List of PDF software

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This is a list of links to articles on software used to manage Portable Document Format (PDF)
documents. The distinction between the various functions is not entirely clear-cut; for example,
some viewers allow adding of annotations, signatures, etc. Some software allows redaction,
removing content irreversibly for security. Extracting embedded text is a common feature, but
other applications perform optical character recognition (OCR) to convert imaged text to machine-
readable form, sometimes by using an external OCR module.

Contents

• 1Terminology
• 2Multi-platform
o 2.1Development libraries
o 2.2Creators
o 2.3Viewers
• 3AmigaOS
o 3.1Converters
o 3.2Viewers
• 4Linux and Unix
• 5macOS
o 5.1Converters
o 5.2Editors
o 5.3Creators
o 5.4Viewers
• 6Microsoft Windows
o 6.1Converters
o 6.2Creators
o 6.3Editors
o 6.4Viewers
• 7Mobile
• 8Web-based
o 8.1Converters
o 8.2Editors
o 8.3Viewers
• 9References
• 10External links

Terminology[edit]

• Creators – to allow users to convert other file formats to PDF.

• Readers – to allow users to open, read and print PDF files.
• Editors – to allow users to edit or otherwise modify PDF files.
• Converters – to allow users to convert PDF files to other formats.
Multi-platform[edit]

Platforms Conve
rts Edits
PDF to existi
Name License Description
other ng
Lin Ma Windo
Other forma PDF
ux c ws
t

View, create,
Adobe
Proprietary No Yes Yes Yes Yes manipulate, print and
Acrobat
manage files in PDF.

Converts PDF
GIMP GNU GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes
to raster images.

Converts PDF
ImageMagic ImageMagick
Yes Yes Yes Yes to raster images and
k License[1]
vice versa.

Import from PDF

GNU
(extension included
LibreOffice LGPLv3 / MPL Yes Yes Yes Yes
by default), export as
v2.0
PDF including PDF/A.

Import from PDF

(with restrictions)
OpenOffice.
GNU LGPLv3 Yes Yes Yes Yes (after installing an
org
extension), export as
PDF including PDF/A.

Converts PDF to other

Apache
PDFBox Yes Yes Unix Yes file format (text,
License 2.0
images, html).

Converts PDF to other

Poppler-
GNU GPL Yes Yes Unix Yes file format (text,
utils
images, html).

Converts PostScript to
pstoedit GNU GPL Yes Yes Unix Yes (other) vector
graphics file format.
 Platforms Conve
rts Edits
PDF to existi
Name License Description
other ng
Lin Ma Windo
Other forma PDF
ux c ws
t

Structural, content-
Apache preserving
QPDF Yes Yes Yes
License 2.0 transformations from
PDF to PDF.

Extraction and
Python analysis tool, handles
pdf-parser Public Domain Yes
script corrupt and malicious
PDF documents.

PDF to Word, Excel,

Solid HTML and Text;
Converter Proprietary Yes Yes Yes supports passwords,
PDF text editing, and
batch conversion.

SWF conversion and

manipulation suite
containing a
SWFTools GNU GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes standalone PDF to
SWF converter along
with a Python gfx API
(requires Xpdf).

Supports merging,
splitting, and
extracting pages from
PDFs. Also rotating,
Smallpdf deleting and
Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes
Desktop reordering pages.
Converts PDF to
Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, raster
images.

Import from PDF and

Mobipocket
Proprietary Yes Yes create HTML and
Creator
MOBI output.
 Platforms Conve
rts Edits
PDF to existi
Name License Description
other ng
Lin Ma Windo
Other forma PDF
ux c ws
t

Import-/Export- from
PDF to (Vector-
)graphics. Export
documents only one
Inkscape GNU GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
page at a time (pages
can be later
combined using PDF
printer).

Export PDF and many

other formats, multi-
Unix, pages and multi-
Scribus GNU GPL Yes Yes Yes GNU/Hurd, Yes layers. Supports JS
Haiku, OS/2 forms

Cannot edit PDF

Files.[2]

PDF viewing and

LibreOffice GNU LGPLv3 / editing. Has many of
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Draw MPLv2.0 the features offered
by Adobe Acrobat.

PDF import
OpenOffice
GNU LGPL Yes Yes Yes Yes via OpenOffice.org so
Draw
ftware, or extensions.

Software to view or
edit the internal
PDFedit GNU GPL Yes Yes BSD Yes structures of PDF
documents, and
merge them.

