Text and images
Edit paragraphs in place, find and replace across the file, add text boxes, check spelling as you type. Move, resize, rotate, replace or extract pictures.
Desktop PDF editor for Windows · Coming soon
Edit the PDF you already have.
Click a paragraph, retype it, and Folielle reflows the lines in the document's own fonts. No converting to Word and back, no text boxes pasted over the old words.
In development. Price and release date to be announced.
The difference
Change the words where they stand.
Most PDF tools either cover old text with a new box or send the file through a word processor. Folielle edits the page itself.
Paragraphs, not loose letters.
Folielle reads each page as words, lines and paragraphs, even in files that store every letter separately. Click a paragraph and edit it as a whole. The lines wrap again, and the content below moves down if the paragraph grows.
The document's own fonts
Folielle uses the embedded font when it has the letters you type, and a close match when it doesn't.
Tables grow
A longer cell stretches its row, and the rows below move with it.
Small saves
Save after a text edit keeps the original bytes and appends the change, so earlier signatures stay valid.
Checked before it lands
Every save is verified and reopened before it replaces your file. Until you save, your original is untouched.
What it does
One editor for the whole job.
The everyday work of an office PDF editor, built into one desktop app.
Pages and documents
Reorder, rotate, insert, extract and delete pages. Combine files with their bookmarks, split by ranges, size or bookmarks, add headers, footers, watermarks and Bates numbers.
Forms
Fill text fields, check boxes, radio buttons and lists. Build new forms, set tab order, import and export form data, and flatten when you're done.
Sign and verify
Sign with a certificate from your Windows store, a smart card or a .pfx file. See whether each signature in a file is valid, and what changed after it was signed.
Redact and clean
Redaction removes the text, images and drawings underneath, then checks the saved file. Remove hidden information such as metadata, hidden layers, scripts and attachments.
Text recognition
Make scanned pages searchable and selectable. The recognised text goes behind the scan, so the page looks exactly as it did.
Compare
Compare two versions page by page: changed words, moved text and visual differences, with a report you can save.
Convert
Export to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, text or images. Create PDFs from images and Office files, or combine several files into one.
Accessibility and PDF/A
Check tags, language, title, alt text and reading order, and fix them. Check PDF/A and save an archival PDF/A-2b copy.
Forms
Forms that behave.
Type, tick and choose with Tab moving field to field. Dates, numbers, phone numbers and postcodes are formatted the way the form asks, without running the form's scripts. What you type is stored so other PDF readers show it too.
Private by design
Your files stay on your PC.
Folielle is a desktop app. Opening, editing and saving happen on your own computer, and nothing in a PDF gets to run.
Works offline
Every editing tool works without an internet connection.
No network on open
Opening a file never contacts a server, not even to check a signature.
Scripts never run
JavaScript, launch actions and links inside a PDF stay inert.
Recovery built in
If the PC crashes, Folielle offers your unsaved changes back the next time it starts.
How it compares
Three ways to change a PDF.
A plain comparison with the usual alternatives. Individual products differ; these are the common patterns.
| Folielle | Typical online editor | Convert to Word and back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the file is processed | On your PC | On the provider's servers | On your PC |
| Internet needed | No | Yes | No |
| How existing text is changed | In place, the paragraph reflows | Often a new text box over the old words | In a converted copy; layout can shift on the way back |
| The file you keep | Your PDF, with only the edited text rewritten | A downloaded copy | A newly made PDF |
| Scripts inside the PDF | Never run | Depends on the service | Not carried across |
Questions
Good to know
What is Folielle?
A desktop PDF editor for Windows. Its main strength is editing the existing text of a PDF in place, but it also covers forms, signatures, redaction, text recognition, compare, conversion, accessibility and printing.
When can I get it, and what will it cost?
Folielle is in development and isn't available to download or buy yet. Join the beta list and we'll write when it's ready, with the price and the details.
Does it upload my documents?
No. Folielle works on your PC. Opening a file never contacts a server. It goes online only when you ask it to, for example to check a signature's revocation status online or to download an extra text-recognition language.
Will it change my original file?
Not until you press Save. Changes are kept in a recovery copy while you work, and every save is checked before it replaces your file.
Can it edit scanned PDFs?
Text recognition makes scanned pages searchable and lets you select and copy their text. The scan itself is a picture, so its words aren't edited like typed text.
What can't it do yet?
Text is edited a paragraph at a time; text on rotated pages and vertical Japanese text can't be edited yet, and there's no underline in the text editor. A paragraph that grows past the end of its page isn't moved onto the next page; you get a warning instead.
Mac or Linux?
Folielle is for Windows to begin with. Other systems aren't planned for the first version.
Beta
Coming soon. Join the beta list.
Write to us and we'll let you know when Folielle is ready to try.
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