Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
PdfCraft: a PDF workbench in your browser
A free, open-source browser editor for reading, organizing, annotating, and saving PDF documents.
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- People reading, organizing, or reviewing complex PDFs
- Worth noticing
- The homepage says its engine exposes a JSON control protocol and an MCP server for headless document work.
Field notes
PdfCraft is presented as an early alpha, with reading modes, page operations, threaded review comments, form filling, and layer controls grouped into a five-step browser workflow. The page specifically names right-to-left text, vertical CJK, colour emoji, transparency, and bookmarks among the cases it aims to preserve. It also reports zero crashes across the 983-file pdf.js test corpus; that is a project-reported test result, not an independently verified benchmark.
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