PdfCraft at a glance
Checked 15 Oct 2026PdfCraft is an Acrobat-style PDF workbench from the ArtCraft team, written in Rust and started on 30 September 2026 (v0.8.0, 14 Oct 2026). Its README says alpha, about 55% of the way to replacing Acrobat for everyday work; editing existing text, OCR beyond Latin script and Office import/export are thin or missing, and fuzzing still finds crashes. Installers for Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD; MIT or Apache-2.0. Not affiliated with Adobe. Commits show heavy AI-agent assistance.
RepoQuarry. “PdfCraft.” Checked 15 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/pdfcraftHow much of Adobe Creative Cloud does it replace?
1 of 7 jobs. Alpha; weak at editing existing text, OCR and Office conversion.
For photo editing (Photoshop), vector design (Illustrator), raw photo editing and library (Lightroom), video editing (Premiere Pro), motion graphics and compositing (After Effects), page layout (InDesign), see other Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser through WebAssembly, from the same Rust codebase.github.com · pdfcraft#runs-everywhere-stays-yours ↗ 1d ago
PdfCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.github.com · pdfcraft#license-and-credits ↗ 1d ago
Forks and modified versions must remove them.github.com · pdfcraft#license-and-credits ↗ 1d ago
Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser through WebAssembly, from the same Rust codebase.github.com · pdfcraft#runs-everywhere-stays-yours ↗ 1d ago
Installers and executables are code-signed.github.com · pdfcraft#downloads ↗ 1d ago