Hey Sumo-lings! 👋

I’m Andrew from the pdf.net team. We build a simple online PDF editor that makes everyday document work easier. Happy to share it with you today 🎉

Here’s why: PDFs are everywhere - contracts, invoices, reports, forms. And the moment you need to change one line, sign something, or just understand what the document is saying… everything falls apart.

😤 You try to edit a PDF → it breaks and turns into a 20-minute PDF fight

😤 You need a quick fix → you ask someone to handle it, just to avoid dealing with Adobe

😤 You get a PDF to sign → you waste time googling and trying random tools

pdf.net exists for moments like these. And many more. One review put it better than we could:

“I have used Adobe in the past but I have found pdf.net to be much easier to use. It's like people who actually work with PDFs regularly designed it.”

That’s the whole point. We built pdf.net because we want PDFs to stop being a problem.

We started by solving the everyday stuff you deal with most: editing, signing, merging docs, etc. Now we’re teaching AI to recognize what you’re working with, so it can help you understand and deal with your documents faster.

So, what does your lifetime deal cover today?

• Everyday PDF tools you actually use - in one place

• AI helper for understanding documents, not fighting them

• Access to your documents from any device, whenever you need them

Our bigger mission? Make document work disappear. And we'll get there with your support!

So if anything about working with PDFs still feels painful or annoying - tell us. We’re listening, and it shapes what we build next.

Hey Sumo-lings!

First — thank you! You asked great questions. You pushed us. You reported bugs. You gave tough feedback. We appreciate all of it! It helps us move faster and build the right things.

Here’s where we are after Week 1.

🛠 Bugs we fixed

You flagged two issues this week. We found the glitches and fixed them. Thank you!

🚧 What we’re building right now

1. Request Signature. We’re building a proper “send for signature” flow. Many of you said this is critical. We agree.

2. OCR. We’re adding OCR so you can extract text from scanned PDFs more reliably.

3. New conversion tools:

• PDF to Excel is live

• PDF to CSV and Bank Statement converter are coming next

• PowerPoint to PDF is planned

👀 What’s coming after that

1. API + integrations. This is a big one. We’re building our API, Dropbox and Google Drive integrations. Then Zapier, n8n, Make, and webhooks. We see huge demand for this, and it requires a lot of work. We plan to roll it out step by step over the next few months.

2. AI document filling. We recently launched AI Form Filler. It’s still young and currently supports autofilling a few popular tax forms (if you’ve ever filled one manually, you know the pain!). We’ll train the AI to work with more forms, and we’re also exploring prefilling contracts using existing data.

3. New editor. We’re rebuilding our editor. It’s a major upgrade focused on speed, stability, and a smoother overall experience.

If you shared feedback — thank you.

If you haven’t yet — please do! We read everything.

Thanks for building with us!