Features
Text can be modified, forms filled, documents signed, pages reordered, files merged, split, compressed and password-protected, and scanned pages made searchable. All processing takes place in the browser on the user's device.
Key features
- In-place text editing
- A paragraph is selected and its text retyped. The closest matching typeface is applied: Arimo, Tinos, Caladea and Cousine share their character widths with Arial, Times New Roman, Cambria and Courier New.
- Annotations
- Highlight, underline, strikethrough, sticky note, text box, freehand drawing, rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, and stamps such as APPROVED, DRAFT and CONFIDENTIAL. Replies and a resolved state are supported; comments are written as standard PDF annotations.
- Form filling and signatures
- Text, checkbox, radio, list and signature fields can be filled; text, ✓, ✗, dots and dates can be placed anywhere. Signatures can be drawn with a mouse, pen or finger, typed, or inserted as an image; up to six are retained in the current browser only.
- Page management
- Pages can be reordered by dragging, rotated, deleted and duplicated; blank pages or pages from another PDF can be inserted; pages can be extracted to a new file.
- Protection and redaction
- Open password and print, copy and modification permissions (AES-256, qpdf). Redaction is permanent: the page is converted into an image so that the underlying content is removed. Title, author and XMP metadata can be removed.
- Text recognition (OCR)
- An invisible text layer is added to scanned pages, making them searchable and their text copyable. Turkish, English or both; optionally limited to pages without text.
- Adding content
- Text, images (including from the clipboard), whiteout, watermarks, and headers/footers containing page number, page count, date and file name.
- Merging and splitting
- Several PDFs are combined in a chosen order. Files can be split every N pages, by ranges, or into one file per page; the results are saved to a folder or a ZIP archive.
- Compression
- Light, Balanced and Strong levels: images are re-encoded and the file structure is recompressed. If the result is not smaller, the original is retained.
- Conversion
- Images to PDF (A4, Letter or image size, with margins). Pages can be exported as PNG or JPEG at 72–600 dpi, and text as .txt.
- Password-protected PDFs
- These open after the password is entered, and the same open password is retained on saving.
- Reading
- Thumbnails, bookmarks, an attachments panel (for saving embedded files), zoom, and search that disregards Turkish letter case and diacritics. Multiple documents in tabs; undo, redo and printing.
Operating system integration
Integrations provided by the desktop application. Desktop versions are listed on the Download page as they become available.
macOS
- PDF files and images are listed in the Open With menu; the default PDF viewer is not changed
- Quick Actions: combining, creating a PDF from images and reducing file size
- A PDF opened from Finder is saved to the same file
Windows
- Paginel in the Open with menu
- Context menu commands: combining, creating a PDF from images and reducing file size
- Combining via the Send to menu
Linux
- AppImage and .deb packages
- Combine, create PDF and reduce size actions for GNOME Files, Dolphin, Nemo and Thunar
- Open with for PDF and image types
Devices and browsers
- Designed for desktop and tablet browsers. The application opens in phone browsers, but a phone-specific layout is not yet available.
- In Chrome and Edge, files are saved back to their original location, folders can be browsed and recent files are retained. In Safari and Firefox, files are opened with the file picker and saved files are provided as downloads.
- In the desktop application, PDF files open from Finder or File Explorer via "Open with" and are saved to the original file.
Keyboard shortcuts
⌘ and ⌥ are used on macOS; Ctrl and Alt on Windows and Linux.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/⌘ O | Open |
| Ctrl/⌘ S | Save |
| Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ S | Save as |
| Ctrl/⌘ ⌥ N | Blank PDF |
| Ctrl/⌘ P | |
| Ctrl/⌘ F | Find |
| Ctrl/⌘ Z / ⇧ Z | Undo / Redo |
| Ctrl/⌘ 1 / 2 | Fit page / width |
| V · H · T | Select · Hand · Text |
| U · N · P | Highlight · Note · Draw |
| R · X | Rectangle · Redact |
| Arrows (⇧ for 10 pt) | Nudge selected object |
On touch screens, buttons are enlarged to at least 44 px. The signature pad accepts mouse, pen and finger input. Pinch-to-zoom is not yet supported; the zoom buttons are used instead.
Get Paginel
Try it in the browser without installation; for continued use, purchase the version for macOS, Windows or Linux.