PdfCraft

Product Overview

PdfCraft is a free, open source PDF workbench from ArtCraft, written from the ground up in Rust. Read, organize, combine, split, and secure PDFs in a fast native app with no account, no telemetry, and no cloud. Faithful rendering handles world scripts, vertical Japanese, color emoji, and transparency with zero crashes across a 983-file test corpus. Search as you type with instant find and text selection that follows the document's real reading order. Organize pages like cards with rotate, delete, insert, and reorder behind deep undo. Combine, extract, and split documents while keeping links, form fields, layers, and bookmarks intact. Incremental atomic saves with autosave and crash recovery. Built-in security opens everything from RC4 to AES-256 encryption and honors author permissions. Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web.

Best For

Best for users who want a free, private, open source tool to read, organize, combine, split, and secure PDFs without cloud upload

Key Features

• Faithful rendering: world scripts, vertical Japanese, emoji
• Search as you type with reading-order text selection
• Organize pages: rotate, delete, insert, reorder
• Combine, extract, split with links and bookmarks intact
• Incremental atomic saves with autosave and crash recovery
• RC4 to AES-256 encryption support
• Threaded comments and command palette
• Two-up read mode with dark theme
• No account, no telemetry, no cloud
• Free and open source