Free PDF editor & viewer for Windows

The last PDF app most users will ever need — and it’s FREE

Open, edit, sign, OCR, search, organize, and export PDFs without creating an account, paying a subscription, or sending private files to an online service.

Download Free Free beta · Windows · no sign-up
FREE Offline No account No uploads
PDF Daisy desktop app shown on a laptop, with hand-drawn callouts for Work in tabs, Highlight and note, Stamp signatures, and Print with ease, plus a tool row: View, Annotate, Sign, Search, Print, Tabs.

Privacy & local-only editing

Private PDF editing without the cloud

PDF Daisy is built like a trustworthy desktop tool — not a web service pretending to be one.

  • Your PDFs stay on your computer.
  • No account required.
  • No cloud uploads.
  • No telemetry or tracking.
  • No network requests.
  • Your signatures, annotations, and OCR data remain local.
PDF Daisy on a desktop computer surrounded by hand-drawn privacy callouts: No Uploads (crossed-out cloud), No Account, No Tracking (crossed-out eye), Local Only (shield with lock), Local Files folder, and a note reading 'Your data stays here.'

Everyday PDF tools

All the PDF tools you actually use

Open PDFs quickly, work across tabs, add highlights and notes, stamp signatures, and print with a clean desktop workflow — no clutter, no subscription.

'Your PDF Toolbox' — a toolbox holding labeled tabs for View, Annotate, Sign, Search, Print, and Tabs, with hand-drawn callouts: Work in tabs, Highlight and note, Stamp signatures, and Print with ease.

OCR & search

Turn scanned PDFs into searchable documents

Recognize text on one page, a page range, or an entire document — using an OCR engine that runs entirely on your computer.

OCR & Search workflow: a scanned Sales Report page recognized by an OCR stamp, with callouts — OCR one page, a range, or all pages; Search OCR'd scans; Review recognized text; Click words to locate them; Export text to .txt; Scan to OCR to Search; Local and non-destructive.

Organize, export & rebuild

Merge, extract, rotate, and reorder with ease

Delete pages, rearrange documents, rotate pages permanently, extract selected pages, or merge another PDF into the file you’re working on.

Use the thumbnail sidebar to reshape PDFs without sending them through an online tool. You can also export pages as images, pull embedded images from a PDF, or rebuild a PDF from a whole folder of image files.

Page organization map: a stack of page thumbnails surrounded by labeled actions — Merge two PDFs, Rotate, Extract pages, Reorder, Export Images, Pull Embedded Images, and Rebuild from a folder of images.

Secure redaction

Redact sensitive information the right way

Mark sensitive content, then export an image-only PDF so private information is burned out of the shared copy — not just covered by a box.

Redaction workflow on an invoice: 1 Before (private info exposed), 2 Mark with the Redact tool, 3 Warning that redactions are only visual and a black box does not remove hidden content, 4 Export an image-only PDF to permanently remove it, 5 Safe for sharing. The original document stays untouched.
Free Beta · Windows

Try the free beta of PDF Daisy

Get the free beta for Windows and start editing, OCR’ing, signing, organizing, and redacting PDFs — without uploading your documents anywhere.

Download the Free Beta

No account required. No subscription. Your PDFs stay on your computer.

From messy PDFs to organized and under control: a pile of scattered documents becomes a neat, secure file box, with edit, OCR, sign, organize, and redact tools — everything you need to work with PDFs right on your PC.