Your data never leaves your computer

RaioPDF does its work on your own machine. Your documents aren't uploaded, and there's nothing to sign into.

What runs on your machine

Everything you do to a document — opening, editing, organizing, redacting, Bates numbering, scrubbing metadata, even OCR — happens on your computer. The steps that need a heavier engine run a small helper alongside the app that only your own computer can reach. Nothing is sent to an outside server.

OCR is on your machine too

Making a scanned PDF searchable normally means uploading it somewhere. RaioPDF does it locally, with a built-in text-recognition toolchain. The pages never leave your computer.

No tracking

RaioPDF collects no analytics and sends no usage data. After an unclean exit, it may ask once whether you want to report the crash. Nothing is sent automatically: you can review a pre-filled GitHub issue before submitting it, or save a report file and send it yourself. The prompt can be turned off in Settings, and diagnostics files are saved to your computer unless you choose to share them.

When something goes wrong, an error message may also offer Help diagnose this. That copies a written description of the problem to your clipboard so you can paste it into whichever AI assistant you already use. RaioPDF has no AI of its own and doesn't send the text anywhere — putting it on the clipboard is all it does, and whether it goes any further is up to you. Before it lands on the clipboard, RaioPDF removes file paths — including network-share paths — along with file names, email addresses, and number patterns that look like Social Security, phone, or account numbers. That removal recognises patterns rather than reading meaning, so a client or matter name written as ordinary words can still slip through — read the text before you paste it anywhere. See Report a problem.

"Open Raio to AI" is off unless you turn it on

RaioPDF has no AI of its own. There is an optional setting that lets your own AI assistant use RaioPDF's tools. It's off by default, and even when you turn it on, it talks only to the AI program you connected — over a direct on-device channel, not the internet.

The one thing that reaches out

Your documents never leave your machine. By default, the only reason RaioPDF connects to the internet at all is to check whether a newer version of the app has been released, from its official releases — and that's only ever about the app itself. Nothing about your files, or how you use them, is sent anywhere unless you specifically ask it to (see error reports above). The optional AI connector and Help diagnose this are both in that category: they act only when you choose, and neither sends anything on its own.