PDF Guard — Private PDF Editor

The complete PDF editor, built for privacy. Sign, redact, read scans, edit a page like a photo — 100% on-device, no account.

PDF Guard is the complete PDF editor, built for privacy. It runs entirely on your device — open a PDF and edit it in seconds, 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 send your files to their servers. 🔎 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 now reads eight languages — English, Hebrew, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese and Hindi (Arabic is not supported yet) — with a dedicated engine for 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. Handwriting is not supported yet. Recognizing one page is free; all the pages, automatic recognition, and saving the layer into the file are Pro. ✂️ EDIT A PAGE LIKE A PHOTO Inside Organize, "Edit page" crops a page and cleans up a scan — trim empty margins, switch to a clean scan, grayscale or black & white, or adjust brightness and contrast. The preview is exactly what gets saved. Free. 📂 A REAL HOME FOR YOUR WORK Every document you open stays in this browser. Ctrl+S saves your edits with a plain "Saved in this browser." Reopen it later and pick up right where you left off. Delete one and it's actually gone — after you confirm. ✍️ ONE EDITOR FOR EVERYONE There's no cut-down "basic" editor here — free and Pro use the exact same one. The few Pro-only items are marked (Pro). • Click any line of text already in the PDF and change it where it stands (including Hebrew, right to left), including text hidden inside embedded graphic containers • Draw your signature or import a picture of it, and place it on one page or every page • Digital signature with your own .p12/.pfx certificate and an optional trusted timestamp (Pro) • Text boxes, highlights, pen, shapes, arrows and notes — all movable and resizable • Stamps — Approved, Confidential, Draft, or one of your own — resize from any corner, rotate, place the same one again in a click • A watermark, straight, diagonal or tiled • Find a word anywhere in the document and replace every match, or only the ones you pick • Links: add, auto-detect addresses in the text, and check they work • 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 (in Chrome, on devices that can decode them) — all processed on your device • Merge, split, extract, reorder, rotate and delete pages • Page numbers, headers, footers, and Bates numbering • True redaction that removes the content underneath — not just a black box • Find personal data — ID and card numbers, phones, emails and IP addresses — so you don't have to hunt for what to redact • Strip hidden metadata: author, app name, edit dates, scripts and attachments • Lock the PDF you export with an open password, encrypted in your browser • Check a signed PDF: has it changed since signing, and what does the certificate say? • A basic accessibility check: document language, title, and a short report • Real compression for the images inside a PDF — Balanced or Strong — text and fonts untouched • Convert Word (.docx) to PDF entirely on your device — unlike with most online converters, your file stays on your computer, and the result is searchable and copyable • Save your entire work session as a portable project file and continue on any other computer • Batch-process many files at once (Pro) • Compare two versions of a document (Pro) 💚 FREE: 3 DOCUMENTS A DAY, EVERY EVERYDAY TOOL Each tool above that isn't marked (Pro) — including redaction and personal-data detection, one finding at a time — is free to use, up to 3 exported documents a day. Editing and viewing don't count toward it, 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: text recognition on every page of a scan, recognized automatically and saved into the exported file; one-click bulk actions — redact every match or apply every detected finding at once; certificate-based digital signatures (.p12/PAdES, recognized by Acrobat, with a trusted timestamp); 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 Nine languages, right-to-left support, and a full built-in accessibility menu (text size, contrast, dark mode, readable font, and more). 🆕 NEW IN VERSION 3 • Text recognition now reads 8 languages (added French, German, Russian, Chinese, Hindi) and is sharper on Chinese, numbers in Hebrew text, long screenshots and phone photos • Text boxes in Hebrew and Arabic export exactly as you typed them, italic text slants letter by letter, and watermarks in Russian and Chinese export as real letters instead of empty boxes • Word to PDF: closer to Word’s fonts, line breaks and tabs, a more precise search layer, and embedded content inside a .docx is no longer shown • Real compression for the images inside a PDF on export — Balanced or Strong • "Edit page" — crop a page and clean up a scan (free, inside Organize) • A real home for your work: reopen, Ctrl+S, and a delete that actually deletes • Personal-data detection and Links are now named tools of their own • One "All tools" menu and page; drag an image file straight onto an open page • Safer export: redacted or removed content no longer lingers in the file, a file with a restrictions-only password no longer comes out blank, and internal links between pages survive • Fillable forms stay fillable after export • A round of stability fixes, including a crash some users hit 0 uploads. 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