SafePDF - Privacy-First PDF Toolkit

SafePDF is a free, open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. It merges, splits, compresses, converts, rotates and repairs PDFs entirely on your own device — your sensitive documents never leave your computer.

Why SafePDF?

100% Offline - No cloud uploads, no internet required
Fast & Lightweight - Operations run directly on your device
Privacy First - Ideal for sensitive documents (legal, healthcare, financial)
Multi-language - English, German, Turkish support

Read more: The Security Concerns of Online PDF Tools

Features

• Compress - Reduce PDF file size with quality control
• Split - Separate PDFs by pages or custom ranges
• Merge - Combine multiple PDF files into one
• Convert to Images - Export PDF pages as JPG/JPEG
• Rotate - Rotate pages (90°, 180°, 270°)
• Repair - Fix corrupted PDF files
• Convert to Word - Export PDF as DOCX documents
• Extract Text - Extract plain text from PDFs
• Extract Info - View PDF metadata and properties

Interface Features:

• Drag & drop file selection
• Real-time progress tracking
• Multi-language UI
• Modern, intuitive design

Quick Start

Option 1: Download Executable (Recommended)

1. Download the latest release from Releases
2. Extract the ZIP file
3. Run SafePDF.exe

Option 2: Install from PyPI

Requirements:

• Python 3.8+
• pip

Installation:

# Install from PyPI
pip install SafePDF

# Optional extras
# OCR support: pip install "SafePDF[ocr]"
# All optional extras: pip install "SafePDF[full]"

# Run the app
safepdf

Option 3: Run from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mcagriaksoy/SafePDF.git
cd SafePDF

# Install core dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Optional extras
# OCR support: pip install ".[ocr]"
# All optional extras: pip install ".[full]"

# Run the application
python run_safe_pdf.py

OCR note: OCR uses Tesseract. Install the Python extra with SafePDF[ocr] and make sure the Tesseract OCR application is installed on your system as well.

How to Use

1. Select Operation - Choose what you want to do (compress, split, merge, etc.)
2. Select File - Drag & drop your PDF or click to browse
3. Adjust Settings - Configure operation-specific options
4. Execute - Click to process your file
5. View Results - See output and open the processed file

Development

Project Structure

SafePDF/
├── SafePDF/
│   ├── ctrl/           # Controllers
│   ├── ui/             # User interface
│   ├── ops/            # PDF operations
│   ├── logger/         # Logging
│   └── text/           # Localization files
├── docs/               # Marketing website (safepdf.de)
├── run_safe_pdf.py     # Main launcher
└── requirements.txt    # Dependencies

Website

The marketing site lives in docs/ and is published at safepdf.de. It is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step:

cd docs
python3 -m http.server 8000
# open http://localhost:8000

The homepage and the converter pages are also available in German (docs/de/) and Turkish (docs/tr/). Language switching uses real, static URLs so search engines index each language separately — no client-side machine translation.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

• Report bugs via Issues
• Submit pull requests for improvements
• Follow existing code style

Support

• Website: safepdf.de · Deutsch · Türkçe
• Guides: Offline PDF tools · Secure PDF processing
• Email: info@safepdf.de
• Bug reports & feature requests: GitHub Issues

License

Released under GPL-3.0 by @mcagriaksoy.

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