Quit renting your PDF editor
PDFluent runs entirely on your machine. No account, no subscription, nothing uploaded to anyone’s cloud. Free for everyone, including commercial use.
The first time you open PDFluent, your system shows a scary-looking warning. It’s completely safe: we’re still finalising the app signing, and it’ll be sorted in an upcoming version. Here’s how to get past it in about ten seconds.
The macOS build is signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens normally — no security workaround needed.
.dmg and drag PDFluent onto the Applications folder.XFA forms are experimental. The dynamic forms used by some tax and banking PDFs may not open, render, or save correctly yet. Everything else works normally: viewing, editing, annotations, AcroForm filling, merging, splitting and signing.
The PDFluent editor is free for everyone, including commercial use at work. Full terms: pdfluent.com/license.
Developer SDK — a separate product
The same engine ships as a pure-Rust SDK with bindings for every major language — licensed separately from the desktop editor above. Add it to your own project below.
Add to your Cargo.toml: Cargo.toml:
Feature flags
corePDF parsing, text extraction, metadataxfaXFA form processing and flattenocrLocal OCR via Tesseractocr-mistralCloud OCR via Mistral VisionfullAll features enabledExample: cargo add [email protected] --features xfa,ocr
use pdfluent::PdfDocument;
let doc = PdfDocument::open("invoice.pdf")?;
println!("{} pages", doc.page_count());The desktop editor and the developer SDK are licensed separately.
Editor
Free for everyone, including commercial use — no trial period, no feature gates, no account, no licence file to activate.
Editor pricing →Developer SDK
Every channel ships with a 30-day evaluation built in. Production use needs a perpetual licence from €699 (pay once) — a signed key file the SDK validates offline at startup. Details at /docs/licensing.
SDK pricing →