Open-Source PDF Software
PDF software offers comprehensive features for editing and managing PDF documents.
Core features include creating, editing, and converting PDFs.
Typical users include offices, graphic designers, and lawyers who work extensively with PDF documents.
Related Categories
Document management systems complement the editing of individual PDFs with filing, search, and versioning. For signing processes with multiple parties and evidence logs, there is specialized software for electronic signatures.
Features
Below is an overview of common features of PDF tool suites.
Create and merge PDFs
Edit PDFs (text, images, pages)
Convert to Office formats and images
Page management (rotate, split, reorder)
Comments, highlights, and annotations
Form fields and form filling
Password protection and permission management
Digital signatures
Products
Below is an overview of popular open-source software in the category «Open-Source PDF Software». The list is sorted alphabetically.
Well-known proprietary examples include Acrobat Studio, Foxit PDF Editor and Smallpdf.
BentoPDF
BentoPDF offers tools to merge, split, compress, and edit PDFs. Files are processed locally in the browser.
Signature PDF
Signature PDF is an open-source web app for signing, compressing, and editing PDFs. You can run it on your own server.
- E-Signatures
Stirling-PDF
Stirling-PDF edits, merges, splits, and converts PDFs. OCR, compression, and automated workflows complement the tools.