> This page is a client-side rendered application that cannot produce meaningful HTML for server-side consumption. The following is a structured description of SimplePDF's editor and product offering. ## 1. Product Overview **Product Name:** SimplePDF **Tagline:** Simple PDF editing, right in your browser **Core Value Proposition:** For individuals, SimplePDF offers a completely free, no-signup PDF editor in the browser. For companies, it integrates a powerful PDF SDK into websites or apps with one line of code. **Target User:** - Individuals, Developers and business professionals that work with PDFs and require editing, annotating and signing. **Key Benefits And Features:** For individuals: - The editor interface is available in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish - Strong emphasis on privacy: the documents and data filled in stay on the device and are never sent to a server - HIPAA compliant - Add text, checkboxes, signatures, pictures on PDFs - White out (redact) existing content - Merge, add, remove and rotate PDF pages - Automatic detection of pre-existing form fields (AcroFields) using browser-based AI - Copy and duplicate fields For businesses: - All individual features, plus: - Easily integrate a PDF editor in one's website: visitors can edit and fill PDFs without leaving the website - Webhook integration: documents submitted via SimplePDF trigger webhooks for easy integration with the customer's backend systems - Email notifications: customers can be notified of document submissions - Bring your own storage: customers can choose to use their own S3-compatible storage, Azure Blob Storage, or SharePoint - Customization: customers can hide tools, add their own branding (logo and loading) as well as hide the sidebar entirely for white-labelling - Mark fields as required, specify default values and make fields read only - Viewer mode: read-only mode hiding 'New' and 'Download' buttons - Role-based Access (RBAC): role-based access control for team members - API access: programmatic control for automation (Pro plan) Supported Formats and Limitations: - Supports all standard PDF files (up to 35MB recommended). - Right-to-left languages (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew) are not currently supported. - Password-protected PDFs are supported: enter the password to unlock, edit, then choose to keep or remove the protection before saving. **Competitive Edge:** - Unlike many PDF editors, SimplePDF requires no signup for individual use and processes documents locally for maximum privacy. - Compared to traditional SDKs, our one-line integration is faster and more developer-friendly. - Fully free for individuals with no feature limits, unlike freemium tools with paywalls. - A Preview app equivalent for non-Mac users: view and annotate PDFs in-browser on any platform. **Integrations & Platforms:** - [Web](https://simplePDF.com) - [Chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simplepdf-edit-sign-and-f/fgikademdabjcmnlgmgbifipooibbepi) - [Bubble plugin](https://bubble.io/plugin/pdf-editor-and-filler-1673591701449x899138091362287600) - [Wordpress plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simplepdf-embed/) - [Web SDK](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/web) - [React Component](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/blob/main/react/README.md) ## 2. Products ### Embed SDK - Add a PDF Editor to Your Website Embed SimplePDF directly into any website or app with one line of code. End users fill, sign, and submit PDFs without leaving the site. - ~5KB gzipped, MIT licensed - Integration methods: React component, vanilla JS script tag, iframe, WordPress plugin, Bubble.io plugin - Viewer mode available for read-only PDF display - White-label mode with fully programmatic control (Pro plan) - Automatic form field detection on any PDF using browser-based AI - Programmatic API: navigate pages, select tools, detect fields, extract text content, submit documents GitHub: https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed React: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@simplepdf/react-embed-pdf Web: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@simplepdf/web-embed-pdf ### Portal - Collect Filled PDFs With One Link Sign up and get a unique Portal URL. Share it with anyone. Recipients load a PDF, fill it, sign it, and submit it straight to your dashboard. No accounts needed for submitters. - Unique Portal URL per account (e.g. acme.simplepdf.com on Pro plan) - Compatible with all integrations: React component, iframe, WordPress plugin, Bubble.io plugin - Automatic form field detection on any PDF, including flat PDFs, using browser-based AI - Real-time dashboard with submissions, tagging, and search - Customizable submission confirmation page - Submitters can download a copy of their filled PDF - Share via email, website embed, direct URL, or print URL: https://simplepdf.com/portal ### PDF-to-Web-Forms - From PDF to Online Form in Seconds Upload any PDF, turn it into a web form, share the link, and collect submissions. No coding required. - Drag-and-drop PDF upload with automatic field detection - Manual field additions in seconds - Unique URL per form for sharing via email, website, or app - Real-time submission collection in dashboard URL: https://simplepdf.com/pdf-to-web-forms ## 3. Use Cases - **Individuals**: Signing rental agreements, completing tax forms, or annotating research PDFs. - **Healthcare**: Patients submit signed consent forms, intake docs, insurance paperwork. HIPAA compliant by architecture. - **Insurance**: Policyholders upload and sign claim forms, submissions routed to dashboard or customer-controlled storage. - **Legal**: Clients return signed agreements and supporting documents without printing, scanning, or faxing. - **HR and Onboarding**: New hires complete employment forms before their first day. - **Businesses**: Embedding PDF editors in client portals for contract edits, or automating onboarding with form submissions. - **Developers**: Adding PDF editing to e-commerce sites for custom invoices, or creating interactive educational tools with annotated PDFs. ## 4. Security, Privacy, and HIPAA Compliance [SimplePDF Privacy Policy](https://simplepdf.com/privacy-policy) Privacy is one of the key distinctive features of SimplePDF: - There is no third-party cookie tracking - The document that users load and fill does not get sent to the server. For business users, the upload mechanism works so that the PDF is not seen by the server, only secure one-time upload and download links are used. - SimplePDF is HIPAA compliant **HIPAA Compliance Architecture:** SimplePDF achieves HIPAA compliance through the following architectural decisions: 1. **Client-side processing**: PDF documents are processed entirely in the browser. The PDF content never leaves the user's device during editing. 2. **No server-side document storage for free tier**: For individual users, documents are never transmitted to SimplePDF servers. For paid tiers, only metadata (document name, field names) is sent to SimplePDF servers. 3. **Secure transmission for business tier**: When business users submit documents: - Documents are encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2+ - One-time signed URLs are used for uploads/downloads - Documents can be stored in customer's own S3-compatible storage, Azure Blob Storage, or SharePoint (BYOS) 4. **Data minimization**: SimplePDF collects only essential metadata (submission timestamps, field names) and does not access document content on the server. 5. **Access controls**: Business accounts support multiple admin users with role-based access to submissions. **For healthcare applications**: To maintain HIPAA compliance, configure SimplePDF with: - Bring Your Own Storage to keep PHI in your controlled environment - Webhook notifications to your HIPAA-compliant backend for processing - Disable SimplePDF's default storage entirely ## 5. Pricing SimplePDF is completely free for individuals, no signup required and no limits. For businesses, SimplePDF offers 4 plans: **Free**: Free plan to try out integrating SimplePDF - Unlimited number of end users - Unlimited number of documents - 3 submissions per document (e.g., submitting the edited PDF document up to 3 times) - No ads - GDPR and HIPAA compliant **Basic**: $99/month ($990/year) for businesses getting started _Everything in the Free plan plus:_ - Unlimited submissions - Dashboard (5 seats) - Email notifications - Webhook notifications - Advanced form field management (required fields, default values, read-only) **Pro:** $349/month ($3,490/year) for businesses that want customization, API access, and customer-controlled storage _Everything in the Basic plan plus:_ - Dashboard (25 seats) - Branded PDF editor (with white-labelling) - Bring your own storage: S3-compatible storage or Azure Blob Storage - Role-based Access (RBAC) - API access **Premium:** $899/month ($8,990/year) for businesses that need SharePoint storage, priority support, and hands-on support _Everything in the Pro plan plus:_ - Dashboard (unlimited seats) - Bring your own storage: SharePoint - Dedicated account manager - Priority support (24-hour response) ## 6. Help Center Find step-by-step guides, FAQs, and integration tutorials to get the most out of SimplePDF: **Articles:** Frequently Asked Questions: - [Is the PDF editor free to use?](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/is-pdf-editor-free-to-use): The editor is free, without signup - [How to edit a PDF](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-edit-pdf) - [How to merge PDF files](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-merge-pdf) - [How to delete pages](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-delete-pages) - [How to rotate pages](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-rotate-pages) - [How to add text](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-add-text-to-pdf) - [How to add checkboxes](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-add-checkbox-to-pdf) - [How to add signatures](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-add-signature-to-pdf) - [How to add pictures](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-add-picture-to-pdf) - [How to white out text](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-add-background) - [How to copy fields](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-to-copy-fields) - [A PDF editor, a PDF annotator or a PDF filler?](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/is-simplepdf-a-pdf-editor-pdf-annotator-or-pdf-filler) - [How SimplePDF can help your