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Every document you open in AegisPDF stays on your own computer. Redaction, OCR, editing, fill & sign and everyday page work all happen there. Your files are never sent to a server, and we never receive them.
For solo lawyers, accountants, HR and medical records staff, that takes a familiar worry off the table. There is no cloud copy of a client or patient file to protect, no outside document processor to disclose, and nothing to lose if a vendor is breached. It is not a policy promise. There is simply no upload step.
AegisPDF runs in your web browser, with nothing to install and no account needed to start. Desktop only (Windows, macOS, Linux); no mobile app.
The free tier is unlimited: merge, split, extract, compress, watermark and manual redaction that removes the text, not just covers it. Pro adds automatic Find & Redact for emails, phones, cards and SSNs, OCR for scanned pages, confidence tiers, protect, fill forms, edit, and fill & sign. Team adds seat management for a firm.
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AegisPDF's answer:
AegisPDF never uploads your documents. Redaction, OCR, editing and fill & sign all happen on your own computer, inside the browser you already have. That is not a privacy policy, it is how the product is built. There is no upload step to opt out of.
For a practice handling privileged files, that removes a whole category of risk: no cloud copy of a client document to protect, no outside document processor to disclose, and nothing of yours to lose if a vendor is breached. It also means unmetered use. Processing a document costs us nothing, so there are no page caps, no per-file fees and no upload limits.
AegisPDF's answer:
Against the web PDF tools, your file simply never leaves your machine, so the confidentiality question never comes up.
Against the local desktop editors, there are three differences. There is nothing to install, which matters a great deal when your work laptop is managed by IT and you cannot add software to it. AegisPDF is built around redaction rather than treating it as one tool in a large suite: it removes the underlying content on export instead of drawing a black box over it, and it can find emails, phone numbers, cards and SSNs for you. And it has a Team tier with central seat management, which the free local tools do not.
Against Adobe Acrobat Pro specifically, Pro is $14 per user per month against roughly $23, which is nearly 40% less.
AegisPDF's answer:
Solo practitioners and small practices, roughly one to fifty people: lawyers, paralegals, accountants, bookkeepers, HR staff and medical records staff. The common thread is that they handle confidential client and patient files themselves, without an IT department, and they are not allowed to upload those files to a cloud tool.
A secondary audience is privacy-conscious individuals who simply do not want their documents sitting on someone else's server.
AegisPDF's answer:
AegisPDF started from a narrow observation: the people with the most sensitive documents have the worst PDF options. The convenient web tools ask you to upload the file first, which is exactly what a lawyer, an accountant or an HR manager cannot do with a privileged document. The alternative was a heavyweight desktop suite that a managed work laptop often will not let you install in the first place.
So we built a PDF workstation that runs in the browser but processes everything on your own machine, so the convenience of a web tool does not cost you custody of the file. Redaction came first and stayed at the centre of it: not a black box drawn over the text, but the underlying content actually removed on export. Everything since has been built around that.
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This certainly could be useful for me personally, but it would need more functionality. I think the _full_ project could be very useful though. However I would ask, how is this different from e.g. https://standardnotes.com/ and other note systems available ? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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