Open Source Linux PDF Editors
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View 10 business solutionsBrowse free open source PDF Editors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source PDF Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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PDF Arranger
Small python-gtk application, to merge or split PDFs
PDF Arranger 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 front end for pikepdf. PDF Arranger is a fork of Konstantinos Poulios’s PDF Shuffler (see Savannah or Sourceforge). It’s a humble attempt to make the project a bit more active. -
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converseen
A batch image converter and resizer
Converseen is a free cross-platform batch image processor for Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and other operating systems. It allows you to convert, resize, rotate, and flip an infinite number of images with a single mouse click. Moreover, Converseen can convert an entire PDF document into a set of images with your preferred characteristics. You can choose from over 100+ formats, set the size, resolution, and the filename. Thanks to ImageMagick, the powerful image manipulation library, Converseen can handle more than 100 image formats, including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, and many others. Converseen is designed to be user-friendly, fast, practical, and best of all, it’s available for free! -
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PDFsam
PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files
PDFsam Basic is our free and open-source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files. PDFsam Visual is a powerful tool to visually compose PDF files, reorder pages, delete pages, split, merge, rotate, encrypt, decrypt, extract text, convert to grayscale, crop PDF files. PDFsam Basic is written using JavaFX. Since version 4 it is released as a self-contained application and bundles a jlinked JDK while version 3 requires a Java Runtime Environment 8 with JavaFx installed in order to run. -
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TeXworks
A simple interface for working with TeX documents
TeXworks is a free and simple working environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX) documents. Inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, it makes entry into the TeX world easier for those using desktop operating systems other than OS X. It provides an integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms particularly GNU/Linux and Windows and features a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users. -
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AviTab
X-Plane plugin that displays a tablet to aid VR usage
AviTab is a plugin for the X-Plane flight simulator. It displays a tablet-like computer with a few apps in the cockpit. It is mainly used for flying in virtual reality. When flying in a simulator, one often needs to look up details in PDF charts, plane manuals, checklists or other documents. Using a PDF reader breaks the immersion because the virtual aviator either has to take off of their HMD or use other tools that can move windows into VR. AviTab tries to solve this problem by offering a PDF reader inside a native plugin for X-Plane. Using a plugin also opens possibilities for more apps inside the tablet, for example, to display information about the plane status or aid in navigation. When hovering over the edges of the tablet from a short distance, X-Plane will display green bars around the tablet. The upper bar can be used to grab the window and move it around inside the cockpit. -
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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. -
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pdf2htmlEX
Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format
pdf2htmlEX renders PDF files in HTML, utilizing modern Web technologies. It aims to provide an accurate rendering, while being optimized for Web display. Text, fonts and formats are natively preserved in HTML. Mathematical formulas, figures and images are also supported. pdf2htmlEX is also a publishing tool: almost 50 options make it flexible for many different use cases: PDF preview, book/magazine publishing, personal resume. pdf2htmlEX is optimized for modern web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox & Google Chrome. This is an era of Web. HTML, together with CSS and JavaScript, provides the flexibility allowing you to embed documents with beautiful themes, consistent bahivours and useful features. User experience will also be significantly improved, documents will be plugin-free and interactive, users can read while downloading. -
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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. -
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PDFPatcher
A versatile toolkit for PDF manipulation
PDFPatcher (aka “PDF补丁丁”) is a versatile toolkit for PDF manipulation—editing document metadata, bookmarks, page layout, content restrictions, rotation, compression, merging/splitting, image extraction, and more, all within an intuitive interface. Merge/split PDFs or images, preserve or add bookmarks, and set page dimensions. Batch style/color/target changes, regex/XPath search/replace, mid‑page positioning. Modify PDF metadata, page numbers, links, initial view mode, and remove open actions. -
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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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STAR
Travel light, run fast, just works! Devuan powered!
