List of PDF software Wikipedia. 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. Multi platformeditConverterseditThese allow users to convert PDF files to other formats. For software to convert other formats to PDF, see the various Creators sections below. For software to convert HTMLCSS to PDF, see also the HTML to PDF converters entries in Comparison of HTML to PDF converters. Name. License. Platforms. Description. Linux. Mac. Windows. Other. GIMPGNU GPLYes. Yes. Yes. Converts PDF to raster images. Image. Magick. Apache. Yes. Yes. Yes. Converts PDF to raster images and vice versa. Raw June 9. Libre. Office. GNU LGPLv. MPLv. 2. 0. Yes. Yes. Yes. Import from PDF extension included by default, export as PDF including PDFA. Open. Office. org. GNU LGPLv. 3Yes. Yes. Yes. Import from PDF with restrictions after installing an extension, export as PDF including PDFA. PDFBox. Apache License. Yes. Yes. Unix. Converts PDF to other file format text, images, html,. Poppler utils. GNU GPLYes. Yes. Unix. Converts PDF to other file format text, images, html,. GNU GPLYes. Yes. Unix. Converts Post. Script to other vector graphics file format. QPDFArtistic License 2. Yes. Yes. Structural, content preserving transformations from PDF to PDFpdf parser. Install Okular On Windows' title='Install Okular On Windows' />Public Domain. Python script. Extraction and analysis tool, handles corrupt and malicious PDF documents. Solid Converter PDFProprietary. Yes. Yes. PDF to Word, Excel, HTML and Text supports passwords, text editing, and batch conversion. SWFTools. GNU GPLYes. Yes. Yes. SWF conversion and manipulation suite containing a standalone PDF to SWF converter along with a Python gfx API requires Xpdf Nitro PDFProprietary. Yes. Converts PDF to Word, Excel, Power. Point, raster images. Mobipocket Creator. Proprietary. Yes. Import from PDF and create HTML and MOBI output. Well show you how to quickly add your signature to any PDF document, saving it as a standard PDF file that can be read anywhere. You can do this on Windows, Mac. Important links. Whats new in Linux Mint 18. Cinnamon Download mirrors User guide Release announcement Tips Moving windows which dont fit in the screen. Learn about the Linux Equivalents to Windows Software, Programs, and Applications. Free Course. I realize for most of you this is probably old news. I have been taking a first look at C a little while ago, because I wanted to know if it is worth looking into. Inkscape. GNU GPLYes. Yes. Yes. Import Export from PDF to Vector graphics. Scribus. GNU GPLYes. Yes. Yes. Unix, GNUHurd, Haiku, OS2. OpenExport PDF and many other formats, multi pages and multi layers too. EditorseditThese allow users to modify an existing PDF file. Name. License. Platforms. Description. Libre. Office Draw. GNU LGPLWindows, Mac OS, Linux. PDF viewing and editing. Has many of the features offered by Acrobat. Scribus. GNU GPLWindows, Mac OS, Linux. PDF viewing and editing. Supports JS forms. Open. Office Draw. GNU LGPLWindows, Mac OS, Linux. PDF import via Open. Office. org software, or extensions. Inkscape. GNU GPLWindows, Mac OS, Linux. Open, edit and export documents, but only one page at a time pages can be later combined using PDF printerPDFedit. GNU GPLWindows, Linux, BSDSoftware to view or edit the internal structures of PDF documents, and merge them. Pdftk. GNU GPLWindows, Mac OS, Linux, Free. BSD, Solaris. Command line tools to edit and convert documents supports filling of PDF forms with FDFXFDF data. GUI front end exists. PDFsam. Affero GPLv. Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Free. BSD, Solaris. PDFsam Basic is a free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files. Nitro PDFProprietary. Windows. Rich UI, allows combining PDFs, converting to other formats, editing add images, shapes, text, etc. PDF Studio. Proprietary. Windows, Mac OS, Linux. Full feature PDF editor. Karbon. GNU GPLLGPLWindows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, SolarisIllumos. Import PDF with multiple pages as layouts, export as a one page PDF. All standard vector graphics editor features. Serif Page. Plus. Proprietary. Windows. Desktop publishing DTP application allows opening and editing of PDF documents Allows compatible saving as PDF 1. PDFX1, PDFX1a and PDFX 3. Soda PDFProprietary. Windows, Mac OS XModular PDF software. Microsoft Word. Proprietary. Windows. Save To PDF option was added in version 2. Word can also open PDF for editing. Development librarieseditThese 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. 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 PDFi. Text. AGPLLibrary to create and manipulate PDF, RTF, HTML files in Java, C, and other. NET languages. Jasper. Reports. GNU LGPLOpen 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. ProprietaryGNU LGPLJava developer library for viewing, extracting, and printing PDF files. LEADTOOLSProprietary. NET, CC, Java, and HTML5 developer library for reading, writing, viewing, annotating, and extracting text from PDF files. Haru. ZLIBLIBPNGOpen source, cross platform C library to generate PDF files. PDFTron Systems. Proprietary. C, C, C. NET, JAVA, Objective C, Python, Ruby and PHP library for creating, editing, annotating, optimizing and viewing PDF files. GNU LGPLOpen source C library to read and write the PDF files. Poppler. GNU GPLOpen source multi backend C library derived from Xpdf no bundled viewer incl. TCPDFGNU LGPLOpen source PHP library to create PDF files. XEPProprietary. XSL FO layout engine written in Java output formats PDFCreatorseditThese create files in their native formats, but then allow users to export them to PDF formats. Name. License. Platforms. Description. Adobe Acrobat. Proprietary. Windows, Mac. OS XDesktop PDF authoring suite. Adobe Illustrator. Proprietary. Windows, Mac. OS XIllustrator can save as PDF, and can recognize and edit text and graphics. Fine. Reader. ProprietaryOCR tool can save as PDF, and recognize text from PDFGhostscript. GNU GPLLinux, Windows, Mac OS X, UNIXViewer, creator, converter supports also PDFX 3 used by Pdf. Volo View Express 3.0 more. Creator until v. NET Framework 4 since v. Win. Pdf, Bull Pdf, Cute. PDF freeware version and others. Microsoft Office. Proprietary. Windows, Mac OS XAll Microsoft Office products from 2. Save as PDFOpen. Office. GNU GPLLinux, Windows, Mac. All Open. Office. PDF export supports also PDFA 1a since many import formats are supported e. Libre. Office. GNU GPLLinux, Windows, Mac. All Libre. Office applications allow PDF export supports also PDFA 1a since many import formats are supported e. Serif Page. Plus. Proprietary. Windows. Desktop publishing DTP application Allows compatible saving as PDF 1. PDFX1, PDFX1a and PDFX 3. Page. Stream. Proprietary Cross platform desktop publishing application to open, edit, export. Prince. Proprietary. Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris,Converts HTML, XML, SVG, and Math. ML to PDF by way of CSSScribus. GNU GPLLinuxUNIX, Mac OS X, OS2 Warp 4e. Com. Station and Windows desktops. Cross platform desktop publishing DTP application supports also PDFX 3. XEPProprietary. BSD, Linux, Mac, Windows Java basedConverts XML and XSL FO to PDFLa. Te. X, Te. XLa. Te.