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Paperwing

A free, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat for Windows and macOS. Built on BentoPDF

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About Paperwing

Paperwing is a free desktop PDF editor for Windows and macOS with an Acrobat-style workspace and keyboard shortcuts, built on the open-source BentoPDF and its 117 tools for editing text and images, filling and signing, converting, OCR, redaction, compression and password protection. Files are processed on your computer with no account; the app checks GitHub for updates at launch (can be turned off in Preferences), and Office-to-PDF conversion and non-English OCR download their engines on first use. Builds are not code-signed, so Windows and macOS warn you the first time you open it, and there's no Linux package yet. It's a new, one-developer project, first released in October 2026.

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