Command-line tools
to edit and convert
documents; supports
FreeBSD,
Pdftk GNU GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes filling of PDF forms
Solaris
with FDF/XFDF data.

GUI front-end exists

(see PDFChain).

Full feature PDF

PDF Studio Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes
editor.
 Platforms Conve
rts Edits
PDF to existi
Name License Description
other ng
Lin Ma Windo
Other forma PDF
ux c ws
t

Import PDF with

multiple pages as
BSD, layouts, export as a
GNU
Karbon Yes Yes Yes Solaris/Illu Yes one-page PDF. All
GPL/LGPL
mos standard vector
graphics editor
features.

Desktop publishing
(DTP) application
allows opening and
editing of PDF
Serif documents; Allows
Proprietary Yes Yes
PagePlus compatible saving as
PDF 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and
1.7 and supports also
PDF/X1, PDF/X1a and
PDF/X-3.

Modular PDF
Soda PDF Proprietary Yes Yes
software.

Development libraries[edit]
These are used by software developers to add and create PDF features.

Name License Description

C++, .NET, Java API with support for PDF editing, viewing,
Adobe PDF Library Proprietary
printing and text extractions.

Java developer library for creating, view, extract, print PDF

Apache PDFBox Apache License
files.

Open-source Java based Business Intelligence

and Reporting Tools (BIRT) that can create output into PDF,
HTML, Web Viewer, Microsoft XLS, XLSX, Doc, Docx, PPT,
BIRT Project EPL 2.0
PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, Postscript, comma-separated values
and XML files and can be integrated into websites or
extended for individual formats and database output.
 Name License Description

Open-source print formatter driven by XSL Formatting

Formatting Objects Processor Apache License Objects and an output independent formatter; main output
target is PDF.

Library to create and manipulate PDF, RTF, HTML files in Java,

iText Proprietary/AGPL
C#, and other .NET languages.

Open-source Java reporting tool that can write to screen,

JasperReports GNU LGPL printer, or into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT,
comma-separated values and XML files.

Java developer library for viewing, extracting, and printing

JPedal Proprietary/GNU LGPL
PDF files.

libHaru ZLIB/LIBPNG Open-source, cross-platform C library to generate PDF files.

Open source library to create and manipulate PDF files

OpenPDF GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0 in Java. Fork of an older version of iText, but with the original
LGPL / MPL license.

PDFsharp MIT C# developer library to create, extract, edit PDF files.

podofo GNU LGPL Open-source C++ library to read and write the PDF files.

Open-source multi-backend C++ library derived from Xpdf; no

Poppler GNU GPL
bundled viewer; incl. pdftohtml converter.

TCPDF GNU LGPL Open-source PHP library to create PDF files.

Creators[edit]
These create files in their native formats, but then allow users to export them to PDF formats.

Name License Platforms Description

Adobe Acrobat Proprietary Windows, macOS Desktop PDF authoring suite.

 Name License Platforms Description

Illustrator can save as PDF,

Adobe Illustrator Proprietary Windows, macOS and can recognize and edit
text and graphics.

Windows, macOS, OCR tool; can save as PDF,

FineReader Proprietary
Linux and recognize text from PDF.

Viewer, creator, converter;

supports also PDF/X-3; used
by PdfCreator (until v1.7.3
Linux, Windows,
Ghostscript Proprietary/AGPL then .NET Framework 4 since
macOS, UNIX
v2.0.0), WinPdf, BullzipPdf,
CutePDF freeware version
and others.

All Microsoft Office products

Microsoft Office Proprietary Windows, macOS from 2007 version allow
users to Save as PDF.

All OpenOffice.org
applications allow PDF
export; supports also PDF/A-
Linux, Windows,
OpenOffice.org GNU LGPL 1a; since many import
macOS
formats are supported (e.g.,
doc, docx, rtf, xls, ppt)
conversion is also possible.

All LibreOffice applications

allow PDF export; supports
Linux, Windows, also PDF/A-1a; since many
LibreOffice GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0
macOS import formats are supported
(e.g., doc, docx, rtf, xls, ppt)
conversion is also possible.

Desktop publishing (DTP)

application; Allows
compatible saving as PDF 1.3,
Serif PagePlus Proprietary Windows
1.4, 1.5 and 1.7 and supports
also PDF/X-1, PDF/X-1a and
PDF/X-3.
 Name License Platforms Description

Cross-platform desktop
PageStream Proprietary ? publishing application to
open, edit, export.