This is the home of Star live distro powered by Devuan stable linux (Non-Systemd). Images to choose from: 64 bit - Xfce (minimal), Fluxbox, Openbox, Jwm, i3, Cli 32bit - Jwm, Cli There is a small selection of applications, including: web browser, text editor, image viewer, pdf viewer, file manager, terminal, media player. If you like to customize your desktop, then this is the distro you you! This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. -
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Stirling-PDF
Web application that allows you to perform operations on PDF files
Stirling PDF is a powerful, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool offering a wide range of editing, conversion, and utility features. It allows users to merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, and perform other operations on PDF files directly from a browser without uploading data to third-party servers. The tool is privacy-conscious, self-hostable via Docker, and built with modularity in mind to allow future expansion and integration. -
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MinerU
A high-quality tool for convert PDF to Markdown and JSON
MinerU is an open-source, high-quality document extraction toolkit focused on converting PDFs (and other document formats) into structured Markdown and JSON. It leverages OCR and layout analysis to preserve semantic structure and metadata, ideal for research and data science workflows. -
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PDF Editor
Offline PDF editor. Add images, signatures, text to PDF in the browser
Offline PDF editor. Add images, signatures, text to PDF in your browser. -
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PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files on any platform
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface. -
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CROWZ
Devuan GNU+Linux 5.0.1 Daedalus based distribution (systemd-free)
Welcome to CROWZ, formerly Zephyr! Featuring 64-bit Devuan base isos. / Calamares Installer CROWZ is an operating system based on Devuan 5.0.1 Daedalus release. Consisting of a minimal compilation of applications and tools. Overall the ethos of CROWZ is simplicity. Web browser, file manager, image viewer, torrent client, terminal emulator, pdf viewer, audio and video player, text editor, and a few other essential applications. The crowz-welcome screen compliments the install with an easy to use terminal program to update and install additional applications. Fluxbox, JWM, and Openbox are fully customizable Wms, light on resources, fast, stable, each with a full-featured desktop experience. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See GNU General Public License for more details Thanks to myworldlinux video presentation -
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Super-PDF-Editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based PDF editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based and lighting fast PDF reader, editor and batch processor. PDF editing with 60+ features rich tools and function like OCR pdf and images and produce output like searchable PDF, Text, Hocr, Box, Unlv. Also, improve image enhancement before OCR operation for better OCR performance. pdf Imposition, etc. Super PDF Editor is best for bulk pdf processing, especially for the printing industry. Easy pdf imposition, booklet, n ups pages, and more. OCR performs in pdf files, scanned pdf files and any pdf files. OCR performs in image files, and supports multiple image formats. Auto and manual image enhancement for better OCR accuracy and quality. Supports 165+ languages with three languages data set. Use Multiple Languages at once. International Languages: 127 Languages, High, Medium, and Fast Quality. Scanned Images (jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp) Multi-Page and TIFF and GIF, Scanned PDFs. -
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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.
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workerPdf
WorkerPDF is GUI for GhostScript created for PDF conversion
WorkerPDF uses GhostScript https://www.ghostscript.com/. WorkerPDF created for PDF conversion. Program features: - Compress pdf documents; - Combine pdf; - Moving pdf pages; - Rotating pdf pages; - Creating pdf from images; - Convert pdf to images. - Encrypt, decrypt pdf WorkerPDF использует GhostScript https://www.ghostscript.com/. WorkerPDF создан для преобразования PDF. Возможности программы: - Сжатие pdf документов; - Объединение pdf; - Перестановка страниц pdf; - Поворот страниц pdf; - Создание pdf из изображений; - Преобразование pdf в изображения. - Шифрование, дешифрование pdf -
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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. -
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Pdf Split and Merge with Bookmark Import
PDF merging with bookmarks and pagination
PDF Split and Merge tool is implemented using the PdfSharp library and is either GUI or command driven.It is useful for automated document creation.It allows bookmarks from the input pdfs to be imported and flexibly embedded in the destination document. PDF pages can be numbered and annotated with a footer label. -
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borb
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files
borb is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in python. borb is a pure python library to read, write, and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like data structure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives (numbers, string, booleans, etc) This is currently a one-man project, so the focus will always be to support those use-cases that are more common in favor of those that are rare. -
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TTR PDF To JPG is an application that can Convert PDF File to JPG,PNG,GIF,BMP,TIF images.
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Stirling-PDF
#1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to work on PDFs
This is a robust, locally hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker. It enables you to carry out various operations on PDF files, including splitting, merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of features, addressing all your PDF requirements. Stirling PDF does not initiate any outbound calls for record-keeping or tracking purposes. All files and PDFs exist either exclusively on the client side, reside in server memory only during task execution, or temporarily reside in a file solely for the execution of the task. Any file downloaded by the user will have been deleted from the server by that point.
