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    Skim

    Skim

    A PDF Reader and Note-taker for OS X

    Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires OS X 10.10 or higher.
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    QPDF

    QPDF

    PDF transformation/manipulation program + library

    QPDF is a C++ library and set of programs that inspect and manipulate the structure of PDF files. It can encrypt and linearize files, expose the internals of a PDF file, and do many other operations useful to end users and PDF developers.
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    Downloads: 1,321 This Week
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    Pandoc

    Pandoc

    The universal markup converter

    Pandoc is a universal document converter able to convert files from a multitude of markup formats into another. With Pandoc, you have a swiss-army knife of a converter, able to convert practically any markup format into any other. Pandoc contains a Haskell library for conversions as well as a command-line tool that uses this library. It can convert to and from just about anything-- lightweight markup formats, HTML formats, documentation formats, ebooks, TeX formats, word processor formats and so much more. It understands several useful markdown syntax extensions, such as document metadata, footnotes, tables, and more. If you want strict markdown compatibility however, these extensions can be turned off. Pandoc is no doubt powerful and customizable, but it is important to note that its intermediate representation of a document is less expressive than many of the formats, so it may not produce perfect conversions every time.
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    NAPS2 - Not Another PDF Scanner

    NAPS2 - Not Another PDF Scanner

    Scan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible.

    Visit NAPS2's home page at www.naps2.com. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. NAPS2 is currently available in over 40 different languages. Want to see NAPS2 in your preferred language? Help translate! See the wiki for more details.
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    Downloads: 578 This Week
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    Dompdf

    Dompdf

    HTML to PDF converter for PHP

    dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer, it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro. (Some important changes have been made to the R&OS class, however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class, though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF libraries.
    Downloads: 127 This Week
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    PDF.js

    PDF.js

    A PDF Reader in JavaScript

    PDF.js is a web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering Portable Document Formats (PDFs). Open source and built with HTML5, this PDF viewer is supported by a great community and Mozilla Labs. PDF.js can be used on both modern and older browsers, and is built into version 19+ of Firefox.
    Downloads: 109 This Week
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    pdfcrack is a command line, password recovery tool for PDF-files.
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    Downloads: 484 This Week
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    mPDF

    mPDF

    PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML

    mPDF is a PHP library that generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. The original author, Ian Back, wrote mPDF to output PDF files ‘on-the-fly’ from his website, handling different languages. It is slower than the original scripts e.g. HTML2FPDF and produces larger files when using Unicode fonts, but support for CSS styles etc. and has been much enhanced. Supports almost all languages including RTL (Arabic and Hebrew), and CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). Nested block-level elements (e.g. P, DIV) including margins, borders, padding, line height, background colors, etc. Right-to-left languages are supported, with automatic detection of RTL characters within a document. Transposes tables, lists, text justification, and table cell alignment, as well as a full-text reversal for RTL characters. Automatically detects non-RTL characters and displays these in the original order.
    Downloads: 88 This Week
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    wkhtmltopdf

    wkhtmltopdf

    Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

    wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service. There is also a C library, if you're into that kind of thing. The file pdf.h contains a fairly high level and stable pure c binding to wkhtmltopdf. These binding are well documented and do not depend on QT. Using this is the recommended way of interfacing with the PDF portion of libwkhtmltox. The rest of the headers directly exposes the C++ QT dependent class used internally by wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage. wkhtmltopdf is able to put several objects into the output file, an object is either a single webpage, a cover webpage or a table of contents. The objects are put into the output document in the order they are specified on the command line, options can be specified on a per object basis or in the global options area.
    Downloads: 88 This Week
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    TCPDF - PHP class for PDF

    TCPDF - PHP class for PDF

    PHP class for PDF

    TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF Supports UTF-8, Unicode, RTL languages, XHTML, Javascript, digital signatures, barcodes and much more. IMPORTANT: This version will be soon marked as deprecated and replaced by a new version currently under development: https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf
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    Downloads: 354 This Week
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    pstoedit

    pstoedit

    converts PostScript or PDF files to other vector graphics formats

    pstoedit is a tool converting PostScript and PDF files into various other formats suported by different drawing editors. As a prerequesite it needs GhostScript to be installed (binary installation is sufficient).
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    Downloads: 453 This Week
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    OCRmyPDF

    OCRmyPDF

    OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files

    OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. PDF is the best format for storing and exchanging scanned documents. Unfortunately, PDFs can be difficult to modify. OCRmyPDF makes it easy to apply image processing and OCR (recognized, searchable text) to existing PDFs.
    Downloads: 62 This Week
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    PdfBooklet
    PdfBooklet is a Python Gtk application which allows to make books or booklets from existing pdf files. It can also adjust margins, rotate, scale, merge files or extract pages.
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    Downloads: 332 This Week
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    PDF4QT

