PDF Guard — Private PDF Editor

Edit, sign and redact PDFs — and read the text off scans. 100% on your device; files never leave your computer.

PDF Guard is a complete PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Open a PDF and edit it in seconds — no files are ever uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and it works even offline. 🔒 100% PRIVATE Every page is processed locally on your device. Your documents never leave your computer. It's the private alternative to online PDF tools that upload your files. 🔎 READ THE TEXT OFF A SCAN — ON YOUR DEVICE Most "OCR" tools send your scan to a server. This one doesn't. Text recognition runs inside your browser, on the same machine the file is on, so a scanned contract or an ID photo stays yours. It reads Hebrew, English and Spanish, and a separate engine handles pages photographed with a phone. Every page is marked read, partly read or not read, and words it isn't sure about are underlined — so you know what to check rather than trusting it blindly. From there you can search the scan, redact by search, copy the text, turn the lines into editable text, or export the file with an invisible searchable layer. Arabic and handwriting are not supported yet, and the tool says so. Recognizing one page is free; all the pages, and saving the layer into the file, are Pro. ✍️ EVERY TOOL, UNLOCKED There's no "basic" tier of tools here — free and Pro use the exact same editor. • Add and edit text (right‑to‑left supported), including text hidden inside embedded graphic containers • Highlight, draw, add shapes, arrows and notes • Sign: draw, type in a script font, or upload — in navy, blue, black or red, placed once or in the same spot on every page • Insert images and edit them in place — crop, rotate, adjust color and transparency • Opens every common image format, including multi‑page TIFF scans and iPhone HEIC photos — all decoded on your device • Rubber stamps (Approved, Confidential, Draft…) — resize from any corner, rotate, and place the same stamp again in one click • Merge, split, reorder, rotate and delete pages • Page numbering, headers, watermarks & Bates numbering • Links: add, auto‑detect and validate • True redaction that removes the content underneath — not just a black box • Auto‑detect finds national IDs, phone numbers, credit cards, emails and IP addresses, so you don't have to hunt for what to redact • Scan Cleanup — straighten a crooked page, lift the shadow and whiten the paper • Clean hidden metadata • Convert images ↔ PDF • Find & replace across the whole document — one undo step for "replace all" • Save your entire work session as a portable project file and continue on any other computer • Convert Word (.docx) to PDF — entirely on your device, the only converter that never uploads, and the result is searchable and copyable • Batch‑process many files at once (Pro) • Compare two versions of a document (Pro) 💚 FREE: 3 DOCUMENTS A DAY, EVERY TOOL INCLUDED Every tool above — including redaction and auto‑detect — is free to use, up to 3 exported documents a day. Editing and viewing are unlimited, and there's no page limit. The daily count is kept on your own device; we can't see it and we don't ask for an account or email to use it. ⭐ PRO: NO DAILY LIMIT Pro removes the 3‑a‑day cap and adds power features: text recognition on every page of a scan and saved into the exported file, one‑click "remove all findings" to clear every detected item at once, certificate‑based digital signatures (.p12/PAdES, recognized by Acrobat, with trusted timestamps), batch processing, version comparison, and use on up to 3 devices. From $2.42/month (billed $29/year), or $4.90/month. Every future feature is included. Backed by a 30‑day money‑back guarantee, no questions asked. 🏅 LIFETIME: OWN IT ONCE Prefer no subscription? The first 100 founders get PDF Guard Pro for $79, one time — no account, no renewal, ever. Price rises to $129 once those seats are gone. ♿ FOR EVERYONE Multiple languages and a full built‑in accessibility menu (text size, contrast, dark mode, readable font, and more). NEW IN 2.1 • Text recognition (OCR) for scanned pages and phone photos — on your device, in Hebrew, English and Spanish, with honest per‑page marks and uncertain words underlined • Scan Cleanup — straighten, de‑shadow and whiten a scanned page • Word → PDF now comes out searchable and copyable • Text stored inside embedded graphic containers is finally visible and editable • Choose the ink for a drawn signature — navy, blue, black or red • Stamps behave like images: proportional corners, edge stretch, a rotation handle, and a + to place the same one again • A text box you never typed into no longer stays behind as an empty box • Suggest a feature from inside the editor — it reaches us, and we answer 0 uploads. Ever. No sign‑up required. Install and start editing in one click.