Cross-platform PDF workbench written in Rust: read, search, organize pages, combine, split and secure PDFs, plus a CLI. An open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat with no account or telemetry.
Useful for
- Combine several PDFs into one with bookmarks via printcraft-cli combine
- Split a document every n pages or extract selected pages into a new file
- Open an encrypted PDF, enter the owner password and lift editing restrictions
Before using
- License: Apache-2.0
- Installation and requirements have not been verified; review the README before running
Why now
- Created on GitHub
- 2026-09-30 UTC
- First seen by GitNova
- 2026-10-07 UTC
- Typical day
- +142 stars · median of 7 complete days
- Magnitude
- 8.6 / 10 · growing interest
Already 3.3× a typical complete day; a spike in interest, not a quality score
Maximum over those 7 complete days: +1,385 on 2026-10-07; the current measurement has not exceeded it (UTC)
Measured: October 8, 2026, 06:33 UTC
Measurement details
- Created on GitHub: 2026-09-30; first seen by GitNova: 2026-10-07 (UTC)
- +471 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:01–06:21 UTC
- Usually: +142 stars/day — median of 7 complete days 2026-10-01–2026-10-07 (UTC)
- Already 3.3× a typical complete day; a spike in interest, not a quality score
- Maximum over those 7 complete days: +1,385 on 2026-10-07; the current measurement has not exceeded it (UTC)
- Magnitude 8.6/10