List of PDF software
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. 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 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 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 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: 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 Viewers 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 Converters 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