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AEShot PDF

Everything you need from a PDF app, without the weight: edit the text itself, sign with certificates, combine pages and make scans searchable.

Download for MacmacOS 14 or later

SHA-256 070ba058504ef8ede30ebec24258c6a9f4d36e70948d1fd7d05fa3efe0d1d9a3How to check

Download for WindowsWindows 10 (version 2004) or later

SHA-256 852bb17c88c062a6a77b4b9184a696929442f70458fb26cc99e63480c3645c54How to check

The installer isn’t code-signed yet, so Microsoft Edge and Windows may warn before you keep or open it. What to do

Download for Linux64-bit · KDE Plasma 6 recommended
Choose the package for your Linux
  • Debian, Ubuntu (.deb)Download

    SHA-256 e7a28ee867dbdf8b603fd73d7aab6a6270ac4e62af9f6b41f04d4096d312cbafHow to check

    Install it with: sudo apt install ./aeshot-pdf_1.0.2-1_amd64.deb

  • Fedora (.rpm)Download

    SHA-256 52340c11ac9592b7ae8be404db9f66e1065bbe7481e68c726c15dbea555d593bHow to check

    Install it with: sudo dnf install ./aeshot-pdf-1.0.2-1.x86_64.rpm

  • openSUSE (.rpm)Download

    SHA-256 979a972c58c0a0a9811cdf374527cda0ee14de268b14756602566de746551d22How to check

    Install it with: sudo zypper install ./aeshot-pdf-1.0.2-1.opensuse.x86_64.rpm

  • Arch Linux (.pkg.tar.zst)Download

    SHA-256 4a827c42ee88e736d318767d83112616fa6777287a1be7d419e24946ef876436How to check

    Install it with: sudo pacman -U aeshot-pdf-1.0.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

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Free · No account · No ads

What it does

The PDF work you do every day, in an app that opens in an instant.

Edit the text itself

Click a paragraph and type. It keeps its font, size, color and alignment and rewraps, and every change is checked before it is kept.

Sign with certificates

Digital signatures that Acrobat and other PDF apps check, with a trusted timestamp. Use a certificate stored on your computer, a smart card or a file, or make your own.

Sign by hand

Draw, type or photograph your signature once, then place it with a click. It is kept securely on your computer.

Combine and organize

Combine PDFs and pictures, and reorder, rotate, insert, extract or delete pages in the sidebar.

Make scans searchable

Recognize Text reads scanned pages on your computer and adds the words invisibly, so you can search, select and copy them.

Mark up and fill in

Highlight, draw, add text and notes, and fill in forms, with standard annotations that every PDF app shows.

Fast and light

Opens large documents in an instant and runs nothing in the background once it is closed.

In ten languages

English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, Simplified and Traditional.

A closer look

AEShot PDF changing a paragraph of a report: the new text keeps its font and layout.

Change the text itself

Click a paragraph and type. The new words keep their font, and the paragraph rewraps around them.

Signing a service agreement with a certificate: the signature shows the name, department and date, and a green bar confirms it is valid

Signed, and checked

A certificate signature shows your name, department and the date. Signatures you receive are checked: who signed, and whether anything changed since.

Dragging a page to the top of the sidebar, then dropping in another PDF, whose pages join the document

Pages in the sidebar

Drag pages to reorder them, drop in PDFs and pictures, and rotate pages with a shortcut.

Recognizing the text of a scanned invoice, then searching it for the total

Scans you can search

Recognize Text reads a scanned page on your computer. Then you can search it, and select and copy its words.

Free. Nothing to buy.

AEShot PDF is free, like every AEShot app: nothing to buy and no ads. Every feature is yours from the first launch.

Private by design

Your documents stay on your computer. No account, no ads, no tracking of what you do, nothing uploaded: the app sends only an anonymous count of installations. Text recognition runs on your computer too.

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