DitDots PDF
Privacy policy
DitDots PDF is a Windows application for working with PDF files and images. It was built for client case files, so it is designed to keep everything on your computer.
Effective 10 November 2026
In short
DitDots PDF does not collect, send or share any of your data. It has no account, no telemetry, no advertising and no code that connects to the internet. Your documents are opened, edited, recognized (OCR) and saved on your own PC, and nothing about them is transmitted to the developer or to anyone else.
Your documents
DitDots PDF reads the PDF files and images you open and writes the new files you save, in the
folders you choose. It never modifies the files you open. Text recognition uses the OCR engine
built into Windows (Windows.Media.Ocr), which runs on your PC.
Photos often carry details recorded by the camera, such as where and when they were taken and on which device. DitDots PDF reads only the picture’s orientation and the lens’s focal length from them, to show the photo upright and to straighten a page photographed at an angle. None of that camera information is copied into the PDFs you save.
When you open several files at once from File Explorer, Windows starts DitDots PDF once per file; the extra copies hand their file names to the window that is already open, through a channel on your PC that only your Windows account can use, and then close.
Password-protected PDFs are opened with the password you type. The password is not stored; a decrypted working copy is kept only while DitDots PDF is running and is deleted when it closes (or, if it closed unexpectedly, the next time it starts).
If you turn on Watch a folder, DitDots PDF checks that one folder every few seconds and opens the PDFs and images it finds there. It only reads them: it never moves, changes or deletes them. Each one is opened from a working copy, which is deleted the same way.
What DitDots PDF keeps on your PC
DitDots PDF stores a few files in its own folder on your computer. If you installed it from
the Microsoft Store, that folder belongs to the app and Windows removes it when you uninstall
DitDots PDF. If you run it without installing, it is %LocalAppData%\DitDotsPdf.
None of these files is sent anywhere.
| File | What it holds | How long |
|---|---|---|
settings.json | Your preferences: theme, thumbnail size, OCR on/off and language, the last folder you opened files from, the folder you chose to watch (if any), your page-stamp settings (including the Bates prefix and next number) and the custom words you asked Find & redact to look for. | Until you change them or uninstall |
logs\usage-YYYY-MM.jsonl | A local usage log: which features were used, page counts, how long operations took, the app version, and error details for troubleshooting. It never contains file names or document text; folder paths are removed from error messages before they are written. | Until you delete it or uninstall |
recovered\ | Repaired copies of damaged PDFs you opened, so you can work with them. | Deleted automatically after 30 days |
temp\ | Previews of the output, decrypted working copies of password-protected files, PDF versions of the images you open, and working copies of files opened from the watched folder. | Deleted when DitDots PDF closes or next starts |
The Usage log link in the app’s status bar opens the logs
folder, so you can read the log or delete it; the other files sit one level up.
The Microsoft Store
If you got DitDots PDF from the Microsoft Store, Microsoft handles the purchase, download and updates under the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Microsoft may give the developer aggregate statistics such as install counts and anonymous crash reports through its developer dashboard, depending on your Windows diagnostic settings. These do not include your documents.
The user guide and links
The built-in user guide opens in your web browser as a local file installed with the app; it loads nothing from the internet. This web page is part of ditdots.com, which has its own privacy policy and cookie policy.
Children
DitDots PDF is a business tool and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone.
Changes
If a future version of DitDots PDF changes any of this, for example by adding an optional online feature, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
Questions about this policy: ditdots.com/contact.