winget install --id=HikariHasegawa.VersoCon -e VersoCon is a free, 100% offline file converter: HEIC photos, PDFs (edit, sign, merge, compress, OCR) and video. No cloud, no account, no telemetry — everything runs entirely on your machine.
Convert photos, PDFs and videos — 100% on your own machine.
VersoCon is a desktop file converter with a real PDF editor, built for people who
don't want their documents in someone else's cloud: HEIC photos from your iPhone,
PDFs to edit and sign, scans to clean, videos to convert. Everything runs on
127.0.0.1, offline, with no account and no telemetry.
VersoCon is free, with no paid tier. If it saves you time, you can support its development:
| Area | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Photos | HEIC / HEIF / JPG / PNG / WebP / BMP / TIFF / GIF → JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF. Batch up to 500 files, quality slider, max-side resize, animated GIFs preserved. One-click EXIF/GPS removal before saving. Download single files or a ZIP. |
| PDF → images · images → PDF · merge · split / extract pages · batch rename · compress (Low / Medium / High) · text extraction and OCR. | |
| PDF editor | Pages: rotate, delete, reorder, insert blank, extract. Review: highlight, sticky notes, freehand ink, text, stamps. Privacy: redaction, find & replace (background and rotated text preserved). Document: watermark, Bates numbering, header/footer, PDF forms. Sign: 8 styles generated from your name (script fonts or your initials), or draw your own. Security: password protect/unprotect, searchable PDF. |
| Scan cleanup | Straighten tilted scans, remove shadows, adaptive black & white, 4-corner perspective crop — for both photos and scanned PDFs. |
| Video | Transcode to MP4 / WebM, extract audio (MP3 / M4A), export animated GIFs. Long jobs show a real progress bar with a cancel button. |
| Comfort | Drag & drop, keyboard navigation, WCAG-measured contrast, animated Manga theme or sober Pro theme, 8 languages. |
versocon-setup-X.Y.Z.exe from Releases and run it.winget install HikariHasegawa.VersoCon # official Windows package manager (live)
scoop bucket add HikariHasegawa https://github.com/lupanostefano/bucket
scoop install versocon # Scoop, from the author's bucket (live)
Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" — why, and what to check
The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns about any unsigned open-source build. That is a generic caution, not a malware report.
Before you run it:
658C314CC440F1AAC226DA1932EAA7C2BBAA59C8FA51965B017A8C6CECEDC1D2).The full guide is in docs/security.md (English / Italiano).
bash install.sh. Native .deb/.AppImage builds are on the roadmap.git clone https://github.com/lupanostefano/versocon.git
cd versocon
python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate # Windows
# source .venv/bin/activate # Linux / macOS
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
Setup scripts (Windows / Linux) also install Tesseract for OCR:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1 # Windows
bash install.sh # Linux / macOS
python run.py # desktop window (pywebview), or browser if unavailable
python run.py --browser # force the default browser
# or without pywebview:
python -m uvicorn app.main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8321
# then open http://127.0.0.1:8321
ffmpeg — video conversion, audio extraction, GIF export.Tesseract — OCR and searchable PDFs.127.0.0.1 and validates every request (CSRF / DNS-rebinding
protection, no path traversal); conversion never calls the network.versocon/
├─ app/ # FastAPI: API endpoints, jobs, security, update check
├─ converters/ # conversion engines (images, documents, video, PDF, signature, scan)
├─ static/ # frontend HTML+CSS+JS (no build step) + vendor (pdf.js)
├─ assets/ # fonts, logo, demo GIF
├─ packaging/ # PyInstaller spec, icons, Inno Setup, MSIX
├─ tests/ # pytest suite + real-browser smoke test
├─ run.py # desktop/browser launcher
└─ PROGRESS.md # development state & roadmap
.venv\Scripts\python -m pytest tests -q # Windows
python -m pytest tests -q # Linux / macOS
Real-browser smoke test (Playwright, pinned; excluded from the normal run):
pip install -r requirements-e2e.txt && python -m playwright install chromium
VERSOCON_E2E=1 python -m pytest tests/test_smoke_e2e.py -q # Windows: $env:VERSOCON_E2E="1"
Issues and pull requests are welcome. VersoCon is free, with no paid tier: if it saves you time, you can buy the developer a coffee — thank you.
MIT — free to use, modify and redistribute.