PrivatePDF

PrivatePDF is a free web tool that lets you make quick PDF edits from within your web browser, without uploading anything anywhere.

I created this tool to make it quick and easy to sign PDF contracts, without having to deal with installing programs and without worrying that my PDFs will get uploaded to a third party.

It supports the bare minimum for my most common usecases. It is not intended to be a full-featured PDF editor.

Check it out by either picking a PDF of your own, or with a preloaded sample PDF.

This tool has mainly been tested on desktop Chrome on Windows 11.

Features

View PDFs

Fill PDF forms

Insert text

Insert images

Rotate PDFs

Future features

• Create your own signature within the tool
• Ability to insert symbols
• Ability to rearrange and insert pages
• Support for non-latin characters

Technologies used

• Written in TypeScript
• Bundled with Webpack
• PDFs rendered using PDF.js
• PDFs edited using pdf-lib
• Developed on Visual Studio Code
• Code formatted with Prettier

Building instructions

1. Clone the repo
2. Run npm install to install all dependencies
3. Run npm run build to compile the source code into a JS bundle file
4. To use the tool from your browser, start a server from the root project directory, for example by running python -m http.server which makes the tool accessible on port 8000.
5. In your browser go to localhost:8000

License

PrivatePDF is MIT licensed.