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Get started with PDFluent.

PDFluent is a local desktop app: download it, open a file, and you are working. No account, no setup wizard, nothing to configure.

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Install & first run

Download and install

Grab the build for macOS or Windows. Open the installer and launch PDFluent — there is no sign-up and no account to create.

Open a file

Press ⌘O (Ctrl+O on Windows) to pick a file, or just drag-and-drop a PDF onto the window.

Pick a mode

Use the toolbar to switch between Read, Edit, Convert and Fill & Sign. Everything happens on your machine.

The four modes

PDFluent groups its tools into four honest modes. Pick the one that matches the job.

Read

Open, view and search any PDF. Page navigation, full-text search, and clean rendering of complex documents.

Edit

Annotate with highlights, underlines, strikeout and shapes; redact permanently; and reorganise pages — merge, split, rotate and delete.

Convert

Validate and convert to PDF/A for archiving, OCR scanned pages to make them searchable, and password-protect a file before sharing.

Fill & Sign

Fill AcroForm fields and sign locally. PDFluent also opens and renders legacy XFA forms, and can flatten them to a standard PDF.

⌘K

The ⌘K command palette

Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) anywhere to open the command palette. Start typing the name of any action — redact, merge, sign, convert to PDF/A — and run it without hunting through menus.

Keyboard shortcuts

Open a file	`⌘O`
Command palette	`⌘K`
Search in document	`⌘F`
Save	`⌘S`
Print	`⌘P`
Zoom in / out	`⌘+ / ⌘−`

Shown for macOS. On Windows, use Ctrl in place of ⌘.

Your files stay local

The PDF engine has no path to an HTTP client. Files you open never leave your device: there is no account and no cloud upload, and crash reports are sent only if you turn them on. What you process stays on your machine.