PreservePDF
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PreservePDF, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PreservePDF's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | No sign-up required · Free and open source under the MIT license |
The facts
Each one read from PreservePDF's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Additional tools
- Users can add text boxes, redaction blocks, and signatures with drag-and-drop tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Annotation tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- The FAQ says it can be deployed anywhere that runs Next.js, including Vercel's free tier.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Find and replace
- The tool can find and replace text such as names, dates, and numbers across pages.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Font limit
- Edited text uses standard PDF fonts, Latin text is fully supported, and specialised embedded or non-Latin fonts may fall back to a closest match.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- PreservePDF is open source under the MIT license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local processing
- PDF rendering, text extraction, OCR, and editing happen in the browser, and documents do not leave the device.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mobile use
- The interface is mobile responsive and works on phones and tablets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- OCR
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline use
- The maker says PreservePDF works offline.checked 12 Oct 2026
- PDF export
- Edited documents export as genuine PDFs rather than flattened images.checked 12 Oct 2026
- PDF restrictions
- It can remove owner-level restrictions, but PDFs protected by an open password require the user to enter that password first.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PreservePDF edits PDF text while aiming to keep the original fonts, spacing, and formatting.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scanned PDFs
- On-device Tesseract.js OCR turns scanned image-only documents into editable text.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Users can contact the maker by email or open a GitHub issue or discussion; the contact page says it will respond as soon as it can.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Text editing
- Users can click text on a PDF page and edit it in place.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- webchecked 20 Sep 2026
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