    PDF4QT

    Open source PDF editor

    PDF4QT is open source PDF editor based on Qt framework. It contains a C++ library, applications for viewing/editing PDF documents, and a command line tool. PDF4QT is an open-source PDF editor for Windows/Linux. It is a modern solution for viewing/editing/rendering PDF documents, for users and developers alike. For developers, there is a C++ library and a command line tool for use in scripts. For users, there are four applications offering many features. The project is hosted on Github and uses the license LGPLv3. The applications are primarily used by target users to view, edit, manipulate or compare PDF documents. Users can preview these applications in the screenshots section of this webpage. Basic browsing and lots of other functionalities, such as encryption, reading a document, verification of digital signatures, editing of annotations, searching for text using regular expressions, drawing pages into an image, and much more. Several plug-ins are available.
    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    OpenPDF

    OpenPDF

    open source Java library for creating and editing PDF files

    OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is the LGPL/MPL open source successor of iText, and is based on a fork, of a fork, of iText 4 svn tag.
    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    SumatraPDF Reader

    SumatraPDF Reader

    Multi-format (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CHM, XPS, DjVu) reader for Windows

    Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority. Portable version is a single executable, can be run from USB drive and doesn't write to registry. For best results use the latest release available as that's what I use and test with. If things don't compile, first make sure you're using the latest version of Visual Studio. To compile you need Visual Studio 2019 16.6 or later. Free Community edition works.
    Downloads: 42 This Week
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    Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript).
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    Downloads: 259 This Week
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    JPdfBookmarks
    This software allows you to create and edit bookmarks on existing pdf files.
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    Downloads: 149 This Week
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    PDFCreator

    PDFCreator

    Converts every printable document to PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF and more

    PDFCreator creates professional PDFs with just a few clicks and it's free. PDFCreator comes with many professional features to merge documents, send emails, and more. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, Excel, or any other Windows application. A PDF takes less storage space, and is easier to send with email. Make PDF creator part of your the software suite you have installed on your computer for easy PDF creation. PDFCreator also comes with a COM programming interface that allows to integrate PDFCreator in other applications and a server mode to share PDFCreator on a network.
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    Downloads: 735 This Week
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    Tabula

    Tabula

    Extract data in CSV format from PDFs

    If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux. Tabula was created by journalists for journalists and anyone else working with data locked away in PDFs. Tabula will always be free and open source.
    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    pdfcpu

    pdfcpu

    A PDF processor written in Go

    pdfcpu is a PDF processing library written in Go supporting encryption. It provides both an API and a CLI. Supported are all versions up to PDF 1.7 (ISO-32000). This is an effort to build a comprehensive PDF processing library from the ground up written in Go. Over time pdfcpu aims to support the standard range of PDF processing features and also any interesting use cases that may present themselves along the way. The main focus lies on strong support for batch processing and scripting via a rich command line. At the same time pdfcpu wants to make it easy to integrate PDF processing into your Go-based backend system by providing a robust command set. Always make sure your work is based on the latest commit! pdfcpu is still Alpha - bugfixes are committed on the fly and will be mentioned in the next release notes.
    Downloads: 26 This Week
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    jsPDF

    jsPDF

    HTML5 client solution for generating PDFs

    The leading HTML5 client solution for generating PDFs. Perfect for event tickets, reports, certificates, you name it! PDFs are ubiquitous across the web, with virtually every enterprise relying on them to share documents. We created jsPDF to solve a major problem with how pdf files were being generated. We decided to make it open-source to allow a community of developers to expand on it.
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    PDFTK Builder Enhanced

    Enhanced version of the PDFTK Builder GUI for PDF Toolkit on Windows

    Free and open source GUI application for manipulating PDF files using the Windows version of PDF Toolkit (PDFtk) - split, merge, stamp, number pages, rotate, metadata, bookmarks, attachments, etc. This project is a fork of PDFTK Builder by Angus Johnson that enhances the user interface, adds functions, and enables use of later versions of PDFtk. OS: Windows. Author: David King. License: GPLv3.
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    Downloads: 172 This Week
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    PDF-Shuffler
    PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.
    Downloads: 64 This Week
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    Vanilla.PDF

    Vanilla.PDF

    Cross-platform SDK for creating and modifying PDF documents

    Vanilla.PDF is a modern, high-performance, open-source C++17 SDK designed for creating, editing, signing, and analyzing PDF documents across multiple platforms. It requires no external runtime dependencies, making it lightweight and ideal for embedding into desktop applications, servers, or automation pipelines. The SDK offers full cross-platform support including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, with builds available for major compilers and architectures. Vanilla.PDF supports advanced PDF features such as adding CMS (PKCS#7) digital signatures, modifying content streams and metadata, and working with encryption and permissions based on standard PDF security models. It includes tools for parsing PDF internals like cross-reference tables and objects, providing fine-grained document analysis capabilities. The project is unit-tested with continuous integration pipelines, supporting sanitizers for enhanced code quality and stability.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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