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Edit, annotate, merge, split and translate PDFs in your browser, with local OCR and document processing. No signup required. All available features are free during the introductory period. Translation downloads a language model on first use.
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PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Privacy
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Partial Basic browser PDF viewing, merging, and annotation are vibe-codeable with existing libraries, but faithful in-place editing, local OCR, and on-device translation are harder to make reliable.
What it would actually take: A realistic stack is pdf.js for rendering, pdf-lib for manipulation, and WebAssembly OCR such as Tesseract, with a small on-device translation model run through a browser inference runtime. The hard part is editing existing PDFs with accurate text reflow and fonts, which needs deep knowledge of the PDF format. Translation quality and model size also need careful engineering.
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Attention rank: #309 of 962 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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