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View 48 business solutionsBrowse free open source PDF software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source PDF software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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BentoPDF
A Privacy First PDF Toolkit
BentoPDF is a self-hosted, open-source PDF toolkit that provides a suite of local PDF manipulation features for users who want full control over their documents without relying on cloud PDF services. It offers functionality to merge, split, compress, rotate, and convert PDFs through an easy-to-deploy container or local installation, making it ideal for individuals and teams that handle large volumes of PDF files regularly. Because it runs entirely on your own system or server, BentoPDF helps ensure that sensitive documents never leave your environment — a critical consideration for privacy-conscious users or organizations with strict data policies. Its design aims to balance robust feature coverage with a simple setup process, typically involving a Docker image so you can start using the toolkit with minimal configuration. BentoPDF also supports automation via command line parameters or API calls, so it can be integrated into batch workflows or document pipelines. -
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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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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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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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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. -
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GenOffice
An AI-native office suite for macOS and Windows
GenOffice is an AI-native desktop office suite for macOS and Windows built as five Electron applications sharing a common engine layer. It provides dedicated editors for Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs, plus a shell that hosts the suite. AI editing is integrated directly into document state instead of being limited to a separate chatbot. Documents support block-level edits and diffs, while sheets, slides, and PDFs expose their state to a tool-calling agent. The suite uses specialized engines for DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and PDF parsing, rendering, editing, and export. Its round-trip design applies narrow patches so untouched portions of original files remain intact. Shared packages provide agent logic, model streaming, search, internationalization, project storage, and interface components. -
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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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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. -
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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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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. -
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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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TCPDF (DEPRECATED → use tc-lib-pdf)
PHP class for PDF
TCPDF (DEPRECATED → use https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf) -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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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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. -
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This software allows you to create and edit bookmarks on existing pdf files.
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PDFCraft
PDFCraft is a free, privacy-focused PDF toolkit
PDFCraft is an extensible toolkit for creating, editing, and transforming PDF documents with both a graphical interface and a scripting API, making it useful for users ranging from casual editors to automated document processors. At its core, the project provides a clean, modern UI where you can rearrange pages, annotate text, insert images, fill forms, and export to multiple formats, all without needing a heavyweight commercial PDF suite. But beyond manual editing, it also offers a programmable layer so developers can write scripts to batch process documents, generate templated reports, or extract structured data from PDFs for integration in workflows. The design emphasizes quality and compatibility: output PDFs render accurately across readers, preserve metadata, and support interactive elements like hyperlinks and form fields. -
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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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PoDoFo
A PDF parsing, modification and creation library.
The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library. It can parse and modify existing PDF files and create new ones from scratch. It also includes several tools to work with PDF files. It features an unique approach which provides access to PDF documents via an object tree. Therefore, PDFs can be created and or manipulated using a simple tree structure. Development of PoDoFo has been moved to GitHub: https://github.com/podofo/podofo Please raise new issues in the GitHub project. -
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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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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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Unredact
A simple tool for reading in poorly redacted documents
Unredact is a specialized tool that attempts to reconstruct redacted or obscured text in images, PDFs, or screenshots using a combination of image processing and generative AI inference to suggest plausible completions of blurred, black-boxed, or jumbled content. Unlike traditional optical character recognition (OCR), which only reads visible text, Unredact focuses on inferring missing content where redaction has been applied by analyzing surrounding context, font characteristics, and linguistic patterns to produce candidate reconstructions. It accepts a variety of input formats, automatically identifies redacted regions, and then generates text suggestions that are presented alongside visual overlays so users can choose or refine outputs.
