PDFluent

Free plan

What the maker publishes

Annotation tools

Yes source

Company

The site identifies Innovation Trigger BV and describes PDFluent as made in the Netherlands. source

Form creation

No source

Forms

AcroForm PDFs are fully supported, while XFA form support is experimental and may not open, render, or save correctly. source

Free plan

Yes source

Integration formats

The SDK is published through crates.io, PyPI, npm, NuGet, and Maven Central. source

Limits

The editor does not store documents, capture from scanners or cameras, provide a searchable library across documents, support collaboration, or create PDFs from Word files. source

Maker

PDFluent says it is built by Jasper de Winter, a Rust engineer based in the Netherlands. source

OCR

Yes source

Offline use

The editor runs fully offline and requires no internet connection, account, or background service. source

PDF conversion

Yes source

PDF tools

The editor supports viewing, editing, annotating, merging, splitting, compressing, OCR, PDF/A conversion, redaction, password protection, watermarking, forms, and signing. source

Platforms

The desktop app supports macOS 11 or later on Intel and Apple Silicon, plus Windows 10 or 11 64-bit. source

Privacy

The editor runs locally without an account, cloud storage, or telemetry unless crash reports are switched on. source

Product

PDFluent is a native desktop PDF editor that runs locally on macOS and Windows. source

SDK

A separately licensed PDF SDK is available with bindings for Rust, Python, Node.js, Java, C, and WebAssembly. source

Security design

The maker says the PDF engine is written in memory-safe Rust and does not execute document JavaScript or automatic PDF actions. source

Support

For licensing questions, the maker says to email [email protected] and states it responds within one business day. source

Supported platforms

macOS,Windows source

Text editing

Yes source

Checked against the maker's pages on 11 Oct 2026.