Converts HTML, XML, SVG,

Linux, macOS,
Prince Proprietary and MathML to PDF by way
Windows, Solaris,
of CSS.

Linux/UNIX,
Cross-platform desktop
macOS, OS/2 Warp
Scribus GNU GPL publishing (DTP) application;
4/eComStation and
supports also PDF/X-3.
Windows desktops

Mark-up language and tools

to write technical reports,
LaTeX, TeX LaTeX Project Public License, Permissive ?
books, magazines, almost any
publication type.

TeX typesetting system that

LuaTeX GNU GPL ?
creates PDF documents.

TeX typesetting system that

pdfTeX GNU GPL ?
creates PDF documents.

TeX typesetting system that

XeTeX MIT ?
creates PDF documents.

Viewers[edit]
See also: Comparison of e-book readers

These allow users to view (not edit or modify) any existing PDF file.

Name License Description

Adobe Reader Proprietary, freeware Adobe's PDF reader

DigiSigner Proprietary, freeware PDF viewer with added function to digitally sign PDF documents.

Evince GNU GPL Universal viewer for GNOME.

 Name License Description

PDF Viewer / Reader for Desktop computer and Mobile Devices.

Foxit Reader Proprietary, adware Allows users to add many elements to PDFs (e.g. arrowed
comment boxes, text boxes, links, bookmarks, and images).

Ghostview Aladdin Free Public License A graphical interface for Ghostscript.

Browser includes PDF viewer functionality. Google

Chromium BSD Chrome (which is based on Chromium) uses the same PDF
viewer.

MuPDF Proprietary/AGPL PDF conversion and rendering with anti-aliased graphics.

Okular GNU GPL Universal viewer by KDE.

A JavaScript library to convert PDF files into HTML5, usable as a

PDF.js Apache License 2.0 web-based viewer that can be included in web
browsers. Firefox has PDF.js built-in by default.

View PDFs in a variety of zoom layouts, annotate, tag, search,

Qiqqa Proprietary, freeware
cross-reference.

Semantic scientific PDF reader (optimized for life sciences and

medicine), allows public comments on PDFs, generates on-the-
Utopia Documents GNU GPL v3
fly link-outs to scientific databases and resources when used
while online.

Multi-platform viewer; source and binaries available for Linux,

Xpdf GNU GPL/Proprietary
Windows and Macintosh.

AmigaOS[edit]
Converters[edit]
• Antiword: A free Microsoft Office Word reader for various operating systems; converts binary
files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text or PostScript; available
for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS x86
• dvipdfm: a DVI to PDF translator with zlib support
Viewers[edit]
• Xpdf: a multi-platform viewer for PDF files, Amiga version uses X11 engine Cygnix.
Linux and Unix[edit]

Functions

Name License Description

Vie Annota Edi Creat Conve Librar
w te t e rt y

KDE desktop environment;

replaces KPDF. Supports a
range of annotation types.
Annotations are stored
separately from the
Okular GNU GPL Yes Yes
unmodified PDF file, or
(since version 0.15
with Poppler 0.20) can be
saved in the document as
standard PDF annotations.

Default PDF and file viewer

for GNOME; replaces GPdf.
Evince GNU GPL Yes Yes Supports addition and
removal (since v3.14), of
basic text note annotations.

Printing system can render

any document to a PDF file,
Apache
CUPS No No No Yes thus any Linux program
License 2.0
with print capability can
produce PDF files

Command-line tools to
merge, split, en-/decrypt,
watermark/stamp and
Pdftk GPLv2 No Yes Yes
manipulate PDF document
files. Front end to an older
version of the iText library.

Utility library for rendering

Portable Document Format
(PDF) documents. poppler-
utils includes command-line
tools to extract images from
poppler GNU GPL Yes Yes
a PDF (pdfimages) and
convert a PDF to other
formats
(pdftohtml, pdftotext, pdfto
ppm).
 Functions

Name License Description

Vie Annota Edi Creat Conve Librar
w te t e rt y

Part of Ghostscript;
ps2pdf GNU AGPL Yes converts a PostScript file to
a PDF.

SWFToo pdf2swf component

GNU GPL Yes
ls converts PDF to SWF.

Open source program for

Scribus GNU GPL Yes
page layout.

Open source multi-backend

library for viewing and
manipulating PDF files.
Xpdf GNU GPL Yes Yes
Bundled with a viewer with
the same name for the X
Window System.

