PDF Editor v0.2.0

New: Portable (no-install) build 🎒

You can now run PDF Editor without installing it. Download
pdf-editor-portable-0.2.0.zip, extract it anywhere (a folder, a USB
stick), and run pdf-editor.exe inside the extracted pdf-editor\ folder — no
installer, no admin, no registry changes.

The portable build is self-contained: it keeps its diagnostics log in a
data\ folder next to the exe rather than in your user profile, so it leaves
nothing behind on the host machine. OCR is bundled just like the installed
build, and it's still single-instance. To make double-clicking PDFs open PDF
Editor, use the installer instead — the portable build deliberately registers
nothing.

Resolves #1.

Downloads

File	Use
pdf-editor-portable-0.2.0.zip	Portable — extract & run, no install
pdf-editor-setup-0.2.0.exe	Installer — per-user, adds a Start-menu shortcut + registers as a PDF handler

Both builds are unsigned, so on first launch Windows SmartScreen may show
"Windows protected your PC" — click More info → Run anyway.

PDF Editor v0.1.3

First public release — a standalone, open-source PDF viewer + editor for Windows, built on PyMuPDF (engine) and PySide6 (UI).

Install

Download pdf-editor-setup-0.1.3.exe below and run it. It installs per user (to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PDF Editor, no admin / UAC prompt), adds a Start-menu shortcut, and registers PDF Editor as an available PDF handler. Windows-only (x64).

⚠️ The installer is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" on first run — click More info → Run anyway. (One time.)

Set as your default PDF viewer

Windows 10/11 don't let an app make itself the default PDF handler (an anti-hijacking rule), so choose it yourself: Settings → Apps → Default apps, find PDF Editor (or .pdf), and select it. The installer's final screen also has a checkbox that deep-links you there. Once set, double-clicking a PDF opens it in PDF Editor (single-instance: new tab if already open).

What's inside

Tabbed viewer (zoom, thumbnails, printing) · page manipulation (rotate / delete / reorder / insert / merge / split) · in-place text & image editing with snapshot undo/redo · highlights & review comments · Find + Extract Text with OCR fallback (bundled Tesseract) for scanned or outlined-text PDFs. Three fabricated sample PDFs ship in samples/ to try features on.

License & source

Licensed under AGPL-3.0 — PyMuPDF is AGPL, so the combined work is too, and any fork/redistribution inherits it. As required by the AGPL, the complete corresponding source for this binary is this repository. Full third-party attribution is in NOTICE.