Scan documents, recognise their text and arrange pages into searchable PDFs.
Free desktop app · GPL-2.0-or-later · No scan/OCR quota · Windows, macOS and Linux
Notes, tasks & docs
PdfCraft
Free optionOpen sourceAlphaLocal
Read and edit PDF documents on your desktop.
What you can use it for
Read and edit PDF documents on your desktop.
- Public source and desktop releases provided by the ArtCraft team.
Workflow coverage and comparison notes
Experimental PDF editing and page organization instead of Acrobat Pro; basic PDF viewing is already free.
Before you switch
Alpha software; not hands-on tested by us. Alpha; free reading is not an Acrobat Pro replacement. Actual paid text/page-editing workflows must be verified. Save, reopen and export reliability are not established; keep backups of important work.
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