The same editor as the web app, one click from wherever the file already is. It asks the browser for no permissions at all, and your document is never uploaded. Free, with no account and no watermark.
Open a PDF from a page or from disk and edit it without leaving the tab. It is the same editor as the web app and the desktop app, built from one codebase, so a document behaves the same way in all three.
Viewing, annotating, editing text and images, redacting, filling and signing forms, reorganising pages, merging, splitting and comparing are all there, and all free. There are pages on redacting, splitting, organising pages, annotating and password protection if you want the detail of any one of them.
Most extensions ask to read and change data on the sites you visit. This one requests nothing. Its manifest declares no permissions and no host permissions at all — not tabs, not storage, not activeTab.
Files are opened through the browser's own file picker, which you drive. The extension never gets standing access to your filesystem, your tabs or any website, and with no host permissions it cannot reach a server even if something in it tried.
You do not have to take that on trust. The source is public, and the extension's manifest is two lines.
The extension is free, with no account to create, no page limit, no export cap and nothing of ours stamped on your document.
The one paid tool in the extension is watermarking. It is a Supporter tool: 1,000 credits ($5) once, which unlocks watermarking and OCR together. It is not a subscription and not a charge per use, and the unlock is remembered by your account.
OCR — making a scan searchable — is the only tool missing from the extension. In the web app the recogniser is downloaded once, and that one-time download is exactly the kind of remote code a Manifest V3 extension may not fetch.
For a scan, use the web app or the desktop app instead. How OCR works here has the details.
Chrome and Edge, each from the browser's own store. Firefox and Safari are not supported as an extension.
In Firefox or Safari, the web app runs in a tab with nothing to install. Saving over the original file, rather than downloading a copy, needs Chrome or Edge.
From the browser's own store. No account, no permissions to grant.
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None. Its manifest declares no permissions and no host permissions at all — not tabs, not storage, not activeTab. Files are opened through the browser's own file picker, so the extension never gets standing access to your filesystem, your tabs or any website.
Yes. Viewing, annotating, editing text and images, redacting, filling and signing forms, reorganising pages, merging, splitting and comparing are free, with no account and no page limit. Watermarking is a Supporter tool: 1,000 credits ($5) once, together with OCR.
No. The extension is for Chrome and Edge, each from the browser's own store. In Firefox or Safari the web app at openpdfedit.com/app/ runs in a tab with nothing to install.
No. OCR is the only tool the extension does not have, because the recogniser is a one-time download and a Manifest V3 extension may not fetch remote code. OCR is in the web app and the desktop app.