pdfedit.
$ pdfedit --annotate --forms --ocr --redact
A full PDF editor: pdfedit reads, annotates and organizes PDFs for free — and with pdfedit inked edits text, images and vectors down to the smallest detail. Annotations stay Acrobat-compatible. Native for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Try it now — beta
The beta is out — for macOS, Windows and Linux. Lean, native, with signed in-app updates. Renderer and PDF engine land piece by piece as updates, changelog included. pdfedit inked follows later.
Downloads go live shortly — we’re still testing the beta ourselves.
One editor that does it all
// read, annotate, organize, edit
PDF Expert doesn’t exist for Linux, PDF24 not for the Mac, and Acrobat Pro costs many times more. pdfedit takes the bar set by all three — as one native app for all three systems.
// annotate
Annotations without compromise
Comments, highlights, stamps, shapes and freehand — stored to the ISO 32000 standard. Everything stays visible and further editable in Acrobat, PDF Expert & co.; nothing ends up in a proprietary overlay.
// tools
The complete toolbox
Merge, split, rotate, reorder, compress, fill forms and sign — free, the way you know it from PDF24. Just native, offline and on all three systems.
// full editing
Down to the smallest detail
Paragraphs with real reflow, images, vector objects, a form designer, OCR and true redaction — the Acrobat Pro class, as pdfedit inked for €1 a month.
// the LAN-SOLO way
Native & honest
No Electron bloat, no forced cloud, no telemetry: contracts and documents stay on your device. And Linux is not a footnote — it’s a first-class citizen.
// And since we keep it honest: PDFs with exotic font subsets put limits on text editing — pdfedit marks substituted characters instead of pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
Features
// planned for version 1.0
Annotations & comments
Highlight, comment, stamp, draw — fully ISO 32000, including replies and status. Compatible with Acrobat & co., in both directions.
Forms & signatures
Fill and flatten AcroForm forms, sign with an image or a digital signature (PAdES) — and verify signatures from others.
Organize pages
Merge, split, rotate and reorder via drag & drop — and shrink documents without it showing.
Edit text & imagesinked
Right inside the PDF: paragraphs with real line reflow, replace and align images, edit vector objects — down to the smallest detail.
OCR for scansinked
Turn scanned documents into searchable, editable text locally — the file never leaves your device for it.
True redactioninked
Actually removes content from the file — text, image regions and metadata — instead of just drawing black boxes over it.
Pricing
// read & annotate for free — inked edits everything
Free
Read, annotate, organize
- Read PDFs with tabs, search and bookmarks
- ISO 32000 annotations — Acrobat-compatible
- Fill forms & sign (PAdES)
- Merge, split, rotate and compress pages
- Native for macOS, Windows and Linux — no account, no telemetry
inked
Edit everything
- Everything in Free
- Edit text with real reflow, images & vector objects
- OCR for scanned documents — locally
- True redaction & metadata cleaning
- Create & edit forms
- Priority updates
Free stays free — for good, no strings attached. pdfedit inked: €12 a year, that’s €1 a month. Incl. VAT, billed yearly, cancel anytime.
// Honest as always: pdfedit measures itself against the PDF specification (ISO 32000), not every Acrobat niche — XFA forms, for instance, are officially deprecated and are display-only. And where embedded font subsets limit text editing, pdfedit marks substituted characters instead of hiding it.