Compare the Top PDF Software as of October 2026 - Page 9

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    PDF Saver

    PDF Saver

    Red Software

    Upload your PDF document (up to 25 MB) below. Once uploaded, a unique link will be generated which you can share with others to view, edit, and fill out your PDF form. Configure which tools are available to your users. Receive submissions of your form. And even email notifications of new submissions. All, free of charge! No gotchas!
    Starting Price: $0
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    PDF7

    PDF7

    PDF7

    ​PDF7 is an online platform offering a comprehensive suite of free, user-friendly PDF tools designed to streamline document management tasks. Users can merge multiple PDFs into a single file, rotate pages, remove specific pages, and organize documents effortlessly. It also provides features to compress PDFs without compromising quality, convert images (such as HEIC, JPG, PNG) and documents (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to and from PDF format, and extract or repair PDF files. Additional functionalities include adding or removing passwords for document security and transforming PDFs to grayscale. With a commitment to privacy, PDF7 ensures that no files are stored on their servers during processing.
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    FixMyPDF

    FixMyPDF

    FixMyPDF

    FixMyPDF is a privacy-first, free online PDF toolkit offering 70+ tools to convert, organize, secure, optimize, and edit PDF files. All processing is 100% browser-based—no file uploads, no registration required, and no data tracking. Features include compressing PDFs, converting images (JPG, PNG, SVG, etc.) to PDF and vice versa, editing metadata, adding or removing password protection, splitting & merging, text extraction, watermarking, annotation editing, and much more. Used by over 10,000 users and processing 100,000+ files with a 4.9★ rating.
    Starting Price: $0
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    PyMuPDF

    PyMuPDF

    Artifex

    PyMuPDF is a high-performance, Python-centric library for reading, extracting, and manipulating PDFs with ease and precision. It enables developers to access text, images, fonts, annotations, metadata, and structural layout of PDF documents, and to perform tasks such as extracting content, editing objects, rendering pages, searching text, modifying page content, and manipulating PDF components like links and annotations. PyMuPDF also supports advanced operations like splitting, merging, inserting, or deleting pages; drawing and filling shapes; handling color spaces; and converting between formats. The library is lightweight but robust, optimized for speed and low memory overhead. On top of the base PyMuPDF, PyMuPDF Pro adds support for reading and writing Microsoft Office-format documents and enhanced functionality for integrating Large Language Model (LLM) pipelines and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
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    Ghostscript
    Ghostscript is a powerful PostScript and PDF interpreter developed by Artifex, offering a rendering engine and comprehensive graphics library for high-quality document processing. It handles interpreting, processing, and rendering PostScript files and PDFs, supports complex page description language features, and includes utilities for converting, rasterizing, and manipulating documents. Ghostscript also has .NET bindings (Ghostscript.NET) so it can be integrated into .NET applications, and there’s an enterprise version (Ghostscript Enterprise) that extends capabilities to reading and processing common office documents like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The product is designed for precision rendering, color space management, and reliable output, making it suitable for both programmatic document workflows and production environments.
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    Factify

    Factify

    Factify

    Factify is a document technology platform designed to transform traditional digital files into intelligent, governed records built for the age of artificial intelligence. Instead of treating documents as static files such as PDFs, it introduces a “Document-as-Infrastructure” model in which each document becomes an active, managed asset containing built-in identity, permissions, version history, and automation capabilities. These intelligent documents remain controlled and traceable wherever they are shared, allowing organizations to track who accessed them, manage authorization, and maintain a single authoritative version even after distribution. Unlike conventional files that lose governance once sent outside an organization, Factify documents retain embedded access control and contextual information that can be updated or restricted in real time.
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    SoraFiles Desktop
    SoraFiles Desktop by Sora Labs is a paid native PDF and image toolkit for Windows, macOS and Linux, separate from the free SoraFiles Web product. Supported actions include PDF compression, merging and splitting, image conversion and metadata cleanup. File-manager integration and features vary by platform and tool. Supported file processing runs locally, with offline workflows after setup; setup, license activation and subscription renewals need internet. Includes a 7-day trial. Personal monthly is USD1.99 for one active device; Team monthly is USD9.99 for up to five. Subscriptions renew automatically; lifetime options are available. Format and memory limits vary. Request a basic no-cost listing only; no paid upgrade or promotion.
    Starting Price: $1.99/month, Personal
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    SoraFiles

