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PdfCraft

PdfCraft covers the everyday Acrobat jobs — viewing, annotating, reorganising pages, extracting content — as a native app with no upload step, plus a command-line build for batch work.
Replaces
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Licence
Apache-2.0
Latest release
v0.9.0
Released
2026-10-18
Source
storytold

In the maintainer's words

“PdfCraft: An open-source PDF reader and editor written by scratch in pure Rust”— repository description, github.com/storytold/pdfcraft

What PdfCraft is built to do

  • Fast vector-sharp page rendering
  • Annotation set: highlight, note, shape, signature
  • Page reorder, delete, extract, merge, split
  • Text and image extraction
  • Form filling, Fill & Sign and comment replies
  • Companion CLI (pdfcraft-cli) for batch operations — macOS and Linux x86_64 / aarch64 builds

These are the workflow areas the project targets. Implementation status changes release to release — confirm against the repository before relying on a specific behaviour.

What changed in PdfCraft v0.9.0

  • Redaction overlays are bounded and reused; the last saved revision survives undo.
  • Drop files on the Pages panel to insert pages, and dragging a text selection to the view edge scrolls it.
  • Form fields are detected on scanned pages, and Fill & Sign text reads across rotated pages.
  • Vietnamese interface plus date localisation; Sinhala and Tamil text draw with an installed font.

Summarised from the release notes upstream published on 2026-10-18. Read the full list on the PdfCraft v0.9.0 release page ↗.

Download PdfCraft

PdfCraft is distributed by its own maintainers through GitHub releases. Nothing here is re-hosted, mirrored or repackaged, which is exactly why these links stay current when a new build lands.

PdfCraft v0.9.0 · upstream GitHub releases

All release assets ↗
  • macOS UniversalDMGGet
  • Windows x64MSIGet
  • Windows ARM64MSIGet
  • Windows x86 (32-bit)MSIGet
  • Windows x64 portableZIPGet
  • Linux x86_64 AppImageAppImageGet
  • Linux x86_64 debdebGet
  • Linux x86_64 rpmrpmGet
  • Linux x86_64 flatpakflatpakGet
  • Linux aarch64 debdebGet
  • Linux riscv64 debdebGet
  • FreeBSD x86_64TAR.GZGet
  • Command-line build (macOS)ZIPGet
  • Browser buildZIPGet
  • Command-line build (Linux x86_64)TAR.GZGet
  • Command-line build (Linux aarch64)TAR.GZGet
  • SHA-256 sumsTXTGet

Files are served by GitHub from the upstream repository — this project is not distributed through this site. Verify the download against SHA256SUMS.txt in the same release.

Platforms: macOS Universal · Windows x64 / ARM64 / x86 · Linux x86_64 / aarch64 / riscv64 · FreeBSD x86_64

PdfCraft vs Adobe Acrobat Pro

AspectPdfCraftAdobe Acrobat Pro
PriceFree, Apache-2.0Acrobat subscription
Where PDFs goNowhere — localOptional cloud services
Batch automationBundled CLIAction Wizard / PDF Services API
Signing at scaleNot a serviceDocument Cloud workflows
SourceOpenProprietary

Source, licence and building

The repository carries the licence text, issue tracker and release notes. Apache-2.0 permits commercial use, modification and redistribution with attribution notices preserved. If you prefer to compile it yourself, clone the repo and follow its README for the pinned Rust toolchain.

Open repository ↗Official project page ↗Suite-wide comparison

PdfCraft FAQ

Can PdfCraft redact reliably?

Redaction is being hardened rather than finished: v0.9.0 bounds and reuses repeated redaction overlays, and upstream measures searchable OCR against a 300 DPI synthetic scan. Do not trust a visual black box — export, then run a text extractor over the result and confirm the content is gone before you send anything.

Is there a server or API version?

The release ships pdfcraft-cli for macOS universal plus Linux x86_64 and aarch64 tarballs, which is what scripted and batch work uses. There is no hosted PDF API.

Does it fill and submit AcroForms?

Form filling is in scope; submit-to-server behaviour on exotic forms should be tested per document.

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