations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable dependency
- OCR requires Tesseract to be installed for automatic recognition on scanned pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR
- Image-only pages are recognised automatically when Tesseract is installed, and the capability list also describes on-demand OCR.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy and access
- The maker states that no account is required and describes the software as open source, with source available to read, audit, fork, or improve.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- PatchworkPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor for merging, reordering, annotating, rotating, compressing, and editing PDF text.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Revision workflows
- The editor includes revision clouds, copy and paste, and undo, and the maker says it is built with engineering drawings in mind.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Users can move, retype, or delete existing page text and add text overlays with font, size, and colour controls.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The site credits Gareth Finch and shows 2026; it does not state a headquarters or founding date.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The maker's site lists Windows, macOS, and Linux; its SourceForge files page shows Windows, a macOS Intel disk image, and a Linux Flatpak.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows,macOS,Linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
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