    SoraFiles

    Sora Labs

    SoraFiles by Sora Labs is a free Web toolkit for PDF and image tasks, separate from the paid SoraFiles Desktop app. Tools include PDF compression, merging and splitting, image conversion, resizing and metadata removal. Supported workflows process files locally in the browser without sending their contents to a SoraFiles processing server. No account required and no added watermark. Format support and file-size limits vary by tool and device memory. Some tools work offline after their required resources have loaded; internet can be needed to load tools or models. This request covers only SoraFiles Web. Request a basic no-cost listing only; no paid upgrade or promotion.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Sejda PDF
    Files are safely uploaded over an encrypted connection. Files stay secure. After processing, they are permanently deleted. Images are optimized and saved with a JPEG image quality of 65%. That is perfect for most scenarios. But, if your need it you can configure a better quality for the optimized images (even if the PDF size will be larger). Files are safely uploaded over an encrypted connection. Files stay secure. After processing, they are permanently deleted.
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    jPDFProcess

    jPDFProcess

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFProcess is a Java library to create and manipulate with PDF documents that can be used to deliver customized PDF content to your users or to process incoming PDF content. The library has a simple interface to work with PDF documents and is designed to be integrated easily and seamlessly into your PDF document workflow. jPDFProcess provides the functionality found in many of our other libraries, including printing, setting permissions and security, creating and assembling documents, digital signing, working with form fields, converting to images, extracting text and more. The library can work with PDF documents from files, URLs and input streams and can save documents to files and output streams, so it can serve documents from a J2EE application directly to a client browser without any temporary files. jPDFProcess is built on top of Qoppa’s proprietary PDF technology so no external PDF Software is required.
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    jOfficeConvert

    jOfficeConvert

    Qoppa Software

    Convert Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to PDF directly from your Java applications, without user intervention and without the need for any other software. jOfficeConvert is a Java library that can read and render MS Word and Excel documents natively to convert to PDF, to convert to images, or to print the documents automatically. The library is 100% Java so it can run on any platform that supports Java, including Windows, Linux, Unix (AIX, Solaris Spark, Solaris Intel, HP-UX) and Mac OSX. The library does not use any third party software or native calls, it can be run in a server environment or integrated into a desktop application. Main Features Convert Word documents (.doc, .docx) to PDF Convert Excel documents (.xlsx) to PDF Convert Word, Excel to HTML5 (when combined with jPDFWeb) Merge multiple Word, Excel files into a single PDF document Set permissions and passwords on resulting PDF documents.
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    Bullzip

    Bullzip

    Bullzip

    A FREE PDF Printer that allows you to print to a PDF document from any Microsoft Windows application. Supports Microsoft Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe environments. PDF Studio is a fully functional viewer, merger, splitter for PDF documents. It supports viewing, searching, printing, merging, splitting, and rearranging PDF documents... and it is FREE. Install a virtual printer that creates a Microsoft Word document instead of a piece of paper. Print from your favorite Windows application directly to a .doc file and edit the content. This program can convert your existing PDF documents to Microsoft Word format. This means that you can open and edit the resulting documents in Word. Bring your database online in a moment. Create live reports and searches without programming. Supports Sage, Dynamics, Access, MSSQL, MySQL and other ODBC compliant databases.
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    PrimoPDF

    PrimoPDF

    Nitro Software

    Create PDF files with the world's most popular free PDF creator. With just one click, turn virtually any kind of file into a 100% industry-standard PDF. Convert almost any kind of file into a 100% industry-standard PDF file with one click. Tap into the full power of your document stack with just a few clicks. Nitro effortlessly converts PDFs into editable Word, Excel, PowerPoint or other Microsoft office formats – so you can spend less time sifting through old documents and more time working on new ideas. Need to convert your file back to PDF? Nitro PDF Pro makes that simple, too. Make your documents work harder for you. With Nitro you can create PDFs on any program and any device – so you can say goodbye to formatting headaches, and devote your time to creating exceptional content.
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    jPDFOptimizer

    jPDFOptimizer

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFOptimizer is a Java library to optimize and reduce the size of PDF documents. jPDFOptimizer can remove unnecessary objects in PDF documents, detect and merge duplicate images and fonts, and modify image resolution, compression and color spaces to reduce size. The library provides a powerful, yet simple API to let the calling application fine tune how to optimize documents. jPDFOptimizer is built on Qoppa Software’s extensive PDF technology and requires no third party software or drivers. The library is 100% Java and can run on any operating system for which there is a standard Java implementation, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and others. Features: -Modify image resolution, compression and color spaces -Compress images using JPEG, JPEG 2000 and JBIG2 -Compress data streams -Remove unused objects -Remove and merge duplicate images and fonts -Flexible optimization options -Linearize PDFs for fast web view -Support for latest PDF format -Support for JDK 1.6+
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    UsefulPDF

    UsefulPDF

    UsefulPDF

    UsefulPDF is a simple product with a simple goal - make it simple to work with PDFs. That’s a lot of simples, we know. While it’s not always easy to accomplish our stated mission, we pour our sweat, tears, time, and energy into making it a reality. We’ve been there and used the business software that’s bulky, unruly, and almost useless. We’ve experienced when software that barely works gets thrust on you, and you have to use it for three years because the contract is in effect. That’s the opposite of what we’re creating at UsefulPDF. The founding team comes from a software background for small businesses. You know, if it’s too hard to use then, they’ll drop it like a bad habit. Even though bad habits aren’t too easy to cut.
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    PassRec

