PdfZero
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PdfZero, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PdfZero's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | No file size limit · No task limits · No sign-up · Free |
The facts
Each one read from PdfZero's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- License
- The repository identifies PdfZero as MIT licensed.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Notable limits
- The README says adding, replacing, and removing images is coming soon, and describes current text editing as an overlay-and-repair exporter rather than full object-level editing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- OCR
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline use
- The README says PdfZero works offline.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Optimization
- PdfZero lists browser-native object stream compression and a PDF/A compliance check.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Page tools
- The listed page tools include merging, splitting by page range, reordering, rotating, and extracting pages.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The README says files are processed locally in the browser, with no uploads, backend, tracking, or analytics.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security tools
- The README lists AES-256 password protection, password removal, permanent redaction, and text watermarks.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support and contributions
- The README invites pull requests and asks contributors to open an issue before major changes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Technology
- The listed implementation libraries include pdf-lib, PDF.js, Tesseract.js, React, Zustand, and Vite.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Users can edit existing text in place, add text boxes, and change font family, size, color, bold, and italic.checked 12 Oct 2026
- What it does
- PdfZero is an open-source PDF editor for editing text in PDFs in a browser.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Planned features
- OCR and AI font matching are marked as coming soon.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- webchecked 20 Sep 2026
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