PDF Software for viewing and

Proprietary Yes Yes
Studio editing PDF documents

Technically not a PDF

Inkscap
GNU GPL Yes editor, but can be used as
e
such page by page

Extant versions are

Adobe Proprietary
Yes obsolete, Adobe has
Reader freeware
stopped support for Linux.

Firefox MPL Yes Includes a PDF viewer

Google Proprietary
Yes Includes a PDF viewer
Chrome freeware

Proprietary/AG Lightweight document

MuPDF Yes Yes Yes
PL viewer.
 Functions

Name License Description

Vie Annota Edi Creat Conve Librar
w te t e rt y

Lightweight document
Zathura zlib License Yes viewer with vim-like
keybindings.

macOS[edit]
Converters[edit]
• deskUNPDF for Mac: proprietary application from Docudesk to convert PDF files to Microsoft
Office, OpenOffice.org, image, and data file formats
Editors[edit]
• Adobe Acrobat: Proprietary PDF authoring suite
• PDF Expert: Proprietary PDF viewer and editor.
• PDF Studio: Proprietary software to view and edit PDF documents.
• PDF Signer: Proprietary; fills forms and embeds image signatures in PDF documents
Creators[edit]
• macOS: Creates PDF documents natively via print dialog
Viewers[edit]
• Safari: This bundled web browser has built-in support for reading PDF documents.
• Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer
• Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer
• Preview: macOS's default PDF viewer; in Mac OS X v10.5 and later, it also can rotate, reorder,
annotate, insert, and delete pages. It can also merge files, create new files from existing files,
and move pages between files
• Adobe Reader: Adobe Systems's reader which is also available for Macintosh; Safari plug-in
available
• Skim, an open-source (BSD licence) PDF reader and note-taker for macOS
• Foxit Reader: Proprietary, freeware. Allows users to add elements to PDFs (e.g. arrowed
comment boxes, text boxes, links, bookmarks, and images)

Microsoft Windows[edit]
Converters[edit]
• Adobe Acrobat: Can convert files into PDF or convert PDF files into other formats
• ABBYY FineReader: Commercial PDF converter which converts PDF into Word (.doc), Excel
(.xls), PowerPoint (ppt), and more
• deskUNPDF: PDF converter to convert PDFs to Word (.doc, docx), Excel (.xls), (.csv), (.txt),
more
• GSview: File:Convert menu item converts any sequence of PDF pages to a sequence of images
in many formats from bit to tiffpack with resolutions from 72 to 204 × 98 (open source software)
• Google Chrome: convert HTML to PDF using Print > Save as PDF.
 • gDoc Fusion: Proprietary, shareware; PDF views, edits, converts documents into
PDF, XPS or Microsoft Word document; after 30 days a watermark is placed on documents in
shareware version
• OmniPage: Converts to and from PDF and other formats with many options.
• Nitro PDF Reader: (Freeware) Extracts Images in original resolution.
• PDF-XChange: PDF Tools and PDF-XChange print driver allow conversion from many formats
to PDF. A "lite" version of the print driver is free for non-commercial (home and academic) but
places a watermark on documents
• Qiqqa: Converts Microsoft Word document and Web Pages to PDF.
• SWFTools: 'pdf2swf component converts PDF to SWF – command line with GUI wrapper
• poppler-utils a collection of tools builds on poppler to convert PDF contents to everything
• GraphicsMagick: Can convert PDF to PNG or other formats.
Creators[edit]

Freeware
Name License Description
version

Virtual printer, requires Ghostscript and

Bullzip PDF Printer Proprietary Yes
PDFPowerTool.

Virtual Printer. Creates a PDF with

embedded Creative Commons license from
CC PDF Converter GNU GPL —
any software. Bundled with optional
proprietary Razoss adware and browser tools.

Virtual printer, also with proprietary PDF

editor. Attempts to install the Ask Toolbar as
CutePDF Proprietary Yes well as Hotspot Shield. Can be avoided by
using the /no3d command-line switch.
Includes OpenCandy adware.

deskPDF Proprietary No Available for both client and terminal servers.

Virtual printer. It doesn't use Ghostscript.

doPDF Proprietary Yes
Includes adware.

eCopy PaperWorks Proprietary No

Foxit PhantomPDF Proprietary No

Foxit Reader PDF Printer Proprietary Yes Virtual printer that comes with Foxit Reader.

gDoc Creator Proprietary, shareware No Enterprise-level creator to create, review, edit,

share or archive PDF and XPS documents. After
 Freeware
Name License Description
version

30 days shareware version places a watermark

on documents.

