Tablet PDF Editor

Visual drag-and-drop PDF editor matching Canva-like usability, built with Python.

Tech Stack

• Rendering: PyMuPDF (fitz) for 60FPS page rendering
• Editing: pikepdf for structural changes, ReportLab for vector overlays
• OCR: Tesseract for scanned PDF text extraction
• UI: PyQt6 for native desktop experience

Prerequisites

• Python 3.12+
• Tesseract OCR: Windows | macOS: brew install tesseract | Linux: sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
• qpdf (for pikepdf): Windows | macOS: brew install qpdf | Linux: sudo apt install qpdf

Setup

git clone <repo-url> && cd pycanvas-pdf
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python src/main.py

Features

• Tabbed interface with drag-and-drop page editing
• Text block editing with original font style preservation
• Image/shape overlay support
• Full undo/redo stack
• OCR for scanned PDFs
• Linearized, compressed export