PDF Craft

Free, offline desktop PDF editor for Windows
Merge, split, annotate, convert, OCR — no subscription, no cloud upload.

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Description

PDF Craft is an open-source PDF workstation built with Python and CustomTkinter. Edit pages in a visual editor, run batch tools from a side panel, convert formats, OCR scanned documents, and automate tasks from the CLI — all on your machine.

Your files never leave your computer. No account, no analytics, no internet required for core PDF work.

Features

Area	Capabilities
Editor	Thumbnails, fit-to-page, focus mode, annotations (highlight, rectangle, text), rotate/delete page, compress
PDF Tools	Split, merge, extract/delete pages, rotate all, encrypt/decrypt
Convert	PDF ↔ images, PDF ↔ Word (DOCX); Word → PDF on Windows
OCR	Searchable PDF from scans (Tesseract)
Plugins	Extend with Python scripts in ~/.pdf-craft/plugins/
CLI	Scriptable commands for automation and CI
UX (v1.2)	Status bar, toasts, keyboard shortcuts, recent files, light/dark themes

Screenshots

Demo

Installation

Windows (recommended)

1. Download PDFCraft.exe from the latest release.
2. Verify the SHA256 checksum in SHA256.txt.
3. Run the executable. No installer required.

From source

git clone https://github.com/Satan2049/pdf-craft.git
cd pdf-craft
py -3.12 -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate          # Windows
# source .venv/bin/activate     # macOS / Linux
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Optional system tools

Feature	Requirement
OCR	Tesseract + pip install pytesseract
PDF → images	Poppler on PATH
Word → PDF	Windows + Microsoft Word

Details: docs/PLATFORMS.md

Development

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install ruff pytest
python main.py
python main.py cli --help
python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
ruff check .

Project layout:

pdf-craft/
├── main.py              # GUI entry
├── cli.py               # CLI entry
├── core/                # PDF logic (no UI imports)
├── gui/                 # CustomTkinter UI
├── tests/
├── assets/              # Logo, icon, screenshots
├── scripts/             # make_icon, generate-sha256
└── docs/

See CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md.

Build

.\.venv\Scripts\activate
.\build.bat

Output: dist\PDFCraft.exe

Generate release checksums:

.\scripts\generate-sha256.ps1 -Version 1.2.0

Full guide: docs/BUILD.md · Release workflow: docs/RELEASE.md

Tech stack

Layer	Technology
Language	Python 3.10+
UI	CustomTkinter
PDF engine	PyMuPDF (fitz)
PDF utilities	pypdf
Images	Pillow
OCR	pytesseract + Tesseract
Conversions	pdf2image, pdf2docx, docx2pdf
Packaging	PyInstaller
Lint / test	Ruff, unittest

Trust & releases

• Checksums: SHA256.txt · docs/TRUST.md
• v1.2.0 PDFCraft.exe SHA256: E6F490453EE1B92093F4F15C0C4CA682F8CFB63C96B39EA85469F4DE3B019E9F
• VirusTotal: report (unsigned PyInstaller builds may trigger heuristic false positives — verify hash first)

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Third-party notices: NOTICE.

PyMuPDF is AGPL-3.0. Review licensing if you distribute commercial or closed-source builds.