Browser-local PDF editor that competes with Adobe Acrobat Pro on the editing surface. Files never leave your device — every byte of the edit, the OCR, the redaction runs locally.
Lives at /tools/pdf-tools/pdf-editor. Replaces nothing — the standalone PDF tools (compress, merge, split, sign-pdf, redact-pdf, annotate-pdf, ocr-pdf, etc.) all stay shipped as fast-paths for single-action use.
v1 shipped 2026-05-04. Eight modes wired end-to-end (Select / Edit / Add / Sign / Redact / Annotate / Fill Forms / OCR), continuous-scroll virtualised canvas, Photoshop-style history-timeline panel, find / search.
v1.1 shipped 2026-05-05. Watermark, Bates, Header & Footer, Crop, Bookmarks, and Metadata as first-class doc-scope tools with live overlay preview. Excel + Markdown export. True byte-level redaction. PII auto-detect. Adobe-style Move tool, 8× zoom, edge-accessible pan, drag-select substring edit, right-pane accordion redesign.
v1.2 shipped 2026-05-13. True in-place text editing via pdfium-wasm — edits rewrite the content stream instead of stamping cover-and-overlay rectangles. Original font / color / matrix preserved. Click-to-edit with caret-at-click position (Acrobat model). Adjacent text shifts to make room on width change. Subset-font misses fall back to PDF base-14, then NotoSans (bold + italic variants) for everything outside Helvetica / Times / Courier. CJK / Cyrillic / smart-quotes-from-Word now save without throwing. Toast warns when reflow would clip past the page bottom.
Two known v1.2 gaps confirmed during real-world testing, deferred to v1.3:
- Paragraph reflow doesn’t trigger correctly on most real PDFs. The wrap + push-down code path is shipped and works on synthetic fixtures, but real-world line detection or the trigger heuristic needs a rebuild against a real-PDF corpus.
- Font picker in the edit-text toolbar only exposes 3 families (Helvetica / Times / Courier). The pdfium engine ships with full NotoSans variants embedded; the toolbar UI needs to surface them and let the user choose any embedded family.
v1.3 in planning. Paragraph-reflow rebuild, font picker UI expansion, digital signatures, faithful Word export, measure tool, mid-word break on overflow, cross-page overflow handling.