Best Open-Source PDF Editors & Tools

9 tools found

Stirling-PDF

Stirling-PDF is a self-hosted PDF toolset replacing Adobe Acrobat and iLovePDF for local page assembly, OCR text extraction, and private file conversion.

95.6kLinuxmacOSWindowstoday

LGPL-3.0PDF Editors & Tools

PDF.js

PDF.js is an open-source library that replaces Adobe Acrobat for web viewing, rendering PDF files in HTML5 Canvas with zero backend server overhead.

54.1kWebLinuxmacOStoday

Apache-2.0PDF Editors & Tools

pdfcpu

pdfcpu is an open-source CLI and Go library for merging, splitting, and securing PDFs locally, replacing desktop suites like Nitro PDF Pro in CI pipelines.

8.9kLinuxmacOSWindows1d ago

Apache-2.0PDF Editors & Tools

PDF Arranger

Merge, split, rotate, crop, and rearrange PDF pages locally with PDF Arranger, a private desktop alternative to iLovePDF.

6.0kLinuxWindows3d ago

GPL-3.0PDF Editors & Tools

PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic is an open-source desktop tool to merge, split, and rotate PDFs locally, replacing cloud services like iLovePDF without file size caps.

4.7kLinuxmacOSWindowstoday

AGPL-3.0PDF Editors & Tools

Okular

Okular is an open-source document viewer replacing proprietary PDF readers with multi-format support, local annotations, and custom memory caching.

1.6kLinuxmacOSWindows2d ago

GPL-2.0PDF Editors & Tools

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OpenIDE

Free IDE for Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript and Python. Built on IntelliJ Community, fully open source, 300+ plugins.

openide.ru

PDF Tricks

PDF Tricks is a lightweight Linux utility for merging, splitting, and compressing PDFs locally with Ghostscript, avoiding cloud uploads and usage quotas.

129Linux3mo ago

GPL-3.0PDF Editors & Tools