PDF Editor Offline

A free PDF editor that runs on your machine. No account, no upload step, no cloud storage.

Project Site

Open the live project site: PDF Editor Offline Project Site.

The self-contained local copy lives at site/index.html. It includes product docs, screenshots, sample PDFs, API/CLI notes, and release checks.

PDF Editor Offline gives you a web app, API server, CLI, and Python package for common PDF work:

• Edit pages, annotations, images, metadata, watermarks, and signatures
• Merge, split, rotate, crop, resize, compress, repair, protect, and unlock PDFs
• Convert PDF to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JPG, Markdown, TXT, EPUB, SVG, and PDF/A
• Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Markdown, TXT, CSV, JSON, HTML, and images to PDF
• Clean metadata, remove hidden data, redact page areas, and clear app temp files
• Run OCR and batch jobs locally

Screenshots

Captured from the local web app with the sample PDFs in examples/sample_pdfs/.

Editor workspace	Text search and redaction

File attachments	Merge PDFs

More captures are in screenshots/, including image insertion, privacy cleanup, and PDF-to-TXT conversion.

Install

Install the published Python package and CLI from PyPI:

pip install pdf-editor-offline

Verify the install:

pdf-editor-offline --version
python -c "import pdf_editor_offline; print(pdf_editor_offline.__version__)"

From source:

git clone https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/pdf-editor-offline.git
cd pdf-editor-offline
pip install -e ".[dev]"

The PyPI package includes the Python API and CLI. Run the full local web app from a source checkout because the frontend is a separate React application.

Docker:

docker pull othmaneblial/pdf-editor-offline
docker run -p 8000:8000 othmaneblial/pdf-editor-offline

Run The App

Start the backend and frontend together:

./start.sh

Open http://localhost:3000.

Manual startup:

PYTHONPATH=. python -m uvicorn api.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --reload

cd frontend
npm install
VITE_API_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000" npm run dev -- --port 3000

CLI

pdf-editor-offline --version
pdf-editor-offline extract text input.pdf
pdf-editor-offline extract images input.pdf --output-dir ./images
pdf-editor-offline edit metadata input.pdf title "Quarterly Report"
pdf-editor-offline edit delete-page input.pdf 0 --output output.pdf
pdf-editor-offline inspect object-tree input.pdf
pdf-editor-offline add image input.pdf stamp.png 0 100 120 180 80 --output stamped.pdf

Python

from pdf_editor_offline import PDFConverter, PDFManipulator

converter = PDFConverter()
converter.pdf_to_word("input.pdf", "output.docx")

manipulator = PDFManipulator()
manipulator.merge_pdfs(["file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"], "merged.pdf")

Develop

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Frontend:

cd frontend
npm install
npm test

Full local check:

./run_ci.sh

Release checklist:

pytest
cd frontend && npm test && npm run build
docker build -t pdf-editor-offline .
python -m build

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md for public release history.

Sample PDFs

Small demo PDFs live in examples/sample_pdfs/:

• demo-basic.pdf for page editing, annotations, and exports
• demo-redaction.pdf for permanent redaction checks
• demo-privacy.pdf for metadata and hidden-data cleanup

Project Layout

api/                 FastAPI app
frontend/            React app
pdf_editor_offline/  Python package and CLI
examples/            Example scripts
examples/sample_pdfs/ Small local demo PDFs
tests/               Integration tests

License

MIT. See LICENSE.