PDF Viewer Editor
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PDF Viewer Editor, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PDF Viewer Editor's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| PDF Viewer Editor | Free | MIT-licensed open-source desktop PDF viewer and editor |
The facts
Each one read from PDF Viewer Editor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility
- The project says critical paths support WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard navigation, and Windows Narrator, while also documenting pointer-centric gaps.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Annotations and signing
- It supports annotations, visual signatures, and PAdES cryptographic signatures.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Editing
- It supports page operations including extracting, splitting, replacing, cropping, combining, inserting, and rotating pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export
- It exports PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and image formats.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Form creation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Forms and mail merge
- It supports filling and designing AcroForm fields and mail merge using CSV or XLSX data sources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project states that it is licensed under MIT.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limits
- The built-in Preflight and Accessibility Checker cover subsets of their respective standards, and the project documents deferred or unavailable checks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR
- It runs local OCR using Tesseract.js, with English bundled and nine additional language packs available for download.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PDF conversion
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- Telemetry is off by default; when enabled, it records anonymous feature-usage counts in an inspectable in-memory buffer, and the project says nothing leaves the machine.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PDF Viewer Editor is a desktop application for viewing and editing PDF files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scanning
- Scanning through a connected WIA scanner is supported on Windows; the scanner feature is unavailable on macOS and Linux.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security features
- It includes password encryption using bundled qpdf and tools to redact documents or remove hidden information.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- macOS and Linux support
- Build configurations exist for macOS and Linux, but the project says those builds have not been verified on real hardware.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- windows,macos,linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Windows support
- Windows x64 is the only platform the project says is verified to run.checked 11 Oct 2026
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