PDF Editor
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PDF Editor, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PDF Editor's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free and open-source | Free | No paid tier · AGPL-3.0 |
The facts
Each one read from PDF Editor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Digital signatures
- It supports cryptographic PDF signatures using a user's PKCS#12 certificate or a self-signed certificate.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- Windows downloads are provided as an installer or a portable ZIP, and the portable build requires no installation or administrator access.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editing
- It can edit existing PDF text in place and move, resize, replace, or delete images.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Notable limits
- Form filling and full text reflow are out of scope.checked 12 Oct 2026
- OCR
- OCR supports searching and extracting text from scanned or image-only PDFs, but does not write an OCR text layer back into the document.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline use
- The app runs on the user's computer, and documents are not uploaded to a cloud service.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Page tools
- It can merge PDFs, split them into ranges, and rotate, delete, reorder, extract, or insert pages.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Password protection
- It supports AES-256 open-password encryption and PDF permission settings for actions such as printing, editing, and copying.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- PDF Editor is a free, open-source desktop app for viewing and editing PDFs on Windows.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security limitation
- The maker says PDF permission flags are not a security boundary; the open password is the only cryptographic protection.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker asks users to report vulnerabilities privately through GitHub's private vulnerability reporting and says it will respond as soon as reasonably possible.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Update check
- The app checks GitHub's public releases API once a day without sending an account, identifier, or document information, and the automatic check can be disabled.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- Prebuilt and tested builds target Windows x64; the maker says building from source on other platforms may work but is not packaged or tested there.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- windowschecked 20 Sep 2026
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