📄 PDFforge — Free, Open-Source PDF Toolkit

Merge, split, compress, convert, edit, sign & more. No subscriptions. No watermarks. No limits. Self-hostable.

PDFforge is a free, open-source PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser (or self-hosted). Powered by PyMuPDF + FastAPI + Next.js.

🌐 Live demo: https://pd-fforge.vercel.app

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✨ Features

• 🔀 Merge / Split PDFs
• 🗜️ Compress without quality loss
• 🔄 Convert PDF ⇄ images / Office / text
• ✏️ Edit text & pages
• ✍️ Sign documents
• 🔎 OCR (extract text from scanned PDFs)
• 🔒 Privacy-first — runs client-side; self-hostable via Docker

🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Frontend	Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Backend	FastAPI, Python, PyMuPDF
AI/OCR	Tesseract / vision models
Deploy	Docker, Vercel

📸 Screenshots

Add screenshots to docs/screenshots/ and reference them here:

• docs/screenshots/merge.png — merge tool UI
• docs/screenshots/compress.png — compression results
• docs/screenshots/ocr.png — OCR output

🚀 Getting Started

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/Navaneeth223/PDFforge.git
cd PDFforge

# With Docker
docker compose up --build

# Or run locally
cd backend && pip install -r requirements.txt && uvicorn main:app --reload
cd frontend && npm install && npm run dev

🤝 Built by

Navaneeth KV — Full Stack / MERN developer, AI-assisted. 🌐 Portfolio: https://portfolio-one-bice-26.vercel.app · 💼 linkedin.com/in/navaneeth-kv-270386214

⭐ Free forever — star the repo if it helps!