storytold/pdfcraft
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat built in pure Rust
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PdfCraft The PDF workbench; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, rebuilt in pure Rust. Read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs in a fast, native app, written in Rust from the ground up. macOS · Windows · Linux · FreeBSD · the web PdfCraft on getartcraft.com · ArtCraft · All Crafting Apps The PdfCraft Showcase, a 13-page specimen PDF, open with the All tools panel and threaded comments. Highlights · Read · Find · Organize · Combine & split · Protect · Forms & layers · Everywhere · Agents · How it's built · Get started · What's next · Crafting Apps PdfCraft is part of ArtCraft. Come say hello, get help and follow development: The ArtCraft name and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team and are not open source. They may be used only unmodified, and only as part of PdfCraft (see docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt). Forks and…
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- Community
- Highlights
- Faithful
- Fearless
- Yours
- Read anything, beautifully
- Find it, select it, copy it
- Navigate long documents
- Organize pages like cards on a table
- Combine and split without losing a thing
- Open protected documents and respect their rules
- Comments, forms, layers and attachments
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What this repository does
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat built in pure Rust
Repository facts
- Owner
- storytold
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 3,332
- Forks
- 1,066
- Open issues + pull requests
- 82
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-30T13:39:37.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-08T11:53:13.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: acrobat, acrobat-full, acrobat-pro, adobe, adobe-acrobat, document-processing, documents, pdf, pdf-generation, pdf-processing, pdf-tools, pdf-viewer, rust
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