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Editor Launch — What Shipped

Published onBy Sheo
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I shipped the Docuconverter PDF editor this week.

This post is a short note on what is live, and the six problems I tried to solve. If you landed here from Reddit, IndieHackers, or Product Hunt — thanks for clicking through.

What it does

You open the editor in the browser. You drop a PDF. You can reorder pages, rotate, delete, merge, fill forms, and sign. You click Download and the file comes back.

That is the whole product. No installer. No app. No login until the download step.

The six problems

These are the six things I wanted to fix. Every one of them is something I hit personally before I started building.

1. Signing without an account upfront

Most free PDF signers ask for an email before you can draw a signature. The email lands in a marketing list. You did not sign up for it.

I wanted the flow to be: upload, edit, sign, preview — all without giving us anything. The Google sign-in happens once, at the download step, so we can keep the file in your history if you want it. If you do not want history, close the tab. The file is gone from our servers within an hour either way.

2. No watermark on the output

A watermark on a free-tier signed contract reads as unprofessional. A watermark on a GST invoice can be a real problem at audit time.

We do not stamp files. The PDF you download looks the same as the one you uploaded, with your edits added and nothing else.

3. Eleven languages, with Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil treated as first-class

Most Western PDF tools either skip Indian languages or do them badly. Some have no Indian-language interface at all. Others have machine translations that read strangely to a native reader.

The editor is in English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, and Russian. Indian languages are not afterthoughts here. They were part of the original design, not a translation pass at the end.

4. Usable on mobile

I will not say "perfect on mobile" because it is not. But it is usable. You can drop a PDF on a phone, draw a signature with your finger, place it on the page, and download. For a one-page invoice this works fine.

For a 50-page contract, you will still want a laptop. That is an honest limit.

5. Files deleted within an hour

The backend enforces this. There is no setting. There is no opt-in. Every uploaded file and every edited copy is deleted from our servers within one hour after you finish downloading.

We never sell, share, or train models on your files. We are a small Indian team. We use no third-party AI inference on user uploads. MongoDB only stores conversion metadata — the tool you used, the filename, the size, the timestamp. Never the file content.

6. Free, with no card

There is no card on file. There is no daily task limit. There is no upgrade prompt because there is no upgrade. The editor is free today.

We may run display ads on tool pages later in 2026 to keep the lights on. We may sell a small "remove ads" plan after that. The core editing tools stay free. If that changes, I will write about it with 60 days of notice before the change.

What it does not do yet

I want to be honest about the gaps.

  • OCR. If you have a scanned PDF that needs text editing, convert it to Word first and edit there.
  • Bulk signing. One PDF at a time, today.
  • Multi-party signing flows. For Vendor A then Vendor B then you, use DocuSign or Zoho Sign.
  • Heavy compression presets. Our compress is simple. SmallPDF has more presets.

OCR is the most-requested gap. It is on the roadmap. It is not shipped.

The technical bits, briefly

For the dev / IH readers — the editor is browser-based, built on PDF.js for rendering and a Go backend for the save pipeline. We use no third-party signing service. The signature is rasterised into the PDF as an image, embedded in the file itself. No DocuSign envelope, no external metadata, no third-party server in the loop.

The 11 locale support is real Next.js i18n with hreflang on every page. Not a JavaScript dropdown that swaps strings client-side. Each locale is a separate URL, separately indexable by Google.

A note on the founder voice

I am Sheo. Solo dev in India. I built this because the free tier on every big PDF tool felt broken — a card, an email, a daily limit, or a watermark. I do not have a co-founder. I do not have venture funding. I have a small Hostinger server and a strong opinion about how a free tool should behave.

If you try it, tell me where it breaks. Email below or DM on LinkedIn.

Sheo support@docuconverter.in

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