Manual and documentation authoring tool

HelpNDoc Proprietary Yes
with native PDF export. Free for personal use.

Image analysis and desk top publishing

software dedicated to microscope users, and
distributed under different brands by most
Mountains Proprietary No
microscope manufacturers. The pages
produced can be saved into proprietary
format, RTF and PDF.

As with Adobe Acrobat, Nitro PDF Pro's reader

is free; but unlike Adobe's free reader, Nitro's
free reader allows PDF creation (via a virtual
Nitro PDF Reader Proprietary Yes printer driver, or by specifying a filename in
the reader's interface, or by drag-'n-drop of a
file to Nitro PDF Reader's Windows desktop
icon); Ghostscript not needed.

Desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing,

PagePlus Proprietary No
editing and creation features

Desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing,

PaperPort Proprietary No
editing and creation features

Virtual printer for Windows using a custom

license called FairPlay. Used Ghostscript GPL
PDFCreator GNU GPL/Proprietary Yes
until v1.7.3. Now uses .NET Framework 4.
Includes adware.

A PDF creator and virtual PDF printer for

PDF24 Creator Proprietary Yes
Microsoft Windows

PDF Tools allows creation of PDFs from many

types of source input (images, scans, etc.). The
PDF-XChange print driver allows printing
PDF-XChange Proprietary Yes
directly to a PDF. A "lite" version of the print
driver is free for non-commercial (home and
academic) use.
 Freeware
Name License Description
version

Virtual printer, for Microsoft .NET Framework

and uses Ghostscript and RedMon. Connects
PrimoPDF Proprietary Yes
with www.primopdf.com. Includes Open
Candy adware.

Solid PDF Creator Proprietary No

Universal Document Converter Proprietary No Virtual printer. It doesn't use Ghostscript.

Graphic design software with PDF creation plus

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Proprietary No
import, viewing and limited editing

Editors[edit]

Name License Description

Adobe
Proprietary Adobe Systems's proprietary desktop PDF authoring suite.
Acrobat

Adobe
Proprietary Adobe Systems's Graphic Design software and image editor.
Photoshop

Bluebeam A commercial PDF editor, markup and collaboration product aimed at

Proprietary
Revu engineering and architectural markets.

Foxit Reader Freeware Highlight text, draw lines, measure distances of PDF documents.

desktop product to create, review, edit, share or archive PDF and XPS
gDoc Fusion Proprietary/Shareware documents. After 30 days a watermark is placed on documents in shareware
version.

Free (Mozilla Public

LibreOffice GUI tools to manipulate, split, merge, encrypt and decrypt PDF files.
License)

Microsoft Desktop software. The 2013 edition of Office allows PDF files to be converted
Proprietary
Word 2013 into a format that can be edited.
 Name License Description

Nitro PDF
Freeware Text highlighting, draw lines and measure distances in PDF files.
Reader

a proprietary commercial PDF creator/editor with an interface styled

after Microsoft Office; replicates most or all features of the Adobe Acrobat full
Nitro PDF
Proprietary commercial version; offers a separate freeware reader (which also supports
Pro
PDF creation, annotation, collaboration and signing); Ghostscript not
additionally needed.

PDF Studio Proprietary Proprietary software for viewing and editing PDF documents.

command-line tools to manipulate, edit and convert documents; supports

pdftk GNU GPL/Proprietary
filling of PDF forms with FDF/XFDF data.

PDF- Freeware PDF reader, tagger, editor (simple editions) and converter (free for
XChange Freeware non-commercial uses). Allows edit of text, draw lines, highlighting of Text,
Viewer measuring distance.

Solid PDF Convert PDFs into editable documents and create PDFs from a variety of file
Proprietary
Tools sources.

