-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 0
FAQ
Q: Is APDocs Studio free? Yes. APDocs Studio is completely free and open source under the GPL-2.0 license.
Q: Does it work on Mac or Linux? No. APDocs Studio is built specifically for Windows 10 and Windows 11 (64-bit).
Q: Do I need to install anything? You need the .NET 9 Runtime (free, ~50MB). The app itself requires no installation — just run the EXE.
Q: Does it support OCR?
Yes. OCR is powered by Tesseract and supports 40+ languages. Press Ctrl+Alt+O to run OCR on any page.
Q: Can I edit existing PDFs?
Yes. Use Ctrl+O to import any PDF. You can edit individual pages, reorder, merge, and re-export.
Q: How does Paint integration work?
Right-click any page → Edit with Paint. Make your edits in Paint, press Ctrl+S, and APDocs Studio reloads the image automatically. See the Paint Integration Guide.
Q: Can I send PDFs by email?
Yes. APDocs Studio supports Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and any MAPI-compatible email client. Press Ctrl+E to email.
Q: The app won't start — what do I do?
Make sure .NET 9 Runtime is installed. If it still won't start, check the logs in %AppData%\NAPS2\.
Q: OCR is not working OCR language data needs to be downloaded on first use. Make sure you have an internet connection when running OCR for the first time.
Q: Paint doesn't open when I click "Edit with Paint" Make sure Microsoft Paint is installed. On Windows 11, Paint may need to be reinstalled from the Microsoft Store if it was removed.
Q: The app is slow on large PDFs Large PDFs with many pages can be memory-intensive. Try processing in smaller batches or increasing available RAM.
Q: Can I contribute to the project? Yes! Fork the repo, make your changes on a branch, and open a pull request. See Building from Source to get started.
Q: How do I report a bug? Open an issue at github.com/atharvpawar16/APDocsStudio/issues.