Privacy PDF Editor
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The facts
Each one read from Privacy PDF Editor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Anonymization
- Anonymization options remove active content, perform a full metadata wipe, or rasterize pages to images.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- The JavaScript libraries are vendored in the frontend, so the README says there is no CDN dependency.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The project documents Docker Compose deployment and says it runs on Raspberry Pi ARM64 or x86.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Deployment and security
- The project recommends running on a machine or LAN and says to add authentication if exposing it through a public tunnel.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment limitation
- The maker says the tool is not designed to be exposed as a public unauthenticated service and recommends adding authentication if using a public tunnel.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Editing
- The editor can merge PDFs, reorder, rotate, delete and extract pages, and apply tiled diagonal text watermarks.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Encrypted storage
- Ghost Vault stores files with per-file ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption and a scrypt key derivation function.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Encrypted vault
- Ghost Vault stores files with per-file ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption and uses scrypt for key derivation.checked 5 Oct 2026
- License
- The software is licensed under AGPL-3.0, which the project says requires modified versions, including network services, to remain open source under the same license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local processing
- Pages render in the browser, and the file is sent to the backend only when the user clicks Export.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Metadata
- Metadata tools can keep, clear, randomize or replace metadata, and the live reader shows document metadata.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other PDF tools
- The editor can compress PDFs using Ghostscript when available or pikepdf otherwise, and remove AES-256 PDF password encryption.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Page tools
- The editor can merge PDFs, reorder, rotate, delete or extract pages, and apply tiled diagonal text watermarks.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy limitation
- Clearing or randomizing metadata strips the PDF Info fields but does not remove attachments, annotations or form-field values; XMP is removed only by a full metadata wipe.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy scan
- A client-side privacy scan flags author and date metadata, XMP, JavaScript, attachments, annotations, form fields and signatures, and provides a privacy score.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Privacy PDF Editor is an open-source, self-hosted PDF editor described as a private alternative to online PDF tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The backend runs on Raspberry Pi ARM64 or x86, and deployment is provided through Docker Compose.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Technology
- The backend uses FastAPI and Python, while the frontend uses HTML, Tailwind, vanilla JavaScript and PDF.js.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Vault limits
- Ghost Vault has 12 fixed-size cells with tiers of 256 KB, 1 MB, 4 MB and 16 MB; file size reveals the tier but not the content.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The repository credits copyright to Cherif Jebali.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- web,self_hostedchecked 20 Sep 2026
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