Your PDFs. Your machine.
No cloud required.
Subscription PDF editors charge $200+/year and upload your documents to their servers. Vexifa PDF Suite is a free Windows download with every feature unlocked — local AI, redaction integrity checking, PII scanning, one-click table extraction, digital signatures. Healthcare and Legal compliance modes built in.
No account, no credit card. An optional $19/year PayPal subscription supports development.
Six things competitors don't do — or charge extra for
Each one solves a specific problem in the standard PDF workflow. Three of them no major competitor offers at all.
Local AI — Chat With Any PDF
Ask questions about any document in plain English. The AI reads your actual content — tables, columns, clauses — not just raw characters. Runs entirely via Ollama. Your document never leaves your machine.
Document Brief on Open
Before you've scrolled past page one, Vexifa has already read your document and surfaced an AI-generated brief: parties, key dates, deadlines, and a plain-English summary. No competitor does this automatically.
Redaction Integrity Check
Court filings and government documents are leaked every year because a black rectangle was drawn over text that's still selectable in the PDF stream. Vexifa detects this automatically on every open and flags it before the document leaves your hands.
PII Scanner — Share Safely
Instantly scan for SSNs, credit cards, phone numbers, email addresses, IBANs, and more — before you hit send. Runs entirely on-device. No API call, no upload, no exposure. One-click redact any finding.
One-Click Table → Excel/CSV
Right-click any table in a PDF. Choose Export to Excel, Copy as CSV, or Export as JSON. The table structure is understood — headers, rows, multi-page tables. No manual retyping. Ever again.
Smart Clipboard — Copy That Pastes Cleanly
Copying text from a PDF has been broken for 30 years. Hyphen artifacts, column-order errors, spurious line breaks — Vexifa normalizes all of it before it ever reaches your clipboard. You may not notice. That's the point.
Rust-Native. Not Electron.
Not a Browser Tab.
Vexifa PDF Suite is a native Windows application built on Tauri 2.0 and Rust, using PDFium — the same rendering engine that powers Google Chrome. It renders at native resolution, uses no background services, and installs in under 30MB.
The market-leading PDF editor installs 1.5GB and runs six background processes. Vexifa installs in seconds and does more.
Three situations where the alternative isn't an option
Honest version: if you read one PDF a month, the built-in Windows viewer is fine. Vexifa is built for these three situations.
You're paying $200+/year for software you barely use
$200+/year for a 1.5GB install that uploads your documents to a vendor cloud for any AI feature. Vexifa does the work locally for free — every feature, no paywall. If you want to support continued development, an optional $19/year PayPal subscription is there.
Your team validates redactions by hand before every filing
Manually checking a redacted document — selecting underneath every black box to confirm no text leaked — takes 2–3 hours per filing. Vexifa runs the integrity check automatically on every document open. The thing that took half a day is done before you finish reading page one.
A "redacted" document went out with selectable text underneath
It has happened to law firms, government agencies, and Fortune 500 legal teams — the Manafort filing in 2019, the DOJ Epstein release in 2025. A breach notification typically costs $150K–$500K. Vexifa catches the failure before the document leaves your machine — every time you open it.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
PDFium-based rendering at native resolution. Zoom, dark mode, virtual scroll for documents of any size.
Highlight, underline, strikeout, sticky note. Written back to the PDF stream — compatible with Acrobat and every reader.
Reorder, rotate, split, merge, extract pages. Everything you do in Acrobat, with a drag-and-drop thumbnail sidebar.
Make scanned documents searchable. Runs locally via Tesseract. Unlimited pages, no per-page cost.
Redaction integrity, broken links, unembedded fonts, low-resolution images — checked automatically on every open.
SSNs, credit cards, phone numbers, emails, IBANs — detected instantly before any document leaves your hands.
Chat with any PDF. Automatic brief on open. Semantic search. PII NER layer. All local via Ollama.
Content removed from the PDF stream — not covered. Metadata scrubbed. Cannot be undone by any reader.
Real PKI-backed signatures using your OS certificate store. RFC 3161 timestamps. Verifiable by any conforming reader.
Right-click any table. Export as .xlsx, CSV, or JSON. Multi-page tables handled. No manual retyping.
AES-128 encryption. Granular permissions: print, copy, modify, annotate. Open any password-protected file.
Apply watermarks, OCR, redaction, export, or signatures to hundreds of files at once. Full progress reporting.
Export to Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Import Office files as PDF. Convert web pages. Uses LibreOffice or Chrome/Edge — no cloud.
Create AcroForm fields from scratch — text, checkbox, dropdown, signature, date. Drag-and-drop placement, tab-order editor, import/export form data.
Search and redact SSNs, IBANs, credit cards, and custom regex patterns across the entire document at once. Preview matches before applying.
Strip embedded JavaScript, hidden text, revision history, XMP author metadata, and external resource links before sharing.
XFDF annotation exchange compatible with major PDF editors. Real-time shared review sessions over LAN — no cloud required.
Send documents for legally binding signature via DocuSign or Dropbox Sign. Track status in-app. Download the completed PDF when all parties sign.
Translate the full text of a document to any language while preserving layout. Runs via local Ollama or cloud model of your choice.
Specialized AI modes for contracts (parties, obligations, risk), invoices (arithmetic validation), and academic papers. All local-first.
Add headers and footers with page number tokens. Diagonal watermarks with opacity control. Bates numbering with prefix and padding.
In-document text replacement across any page range. Case-sensitive and whole-word options. Reports pages affected and replacement count.
Append-only JSONL log of every document operation — open, save, redact, sign, export. View in-app or export to CSV. Required for HIPAA and regulated workflows.
Compliance modes for regulated work
Healthcare and Legal compliance aren't separate editions you buy — they're modes you select in Settings. Same app, same install, switch in one click.
Healthcare Mode
Switch in Settings → Mode. Forces encrypted audit log, mandatory session timeout, disabled recent-files list, and blocks all external cloud AI providers — only local Ollama AI is permitted. Local-first architecture means PHI never reaches a Vexifa server. HIPAA-friendly by design.
Legal Mode
Switch in Settings → Mode. Surfaces privilege-aware AI guardrails, Bates numbering, PAdES-B-LT digital signatures for eIDAS-qualified signing, and e-discovery-friendly metadata handling. Built for attorneys who need cryptographic proof without cloud dependency.
Enterprise Policy File
IT departments can deploy C:\ProgramData\Vexifa\policy.json via SCCM, Intune, or GPO to lock the app into a specific mode and disable specific features (cloud AI, cloud storage, telemetry, browser extension, LAN review, e-signature). Policy templates for healthcare, legal, and air-gapped environments are on GitHub.
What subscription PDF editors actually cost vs. Vexifa
The sticker price isn't the whole story. The market leader's $239/year doesn't include the e-signature plan, AI Assistant, or the extra tooling teams routinely add on top.
Comparison prices reflect the market-leading PDF editor's individual subscription plus typical e-signature and AI add-ons. See full feature comparison →
Free download. Every feature.
Annotation, OCR, redaction integrity, PII scanning, page management, local AI, true redaction, digital signatures, table export, audit logging — all included in the free Windows download. No tiers, no paywall, no degraded mode. If Vexifa earns its keep, an optional $19/year PayPal subscription supports continued development.