PaperKnife
Privacy-first PDF utility (Zero-Server Architecture). Merge, split, compress, and edit PDFs 100% locally on your device. No uploads, no servers, no tracking.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Sign PDF files
- PDF compression
- Combine PDF
- PDF encryption
- No registration required
- Split PDF files
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Built-in viewer
- Drag and Drop
- Convert PDF to Text
- Convert images to PDF
- Reorder pages
- Rearrange PDF
- React
- Watermarking
- Convert PDF to image
- Extract images
Tags
- Android
- zero-server
- F-droid
- Security
- pdf-manipulation
- typescript
- offline-first
- open source
- pdf-tools
- capacitor
PaperKnife News & Activities
Recent activities
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PaperKnife information
Developed by
potatameisterLicensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
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- English
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Office & Productivity, Photos & Graphics, Security & PrivacyGitHub repository
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What is PaperKnife?
Why I built this Most PDF websites ask you to upload your sensitive documents—bank statements, IDs, contracts—to their servers. Even if they promise to delete them, your data still leaves your device and travels across the internet.
I built PaperKnife to solve this. It's a collection of tools that run entirely in your browser or on your phone. Your files never leave your memory, they aren't stored in any database, and no server ever sees them. It works 100% offline.
What it can do Modify: Merge multiple files, split pages, rotate, and rearrange. Optimize: Reduce file size with different quality presets. Secure: Encrypt files with passwords or remove them locally. Convert: Convert between PDF and images (JPG/PNG) or plain text. Sign: Add an electronic signature to your documents safely. Sanitize: Deep clean metadata (like Author or Producer) to keep your files anonymous.