Imprint / Legal notice
Operator
CrabPDF is operated by Robert Turturica, a private individual based in Rome, Italy.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Personal website
Company / VAT
CrabPDF is not currently operated through a company. No VAT number is available.
Commercial and open source status
CrabPDF is a personal project.
CrabPDF is free to use.
CrabPDF is proprietary software and is not currently open source.
There are no premium plans, paid features, subscriptions, ads, or user accounts at this time.
Terms of use
You may use CrabPDF to open, edit, annotate, redact, organize, compress, inspect, and export PDF documents in your browser.
You are responsible for the documents you open, edit, export, download, share, or rely on.
You must not use CrabPDF for unlawful activity, abuse, attempts to disrupt the service, or actions that violate third-party rights.
You must verify important documents yourself before using, submitting, publishing, or relying on the edited result.
No warranty
CrabPDF is provided free of charge and as-is. PDF files can contain unusual fonts, broken encodings, scanned images, forms, signatures, annotations, encryption, or complex layouts. CrabPDF may not render, edit, redact, OCR, compress, protect, or export every document correctly.
To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, the operator is not responsible for data loss, incorrect edits, failed exports, failed redactions, document corruption, business loss, legal consequences, financial consequences, medical consequences, or other damages resulting from use of CrabPDF.
This page is a practical legal notice for the project and is not legal advice.
Privacy summary
CrabPDF is designed as a local-first browser editor. Documents are opened and processed in your browser. CrabPDF does not require accounts or a cloud document library. For more detail, see the privacy-first no-upload page.
Open source credits
CrabPDF uses and/or bundles open source software and browser tooling, including:
PDF.js for PDF rendering, viewing, text layers, annotations, and viewer UI foundations.
pdf-lib for PDF creation, modification, serialization, and font handling workflows.
qpdf-run and qpdf.js for browser-side PDF processing utilities.
ghostscript-pdf-processor / Ghostscript-related tooling for PDF compression workflows.
Fontkit / pdf-lib fontkit integration for custom font support where available.
Vite, Workbox, and Vite PWA for building, bundling, caching, and offline app behavior.
Third-party projects remain subject to their own licenses and copyright notices.