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SafePDF - Your PDFs never leave your machine

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SafePDF is a desktop PDF toolkit with 27 tools that run 100% locally on your machine. Merge, compress, convert, sign, encrypt, OCR, redact — no file is ever uploaded to a server. It's the iLovePDF/Smallpdf experience, but your documents never leave your computer. Critical for confidential work: legal contracts, medical records, financial statements, ID documents. Free forever: the Merge tool is free, no account, no email. Pro unlocks the other 26 tools. macOS, Windows, Linux. Works offline.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 — maker of SafePDF here. I built it out of frustration. Every time I needed to merge or compress a PDF, the "free" online tools wanted me to upload confidential contracts and bank statements to servers I didn't control. For anyone handling sensitive documents — and anyone subject to GDPR — that's a non-starter. SafePDF is the fix: a desktop app where everything runs on your machine. Merge, compress, convert, sign, encrypt, OCR, redact — your files literally never leave your computer. No account, no upload, works offline. Under the hood it's Electron + React, with real engines doing the heavy lifting: Ghostscript (compression & PDF/A), qpdf (AES-256 encryption), Tesseract (OCR), and LibreOffice headless (Office → PDF conversion). Same quality as the cloud tools — zero servers. Free forever for the merge tool. €12/mo unlocks the 26 other tools (OCR, Office conversion, PDF/A, redaction, forms, signatures…). Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. I'd love your honest feedback — especially on which Pro tool you'd want next. What's missing for you? 🙏

honestly the local-only angle is exactly what i need for client contracts, but one thing would make it way better for me: a batch queue where i can drop 30 pdfs at once and run merge, compress, and ocr across all of them in one go instead of doing them one by one.

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 Hi, thanks a lot for your reply & upvote
Really good idea to add a drop zone

Really glad something like this exists, been wanting a local-only PDF tool forever. One thing that would make it even better for me: add a way to create and save reusable redaction profiles so I don't have to manually mark the same fields across dozens of similar contracts every time.

honestly the offline-first angle is what got me, since I deal with client contracts all day and uploading to random sites always felt sketchy. merge worked smoothly and it was nice not seeing an upload spinner for once.

Finally a PDF tool that doesn't sneak my tax docs onto someone's cloud. Merged a stack of statements offline in seconds, clean and fast.

A folder watching feature would be a game changer for my workflow. If I could drop PDFs into a watched folder and have SafePDF auto-apply rules like "compress anything over 2MB" or "OCR all scanned files," that would save a ton of repetitive clicking.