A modern, feature-rich PDF editor built with WPF and .NET 8, featuring a MaterialDesign UI with OCR, visual page splicing, and click-to-place text editing.
- PDF Viewing — WebView2-powered inline document preview
- Click-to-Place Text Editing — Click anywhere on the PDF preview to add formatted text with live positioning
- Form Filling — Detect and fill interactive PDF form fields
- Visual Page Splicing — Drag-and-drop style page assembly from multiple PDF files with thumbnail previews
- OCR / Make Searchable — Tesseract-powered OCR converts scanned/image PDFs into searchable text
- Export to Images — Render every page as high-DPI PNG, JPEG, BMP, or TIFF
- Page Manipulation — Combine, split, extract ranges, and remove individual pages
- Copy All Text — One-click full-text extraction to clipboard
- Smart Extract — Paragraph-level text block extraction with individual editing
- XFA/Dynamic Form Safety — Auto-detects Adobe-only PDFs and offers to open them externally
- Crash Logging — Automatic error reports saved to
Documents\PDFSmart\crash.log
- Download
PDFSmart_Setup_v1.0.0.exefrom the Releases page - Run the installer — it will place the app in
Program Files\PDFSmart - A Desktop shortcut is created automatically
Prerequisites:
- .NET 8.0 SDK
- Visual Studio 2022 or VS Code
# Clone the repository
git clone <repository-url>
cd PDFSmart
# Build the project
dotnet build PDFSmart\PDFSmart.csproj --configuration Release
# Run the application
dotnet run --project PDFSmart\PDFSmart.csprojTo create a distributable build:
.\publish.ps1publish.batdotnet publish PDFSmart\PDFSmart.csproj ^
--configuration Release ^
--runtime win-x64 ^
--self-contained true ^
--output publishThe application and all dependencies will be in the publish\ folder.
Requires Inno Setup 6:
& "$env:LocalAppData\Programs\Inno Setup 6\iscc.exe" installer.issOutput: Output\PDFSmart_Setup_v1.0.0.exe
- Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- .NET 8.0 Runtime (included in self-contained builds)
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | .NET 8.0 WPF |
| PDF Manipulation | PdfSharp 6.2.4 |
| PDF Rendering | PdfiumViewer + pdfium native |
| OCR Engine | Tesseract 5.2.0 |
| UI Theme | MaterialDesignThemes 5.3.0 |
| Viewer | Microsoft WebView2 |
| MVVM | CommunityToolkit.Mvvm 8.4.0 |
| Installer | Inno Setup 6 |
PDFSmart/
├── PDFSmart/
│ ├── Assets/ # Icons and images
│ ├── Converters/ # WPF value converters
│ ├── Models/ # Data models (TextAnnotation, FormField, etc.)
│ ├── Services/ # PDF service layer (IPdfService, PdfSharpService)
│ ├── ViewModels/ # MVVM view models
│ ├── Views/ # XAML dialogs (TextEditing, FormFilling, VisualSplicing)
│ ├── tessdata/ # Tesseract OCR language data
│ ├── App.xaml # Theme + resources + crash handler
│ └── MainWindow.xaml # Main application window
├── SmartPdfEditor.Tests/ # Unit and smoke tests
├── installer.iss # Inno Setup installer script
├── publish.bat # Publish script (Batch)
├── publish.ps1 # Publish script (PowerShell)
└── SmartPdfEditor.sln # Solution file
- Open PDF — Click the folder icon or use File → Open
- Add Text — Click "Add Text", then click directly on the PDF preview to position your text
- Fill Forms — Open a PDF with form fields, click "Fill Form", enter values and save
- Visual Splicing — Click "Visual Splicing" to load multiple PDFs and assemble pages visually
- Make Searchable — Open a scanned PDF, click "Make Searchable" to run OCR
- Export Images — Extract all pages as high-resolution image files
- Combine / Split / Extract / Remove — Standard page manipulation tools
- PDF viewing, text editing with click-to-place, form filling
- Visual page splicing with drag-and-drop thumbnails
- OCR (Make Searchable) with Tesseract integration
- Export pages to images (PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF)
- Page operations (combine, split, extract, remove)
- XFA/Dynamic form detection and safety handling
- Professional installer via Inno Setup
- Automatic crash logging
MIT License — See LICENSE for details.
For issues or questions, please open an issue on GitHub.
PDFSmart — Making PDF editing simple and modern.