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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.

2Multi-platform
3AmigaOS
5macOS
6Microsoft Windows
8Web-based

Terminology[edit]

Converters: These allow users to convert PDF files to other formats.
Creators: Software to convert other formats to PDF.
Editors: These allow users to modify an existing PDF file.

Multi-platform[edit]

Name	License	Platforms				Converts PDF to other format	Edits existing PDF	Description
Name	License	Linux	Mac	Windows	Other	Converts PDF to other format	Edits existing PDF	Description
GIMP	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Converts PDF to raster images
ImageMagick	Apache	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Converts PDF to raster images and vice versa
LibreOffice	GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Import from PDF (extension included by default), export as PDF including PDF/A.
OpenOffice.org	GNU LGPLv3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Import from PDF (with restrictions) (after installing an extension), export as PDF including PDF/A.
PDFBox	Apache License	Yes	Yes	Unix	Yes	Converts PDF to other file format (text, images, html, ...)
Poppler-utils	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Unix	Yes	Converts PDF to other file format (text, images, html, ...)
pstoedit	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Unix	Yes	Converts PostScript to (other) vector graphics file format
QPDF	Apache License 2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Structural, content-preserving transformations from PDF to PDF
pdf-parser	Public Domain	Python script	Yes	Extraction and analysis tool, handles corrupt and malicious PDF documents
Solid Converter PDF	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	PDF to Word, Excel, HTML and Text; supports passwords, text editing, and batch conversion
SWFTools	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	SWF conversion and manipulation suite containing a standalone PDF to SWF converter along with a Python gfx API ( requires Xpdf )
Smallpdf Desktop	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Supports merging, splitting, and extracting pages from PDFs. Also rotating, deleting and reordering pages. Converts PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, raster images.
Nitro PDF	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Converts PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, raster images . Rich UI, allows combining PDFs, converting to other formats, editing (add images, shapes, text, etc.)
Mobipocket Creator	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Import from PDF and create HTML and MOBI output
Inkscape	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Import-/Export- from PDF to (Vector-)graphics. Export documents only one page at a time (pages can be later combined using PDF printer)
Scribus	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unix, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, OS/2	Yes	Yes	Export PDF and many other formats, multi-pages and multi-layers. Supports JS forms
LibreOffice Draw	GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	PDF viewing and editing. Has many of the features offered by Acrobat.
OpenOffice Draw	GNU LGPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	PDF import via OpenOffice.org software, or extensions
PDFedit	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	BSD	Yes	Software to view or edit the internal structures of PDF documents, and merge them
Pdftk	GNU GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	FreeBSD, Solaris	Yes	Command-line tools to edit and convert documents; supports filling of PDF forms with FDF/XFDF data. GUI front-end exists
PDF Studio	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Full feature PDF editor
Karbon	GNU GPL/LGPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	BSD, Solaris/Illumos	Yes	Import PDF with multiple pages as layouts, export as a one-page PDF. All standard vector graphics editor features.
Serif PagePlus	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Desktop publishing (DTP) application allows opening and editing of PDF documents; Allows compatible saving as PDF 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.7 and supports also PDF/X1, PDF/X1a and PDF/X-3
Soda PDF	Proprietary	Yes	Mac OS X	Yes	Modular PDF software

Development libraries[edit]

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

Name	License	Description
Adobe PDF Library	Proprietary	C++, .NET, Java API with support for PDF editing, viewing, printing and text extractions
Apache PDFBox	Apache License	Java developer library for creating, view, extract, print PDF files.
Formatting Objects Processor	Apache License	Open-source print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects and an output independent formatter; main output target is PDF
iText	Proprietary/AGPL	Library to create and manipulate PDF, RTF, HTML files in Java, C#, and other .NET languages
JasperReports	GNU LGPL	Open-source Java reporting tool that can write to screen, printer, or into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, comma-separated values and XML files
JPedal	Proprietary/GNU LGPL	Java developer library for viewing, extracting, and printing PDF files.
LEADTOOLS	Proprietary	.NET, C/C++, Java, and HTML5 developer library for reading, writing, viewing, annotating, and extracting text from PDF files.
libHaru	ZLIB/LIBPNG	Open-source, cross-platform C library to generate PDF files
OpenPDF	GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0	Open source library to create and manipulate PDF files in Java. Fork of an older version of iText, but with the original LGPL

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