README.md

---
title: PDF EDITER
emoji: 📝
colorFrom: indigo
colorTo: blue
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.24.0
python_version: '3.12'
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: mit
---

# 📝 PDF EDITER — Advanced PDF Editor with OCR

Upload a PDF → OCR scanned pages → edit text → manage pages → merge/split → watermark → compress → protect → download. Built with **Gradio + PyMuPDF + Tesseract OCR**.

## ✨ Features

| Tab | What you can do |
| --- | --- |
| 📥 Upload & Preview | Upload one or more PDFs (auto-merged), browse pages, zoom, click preview to set coordinates |
| 🔍 OCR | Tesseract OCR in **19 languages** (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese), makes scanned PDFs **searchable**, extracts `.txt` |
| ✏️ Edit Text | Find & **Replace** across the document (with match highlighting), **add text** anywhere in 9 fonts incl. Devanagari / Tamil / Bengali / Arabic / Gurmukhi, click-to-position |
| 🖼️ Page Tools | Delete, rotate, duplicate, move up/down, **reorder**, **split**, **extract** pages with thumbnails |
| 🧩 Merge & Advanced | **Merge** PDFs, **watermark** (angle/opacity), **compress**, **encrypt (AES-256)** / unlock, **fill PDF forms** |
| ⤴️ Top bar | **Undo / Redo** (25 steps), reset session, download the current PDF |

## 🚀 Run locally

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-hin   # + more language packs
python app.py
```

## ⏱️ Performance note

OCR runs on the Space's CPU — for best results start with 1–2 pages at 200 DPI to check quality, then process the rest.