Viewers[edit]
• Adobe Reader: Adobe's PDF reader is free for personal use.
• Evince: a free (GPL), open source PDF reader. Part of the GNOME desktop environment. A
Windows port was available from version 2.28 to version 2.32.
• Foxit Reader: Proprietary/freeware PDF reader, supports FDF import/export, saving filled forms;
other extended functionality available via purchasable plugins.
• gDoc Fusion: Proprietary/shareware to view PDF, XPS, Microsoft Word document, Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or image files, included in the evaluation
version of the product. Shareware version places a watermark on documents after 30-day eval.
• Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer.
• GSview: Open source software and Ghostscript's viewer for Windows.
• Javelin PDF Reader: A full functionality PDF reader with support for DRM using encoded and
encrypted PDF files in Drumlin's DRMX and DRMZ formats.
• Microsoft Edge: Includes a PDF viewer.
• Microsoft Reader: A discontinued PDF viewer in Windows 8.1.
• Mozilla Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer.
• MuPDF: Free lightweight document viewer.
• Nitro PDF Reader: Freeware (though proprietary) PDF reader and creator. Supports three
methods (specifying the file within the reader's interface, or dragging-'n-dropping a file onto the
reader's Windows desktop icon, or "printing" to a virtual printer driver) of PDF creation
(Ghostscript not additionally needed), saving filled forms (AcroForms), text typewriter,
markup/collaboration, and stamp signature (document signing).
• PDF-XChange Viewer: Freeware viewer with free OCR, supports FDF/XFDF import/export,
saving filled forms, extended markup and export to image capabilities.
 • Qiqqa: Freeware PDF reader, indexer, tagger and annotator. Supports OCR and export of PDF
text and images.
• Sumatra PDF: A free (GPL), open source PDF reader based on MuPDF. It also supports DjVu,
XPS, CHM, Comic Book (CBR, CBT, CBZ and CB7Z) and eBook (EPUB, FB2, FB2Z, PBD,
MOBI, PBR, TCR & ZFB2), TXT and image file formats (.tga, .gif, .jpg, .j2k, .png, .webp, .tiff).
Supports automatic .pdfsync & .synctex reloading of PDF files so is well favoured as a LaTeX /
pdfTeX viewer with forward - inverse synchronization. Using Ghost script it supports PostScript
(.ps, .eps) files.[3]
• STDU Viewer: A freeware for non-commercial usage PDF reader. It also supports DjVu, Comic
Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), XPS, TIFF, TXT and image file formats.
• PDF24 Creator: The lightweight PDF24 Reader is part of the PDF24 Creator.

Mobile[edit]

Platform Functions

Name License Description

Android iOS Other View Annotate

BlackBerry OS
Amazon Kindle webOS
Freeware Yes Yes Yes ?
app Windows
Phone

Evince GNU GPL ? ? Maemo Yes ?

Foxit PDF Editor ? Yes Yes Yes Yes

Google Drive
Freeware Yes Yes Yes ?
app

Apple Books Proprietary No Yes Yes ?

Lightweight document
MuPDF GNU AGPL Yes Yes Yes No
viewer

Qiqqa Proprietary Yes ? Yes Yes

Web-based[edit]
Converters[edit]
• Zamzar: Online file converter
• Smallpdf: Offers free (trail) online PDF conversion (PDF to other formats and vice versa)
 Editors[edit]
• PDFescape: an advertising and fee supported web service to view, create forms, fill out forms,
and edit PDF documents from a web browser (requires JavaScript to be enabled)
• PDFVue: a free web application that allows the user to view PDFs, comment and fill PDF forms
from a web browser. Generates a watermark.
• Smallpdf: Free (trail) web-based PDF software for editing, signing, compressing, merging,
splitting, rotating, unlocking and protecting PDF files.
Viewers[edit]
• A.nnotate: a web service which views PDF documents as HTML in the browser, with annotation
features.
• DigiSigner: free online PDF viewer java applet with additional function to digitally sign PDF
documents.
• Docstoc: a web service which allows viewing PDF documents online.
• Issuu: a web service which allows viewing PDF documents online.
• Google Docs: a web service which views PDF documents as PNG images in the browser.
• Scribd: a web service which renders PDF documents as HTML5 in the browser.
• PDF.js: A Javascript-based library, with viewer, and browser extension.
• PDFTron Systems: WebViewer. A free JavaScript viewer and annotator for self-hosting of web
optimized PDFs.

References[edit]

1. ^ "ImageMagick: License". ImageMagick. Retrieved 26 October 2016.

2. ^ "Editing - Scribus Wiki". wiki.scribus.net. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
3. ^ "Supported document formats".

External links[edit]

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PDF software

• Evince

• KPDF

• LibreOffice

• LibHaru

• MuPDF

• Okular

• PDF.js
• PDF Split and Merge

• podofo

• Poppler

• Scribus
 • Skim

• Sumatra PDF

• Xpdf

• Zathura

• Foxit Reader

• PDF-XChange Viewer
Freeware
• STDU Viewer

• Apple Books

• Adobe Acrobat

• Nitro PDF

• PDF Signer

• Pdfvue
Commercial
• Preview

• Soda PDF
• WPS Office

• PDF Studio

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