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PDFBook

A fast, private desktop app to read, create, extract, and organize your whole PDF library.

PDFBook is a desktop application for people who keep a lot of PDFs — books, papers, manuals, manga, scanned documents — and want one calm place to read and manage them. It runs entirely on your computer: your files never leave your machine.

Distraction-free reader

Page-flip and vertical-scroll modes, right-to-left support for manga, in-document text search, bookmarks, and reading-position memory that picks up where you left off.

Organized library

Tags, ratings, favorites, reading status, and watched folders that keep your catalog in sync as you add files.

Create & extract

Build PDFs from images or pages, capture pages from another app on screen, and pull pages back out when you need them.

Private by design

No account required to read. Everything is processed locally; your library never leaves your device.

  1. Download the installer for your platform.
  2. Add a folder of PDFs as a watched path.
  3. Open a book and start reading.

New here? Start with the getting-started guide.