alphaPDF: Professional Local PDF Viewer/Editor

View and edit PDFs locally in your Chrome browser. Get 23 essential tools free, plus advanced tools with Pro.

Open PDFs from your device or directly from the web and process them locally in Chrome, without sending their contents to an online processing service. Advanced features such as PDF to Word, OCR and permanent redaction are available with alphaPDF Pro. 🛠️ Included free: PDF viewing, Snapshot image capture + 23 PDF tools - View PDFs with thumbnails, bookmarks and text search - Use Snapshot to select an area of a page and copy it as an image or save it as a PNG, rendered directly from the PDF for sharp results - Annotate with highlights, comments, drawings, shapes and signatures - Merge, split, reorder, rotate, crop, add, replace and remove pages - Export pages as JPEG or PNG, or create PDFs from JPEG and PNG images - Create blank PDFs and add images to pages - Extract supported embedded images and file attachments - Compress PDFs, repair damaged files where possible, and flatten interactive forms - Add page numbers and watermarks - Remove document properties and XMP metadata ⭐ alphaPDF Pro: Snapshot text copying + 14 additional PDF tools - Copy text from a selected Snapshot area, using the PDF’s text layer where available or local OCR for scanned content - Convert PDFs to editable Word (.docx) documents, including headings, tables and text formatting. Results vary depending on the document - Make scanned pages searchable and selectable with local OCR - Export plain text, using local OCR for pages without a text layer - Permanently redact selected page regions by rebuilding affected pages with the marked content removed - Sanitise PDFs by removing selected hidden data and active content - Protect PDFs with AES-256 password encryption - Create detached cryptographic seals to verify PDF integrity - Fill existing PDF forms and create interactive form fields - Add Bates numbering, headers and footers - Edit bookmarks and links - Compare page and text changes between PDFs - Run batch workflows across multiple PDFs 🔒 Local processing and privacy - PDF contents are processed on your device and are not uploaded to our servers - Snapshot image capture and text recognition run on your device - No advertising and no sale of user data - Optional website and local-file access are requested only when you enable features that need them - English OCR is included. Additional supported language models are downloaded only when requested and then stored locally - Internet access may be used for requested web PDF imports, optional language downloads, purchases, licence activation and validation, recovery, and installation management alphaPDF Pro is available as a one-time purchase of US$59, including applicable transaction taxes. There is no subscription or recurring charge. Any available promotion and the final total are shown at checkout. [Learn more](https://maskia.co/alphapdf/) · [Privacy](https://maskia.co/alphapdf/privacy/) · [Terms](https://maskia.co/alphapdf/terms/) · [Support](https://maskia.co/alphapdf/support/)