Paperwork

PDF workstation 001

Import PDF

Library 0 documents

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Drop PDFs here Files are copied into your local library.

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Ranked from your most frequent local actions during the last 90 days.

They will reorder as you work.

PDF

Bring in a real document

Read, search, annotate, sign, OCR, reorganize, and export without changing the original.

Choose PDFs

Document

Page of 1

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Search results

Search inside the current PDF.

Annotations

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Source

Page note

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Note Color

Visual overlay

Place overlay text

This is not redaction. A white-backed box visually covers the area, but underlying PDF content may remain searchable or extractable. Never use it to hide sensitive information.

Text Color

PDF sticky note

Read note

Local signature

Draw your signature

The drawing stays on this machine and is stored only with the annotation.

Non-destructive editing

Organize pages

Select pages for an operation. Drag page rows to create a reordered copy. The source PDF is never overwritten.

Rotation

New PDF name

Library operation

Merge PDFs

Drag documents into the order they should appear.

New PDF name

Recovery

Recently removed

Restore a document with its annotations and reading history, or permanently delete its local file.

Full library

Backups

Backups include PDFs, annotations, and reading history. Copy the folder shown to another drive for protection from disk failure.

Local-first software

About & privacy

Paperwork stores PDFs, annotations, reading history, and backups on this computer. It does not upload documents to a cloud service.

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Network: Loopback-only local server; no document cloud sync.
Redaction: Overlay text is visual only. Covered PDF content may remain searchable or extractable.
Core licenses: pdf-lib and fontkit: MIT; PDF.js: Apache 2.0; Noto Sans SC: SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Optional OCR: Poppler, Tesseract, and qpdf are separately installed tools under their respective licenses.