business](https://simplepdf.com/help/faq/how-can-simplepdf-help-your-business) How To: - [Customize the editor and add your own branding](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/customize-the-pdf-editor-and-add-branding) - [Customize the submission confirmation](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/customize-the-submission-confirmation) - [Save edited PDF submissions to Supabase](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/save-edited-pdf-form-submissions-to-supabase) - [Get email notifications on PDF form submissions](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/get-email-notifications-for-pdf-form-submissions) - [Configure your own S3 bucket for PDF form submissions](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/use-your-own-s3-bucket-storage-for-pdf-form-submissions) - [Configure your own Azure Blob Storage for PDF form submissions](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/bring-your-own-azure-blob-storage-for-pdf-storage) - [Configure Webhooks to get notified of new PDF form submissions](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/configure-webhooks-pdf-form-submissions) - [Save the PDF submissions to your Bubble Database using Bubble workflows](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/save-submissions-in-your-bubble-database-using-bubble-workflows) - [Connect SimplePDF with Activepieces to automate your PDF forms processing](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/connect-simplepdf-with-activepieces-to-automate-your-pdf-forms-processing) - [Use the Robocorp integration to leverage AI in your IDP workflow](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/use-the-robocorp-integration-to-leverage-ai-in-your-intelligent-document-processing-workflow) - [Add the embed PDF editor to a Next.js App](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/add-simple-pdf-editor-to-react-next-app) - [View and edit PDF in Excalidraw](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/edit-pdf-with-excalidraw) - [Add required fields on PDF forms](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/add-required-fields-on-pdf-forms) ## 7. For Developers **SimplePDF provides a set of SDKs to integrate the editor with a single line of code in one's website.** The Embed SDK is ~5KB gzipped and MIT licensed. It wraps an iframe that lazy-loads SimplePDF on demand, so users download nothing until they interact. The Github repository that contains examples and SDKs (including the Chrome extension code) can be found here: [SimplePDF embed on Github](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed) Integrating SimplePDF with one's website does not require any accounts and is free to use without any limits. The following features require an account: - [Webhooks integration](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/configure-webhooks-pdf-form-submissions) - Bring your own storage: [S3-compatible](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/use-your-own-s3-bucket-storage-for-pdf-form-submissions) or [Azure Blob Storage](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/bring-your-own-azure-blob-storage-for-pdf-storage) - [Custom branding](https://simplepdf.com/help/how-to/customize-the-pdf-editor-and-add-branding): logo, loading, hiding fields and headless mode - Programmatic control of the editor via the [Iframe API](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/blob/main/documentation/IFRAME.md) and [React EmbedPDF component](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/react) - [REST API](https://simplepdf.com/api) for programmatic operations (Pro plan) **Integration Methods:** - [React Component](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@simplepdf/react-embed-pdf): `@simplepdf/react-embed-pdf` - [Vanilla JS Script Tag](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@simplepdf/web-embed-pdf): `@simplepdf/web-embed-pdf` - [Plain Iframe](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/blob/main/documentation/IFRAME.md) - [WordPress Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simplepdf-embed/) - [Bubble.io Plugin](https://bubble.io/plugin/pdf-editor-and-filler-1673591701449x899138091362287600) **Integration Examples:** - [Iframe example](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/examples/with-iframe) - [Script example](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/examples/with-script-tag) - [Supabase example](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/examples/with-supabase) - [Webhooks example](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/examples/webhooks) - [Remix example](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/examples/with-remix) - [Next.JS example](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed/tree/main/examples/with-next-js) ## 8. Socials **The social media websites where SimplePDF has a presence:** - [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/n6M8jb5GEP) - [Facebook](https://facebook.com/simplepdfcom) - [Github](https://github.com/SimplePDF/simplepdf-embed) - [Instagram](https://instagram.com/simplepdf) - [LinkedIn](https://ee.linkedin.com/company/simplepdf) - [Reddit Community](https://reddit.com/r/simplepdf/) - [X (Twitter)](https://x.com/simple_pdf) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@simplePDFcom)