Markup
Highlights, underlines, notes, freehand drawing, text, shapes, and signatures.
SPDFV
Your PDFs.
On your Mac.
Under your control.
Read, mark up, organize, OCR, redact, and automate serious document work in one fast native workspace. No accounts. No uploads. No web wrapper.
v0.1.4 Stable release macOS 14+
Built withSwift + PDFKit
Document processing100% local
Source licenseMIT
App + automationGUI and CLI
One document, four focused workspaces
The right tools arrive when you need them.
SPDFV keeps reading simple and moves deeper controls into clear, task-specific modes.
Read workspace
A calm place to read
Open PDFs from Finder, search text, browse outlines, switch page layouts, and print with the native macOS panel.Private by architecture
The shortest path is the private one.
Your PDF does not need a round trip through someone else’s server. Reading, editing, OCR, redaction, recipes, and queues run locally with Apple frameworks.
- ✓ No document uploads
- ✓ No account required
- ✓ No subscription gate
INPUT
PDF
Your documentnever leaves
THIS MAC PDFKit · Vision
verified output
OUTPUT
✓
Finished PDFA complete instrument
Useful on page one.
Powerful by page five hundred.
Ordinary reading stays quick. Serious PDF work remains close at hand.
Page tools
Rotate, crop, reorder, duplicate, append, extract, and delete with native undo.
Interactive forms
Inspect, fill, create, rename, and validate fields without flattening the document.
On-device OCR
Add a selectable text layer to scans with Apple Vision. The document stays on your Mac.
Permanent redaction
Rasterize marked regions, discard hidden objects, and verify forbidden text is gone.
Command Index
Jump to actions, recent documents, workspaces, and recipes from the keyboard.
Recipe Press
Make the careful process repeatable.
Recipes turn ordered PDF operations and assertions into deterministic JSON workflows. Dry run the complete sequence in memory, then export only after the result passes verification.
01 Assert 02 Transform 03 Verify 04 Export
Same engine, scriptable surface
Meet spdfv in Terminal.
The command-line tool exposes the same PDFKit foundation for shell scripts, scheduled jobs, and reproducible workflows. JSON comes standard.
Read the CLI reference ↗$ spdfv ocr scan.pdf \ --quality accurate \ --output searchable.pdf ✓ 12 pages processed locally $ spdfv redact report.pdf \ --verify-absent 'account number' \ --output sanitized.pdf ✓ forbidden text absent
Durable document work
Set the work in motion. Keep the evidence.
Activity Center tracks OCR, redaction, recipes, batches, watches, and queue jobs with clear outcomes and reports.
What’s new
- Replaces internal AcroForm/XFA field paths with readable form labels while preserving exact PDF keys.
- Keeps the Contents navigator label legible in narrow sidebars.
Open source · Native · Local
A sharper PDF tool is being built in public.
Use it, inspect it, report an edge case, or help shape what comes next.