Fast PDF page management and markup. OCR on demand. No wait.
A focused Windows desktop PDF editor. Reorder, combine, and delete pages, then drop highlights, rectangles, and lines, all instantly. Open an A1 engineering drawing and work without the Acrobat lag.
Windows 10 / 11 · free · open source
The two things that matter, done instantly.
Acrobat runs OCR and form-field detection every time it opens a file. Rapid PDF skips all of it and does only what field work needs: reorganize pages and add markup.
Page manager
Open, combine, reorder, delete, and add pages from a thumbnail grid. Drag to reorder, double-click to jump into the canvas.
Markup tools
Highlight, rectangle, and line annotations with an Office-style color picker, opacity presets, and line weights.
Object editing
Select, move, and resize with 8-point handles. Ctrl+drag to duplicate, marquee group-select, copy/paste, full undo/redo.
Embedded-image lift
Grab an image baked into the page and move or resize it like any other object, with no white hole left behind.
Faithful saves
Markup is written as PDF-spec annotation objects on the original page. Nothing is re-encoded, resized, or clipped.
Instant, always
Nothing scans on open, so even a large A1 engineering drawing loads and edits without the wait. Need searchable scans? Run Enhance for Search whenever you choose.
Two tabs. Nothing in your way.
Editor
Toolbar on the right, thumbnail strip on the left, the page in the middle. Pick a tool and draw.
Organizer
Every page as a card. Drag to reorder, select to delete, add pages from another PDF.
Download Rapid PDF 1.2.1
A per-user installer, no admin prompt. Adds a Start-menu entry, an optional desktop shortcut, and a clean uninstaller. Prefer no install? Grab the portable zip.
The build is currently unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run. Click More info → Run anyway. Code signing is on the roadmap.