VerusPDF

A free PDF editor. Merge, split, rotate, extract, encrypt, and edit PDFs — no subscription, no paywall.

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Features

• Edit text — click and edit any text span in place
• Merge & split — combine PDFs or split by page count / bookmarks
• Extract pages — keep only what you need (ranges, individual pages, mixed)
• Rotate pages — fix sideways scans, any page or range
• Encrypt & decrypt — add/remove password protection (AES-128, AES-256)
• Extract text — pull all selectable text to clipboard or file
• Bookmarks — add, remove, navigate
• Optimize — compress and deduplicate resources
• Tabs — work with multiple PDFs at once
• 6400% zoom — from 1% to 6400% in 22 steps

Tech Stack

• Backend: Go + pdfcpu
• Frontend: React + pdf.js
• Framework: Wails v2 (native desktop, no Electron)

Building from Source

Prerequisites

• Go 1.21+
• Node.js 20+
• Wails CLI

go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest

Linux only — GTK and WebKit dev libraries:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev pkg-config

Build

# Install frontend dependencies
cd frontend && npm ci && cd ..

# Development (hot reload)
wails dev

# Production build
wails build

The binary is output to build/bin/.

CI Build

The repo includes a GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/build.yml) that builds Windows, macOS (universal binary), and Linux artifacts. Trigger it manually from the Actions tab.

License

MIT