PdfCraft
Clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat in pure Rust: read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs in a fast native app. No account, no telemetry. ~2.2k stars.
Why I saved this#
Part of the ArtCraft suite of pure-Rust Adobe clones — the Acrobat equivalent, and the one with the most obvious everyday utility.
Notes#
- The PDF workbench; clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat (~2.2k stars, Oct 2026).
- Read, organize, combine, split and secure PDFs; README shows threaded comments and an all-tools panel.
- “No account, no telemetry” per the README badges.
- Rust; native on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, plus a web build.
- Dual-licensed MIT / Apache-2.0.
- Renamed from
printcraft— the old URL 301-redirects here (Oct 2026). - Siblings: PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft, VectorCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft.