The PDF engine behind The Yellow App.

Read, edit, compress, redact, repair and convert PDFs inside your own app, on your users’ devices. Written in Rust, always cutting edge, improving every week. No cloud, no per-page fees.

// with PagewerkEngine.xcframework in your target

// once, at launch: checked offline, no phone-home
let status = setLicense(key: "EL1.…")

// everything runs on the device
let small  = try compress(input: pdf, level: .strong)
let merged = try mergeFiles(files: [contract, annex])
let report = try privacyReport(input: pdf)
let locked = try protectFile(input: merged, password: pw)

Why build on Pagewerk Engine

No servers to run or pay forEvery operation runs on your users’ devices. Your cloud bill for PDF work is zero.Why: the engine is a library, not a service.
Nothing to explain to your privacy teamDocuments never leave the device, so there is no data processing agreement and no upload to secure.Why: the engine contains no network code at all.
One integration for every platformShip the same features with the same results on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web.Why: one Rust core with bindings for each platform.
Costs you can planLicensed per app or domain, not per page or document.Why: nothing is metered, because nothing runs on our side.
It keeps getting betterPagewerk itself runs on this engine, so every fix and every new format reaches you with the next release.Why: we build it for our own product first.
Safe with hostile filesDamaged and malicious PDFs are repaired or refused, not executed.Why: memory-safe Rust and continuous fuzz testing.

What it does

AreaCapabilitiesStatus
Pagesmerge, split, rotate, reorder, delete, extract, insert, crop, page numbers, watermarks, bookmarksPRODUCTION
Sizecompression in three levels, render-checked, never returns a larger filePRODUCTION
SecurityAES-256 encryption with permissions, unlock, true redaction, privacy report and cleaningPRODUCTION
Robustnessrepair of damaged files, PDF 2.0 including Brotli streamsPRODUCTION
Forms & signingfill forms with their date and number formats, flatten, place signatures and imagesPRODUCTION
Textsearchable text layer from your OCR results, text and images to PDFPRODUCTION
PDF → OfficePDF to Word (.docx)PRODUCTION
PDF to Excel (.xlsx, CSV), PDF to PowerPoint (.pptx)BETA
Office → PDFWord, Excel and PowerPoint to PDF, including password-protected filesCOMING
Workflowschain any of the above and run it on many filesPRODUCTION

Production: Pagewerk’s own apps use it today. Beta: works, still being measured. Coming: not in the engine yet.

Run the Production tools in your browser · API reference

Where it runs

AppleiOS, iPadOS, macOSSwift · XCFramework
Windowsx64, Arm64C# · .NET
AndroidArm64, x86_64Kotlin · AAR · coming
Linux & serversx64, Arm64Rust crate · later
Weball modern browsersWebAssembly

Getting started for each platform: Docs.

Licensing

  1. Try it. The full engine, free for evaluation. Files it writes carry a visible “evaluation” mark.
  2. Get a key. A licence key bound to your app’s bundle ID or your web domain, signed by us.
  3. Ship. The engine checks the key offline at launch. The mark disappears. No server, no tracking, no surprise shutdowns.
Licences on requestfor your app, your platforms and your domains
  • tell us what you are building
  • we reply with an offer
Contact us

How licensing works

Proven in our own app

Pagewerk for iPhone, iPad and Mac runs on exactly this engine. What works for The Yellow App works for yours.

Talk to us

Tell us what you are building, which platforms you need and roughly how many users you expect.