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 Redaction is a form of editing in which multiple sources of texts are combined and altered slightly to make a single document. Often this is a method of collecting a series of writings on a similar theme and creating a definitive and coherent wo ...

, 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.

Terminology

*''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

Development libraries

These are used by software developers to add and create PDF features.

Creators

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

Viewers

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

AmigaOS

Converters

* Antiword: A free

Microsoft Office Word Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name ''Multi-Tool Word'' for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms includin ...

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 The device independent file format (DVI) is the output file format of the TeX typesetting program, designed by David R. Fuchs and implemented by Donald E. Knuth in 1982. Unlike the TeX markup files used to generate them, DVI files are not inten ...

: a DVI to PDF translator with zlib support

Viewers

* Xpdf: a multi-platform viewer for PDF files, Amiga version uses X11 engine Cygnix.

Linux and Unix

Converters

* Collabora Online can be used as a web application, a command line tool, or a Java/Python library. Supported formats include OpenDocument, PDF, HTML, Microsoft Office formats (DOC/DOCX/RTF, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX) and others.

Creators, Editors and Viewers

macOS

Converters

* deskUNPDF for Mac: proprietary application from

Docudesk Docudesk offers commercial PDF software for creating and converting portable document format (PDF) files. deskPDF is used for creating PDFs from Windows applications. The professional version includes PDF merging, Office integration, & 40-bit or ...

to convert PDF files to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, image, and data file formats

Creators

* macOS: Creates PDF documents natively via print dialog

Editors

Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (forme ...

: Proprietary PDF authoring suite * PDF Expert: Proprietary PDF viewer and editor. *

PDF Studio PDF Studio is a commercial desktop application from Qoppa Software to create, convert, review, annotate, and edit Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. System requirements PDF Studio runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix Unix (; tradema ...

: Proprietary software to view and edit PDF documents. *

PDF Signer PDF Signer is a PDF editor for macOS. This simple PDF editor was specifically designed to fill and sign PDF documents such as agreements and forms without having to print and scan them. It provides the ability to add text and scanned signature ima ...

: Proprietary; fills forms and embeds image signatures in PDF documents

Viewers

Safari A safari (; ) is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in eastern or southern Africa. The so-called "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo – particularly form an importa ...

: This bundled web browser has built-in support for reading PDF documents. * Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer *

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS ...

: 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 Adobe Inc. ( ), originally called Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the crea ...

'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

Converters

: 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 Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an Interpreter (computing), interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization or Rendering (computer graphic ...

: 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 Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

software) *

: 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 .doc (an abbreviation of "document") is a filename extension used for word processing documents stored on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word Binary File Format. Microsoft has used the extension since 1983. Microsoft Word Binary File Format ...

; 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 Nitro PDF Pro is an application used to create and edit Portable Document Format (PDF) files and digital documents. History Nitro Software was founded in Melbourne, Australia, by a team of three, as an alternative PDF software to Adobe Acrobat ...

: ( 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 SWFTools is an open source software tool suite for creating and manipulating SWF files. Distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later, it may be compiled from C source, to run under Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple OS X. On Microsoft ...

: 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

Editors

Viewers

* ABBYY FineReader PDF Viewer * Adobe Reader: Adobe's PDF reader is free for personal use. * Evince: a free (GPL),

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. *

: Includes a PDF viewer. *

: Open source software and Ghostscript's viewer for Windows. * Microsoft Edge: Includes a PDF viewer. * Microsoft Reader: A discontinued PDF viewer in Windows 8.1. *

Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and a ...

: Includes a PDF viewer. * MuPDF: Free lightweight document viewer. *

: 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 Sumatra PDF is a free and open-source document viewer that supports many document formats including: Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), DjVu, EPUB, FictionBook (FB2), MOBI, PRC, Open XML Paper Specification ( ...

: A free (GPL),

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. *

STDU Viewer STDU Viewer is computer software, a compact viewer for many computer file formats: Portable Document Format (PDF), World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF), DjVu, comic book archive (CBR or CBZ), FB2, ePUB, XML Paper Specification (XPS), Text Compr ...

: 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

Web-based

Creators

* Collabora Online

Converters

* Collabora Online supported formats include OpenDocument, PDF, HTML, Microsoft Office formats (DOC/DOCX/RTF, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX) and others. * Zamzar: Online file converter * Smallpdf: Offers free (trial) online PDF conversion (PDF to other formats and vice versa)

Editors

PDFescape PDFescape is an advertising- and fee-supported WWW, web-based PDF editor program written in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Active Server Pages, ASP. It features PDF editing, form filling, page arrangement, printing, saving, and form publishing. A premiu ...

: 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 PDFVue is an online PDF viewer and editor. Features included viewing, commenting, annotations, page deletion or rotation, and adding fillable form fields to a PDF. Supported browsers included Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. A Firefox e ...

: 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 (trial) web-based PDF software for editing, signing, compressing, merging, splitting, rotating, unlocking and protecting PDF files.

Viewers

A.nnotate A.nnotate is a web service for storing and annotating documents. Documents are either uploaded by the user or fetched from a web address supplied by the user. Uploads are accepted as PDF, Microsoft Word, office formats supported by OpenOffice.org ...

: 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 Google Docs is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google, which also includes: Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google Sites and Google Keep. Google Do ...

: 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

External links

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PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...