    PassRec

    PassRec

    PassRec PDF Password Recovery is a Windows-based application that features encrypted/password-protected PDF files crack without knowing the password. With three different password recovery methods, PassRec enables users to recovery password from locked PDF documents, whatever the password lengths, character/symbol combination, and how complicated it is. But depending on the complicity of the password, the time needed to complete the recovery process varies. recovery process varies. Below are the three password attacking methods: Dictionary Attack: search for password from inbuilt or customized dictionaries. Brute-force Attack: find passwords within the ranges and lengths you set. Brute-force with Mask Attack: Attempt every possible number or letter, which may be time-consuming.
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    ReadyPDF

    ReadyPDF

    Solimar Systems

    ReadyPDF is our latest innovation for our PDF-centric workflow software platform, Chemistry™, that delivers critical resource and content optimization capability for high-volume printing and e-delivery including variable marketing and transactional workflows. ReadyPDF optimizes PDF files so they process more efficiently for e-delivery, archiving and production printing. ReadyPDF combines several PDF optimization technologies under one solution along with Solimar technology and added customizations which provide a high degree of functionality and robustness. Initial benchmarking shows ReadyPDF is not only capable of much higher throughput, but successfully processes files other solutions are simply not able to run. Use ReadyPDF for high-performance processing including scheduling and automating tasks. Unlike shareware or other solutions, ReadyPDF is intended for mission-critical applications where ease of use and reliability are of utmost importance.
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    CIB pdf brewer
    Create PDF for free, compress PDF, split and merge PDF, encrypt documents, design forms flexibly, and much more! Easily from all applications under Windows operating systems. Add form fields, text stamps, watermarks, letter heads and more to your PDF documents. Attractive and intuitive to use. No unnecessary long training periods. Just start additional applications such as CIB doXisafe or CIB fairBrief after PDF creation. Support of the document standard for persons with visual impairment. Many possibilities of customization like defining profiles for use cases or label menu text individually. A flexible interface for simple integration in your system. Create PDF, compress PDF, edit in many ways, re-sort, rotate and delete pages, merge PDF documents, PDF compression, fill out forms (with DEMO stamp) and many more! Create PDF, compress PDF, edit in many ways, re-sort, rotate and delete pages, merge PDF documents, PDF compression, fill out forms and more!
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    jPDFEditor

    jPDFEditor

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFEditor is intended for developers and integrators. For end-users, Qoppa Software offers PDF Studio, our advanced desktop PDF editor for Mac, Windows and Linux based on our same solid PDF technology. jPDFEditor can load documents from files on a local or network drive, from a URL and from Java input streams for documents that are generated runtime or come from other sources, such as a database. After editing documents, the library can save them. Features: -Display PDF files -Print PDF files -Convert text and image files (gif, png, jpg, tiff) to PDF on the fly -Fill and save interactive PDF forms -Markup PDFs (all PDF annotations and text markups supported) -Digitally sign PDF files -Content editing -Redaction -Optional OCR module -Optional Comparison module -Access jPDFProcess powerful PDF manipulation API -Text search, selection, copy -Easy navigation with thumbnail, bookmark, annotation, signature views -Advanced tools: zoom, loupe, snapshot, pan and zoom
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    Free PDF Online

    Free PDF Online

    Qoppa Software

    The tools and services offered on this website are available for free, with a daily use limit. There is no account creation required and no fee incurred. Visitors can use the website to solve occasional PDF processing needs or to quickly test and evaluate the underlying PDF technology, developed by Qoppa Software. We ask that users do not upload documents containing confidential information, as this service is not secure (due to lack of login mechanism).
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    jPDFWeb

    jPDFWeb

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFWeb is a Java library to convert PDF documents to SVG / HTML5. The library can save to the local file system or to an output stream to be able to serve the document directly to a client browser when working within a J2EE server. jPDFWeb is built on top of Qoppa’s proprietary PDF technology so you do not have to install any third party software or drivers. Since it is written in Java, it allows your application to remain platform independent and run on Windows, Linux, Unix (Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX), Mac OS X and any other platform that supports the Java run-time environment. Features: -Convert PDF Documents to HTML5 / SVG -Convert Microsoft Word & Excel Documents to HTML5 (when combined with jOfficeConvert) -Convert Text -Convert Images -Convert Vector Graphics -Convert Annotations, Links and Form Field Data -Convert Digital Signature Validation Status -Export Page Thumbnails -Support for CJK fonts -Support for latest PDF format
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    jPDFPreflight

    jPDFPreflight

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFPreflight is a Java library to verify PDF compliance with different standards, including PDF/UA, PDF/A and PDF/X and to convert documents to these standards. jPDFPreflight can check compliance with the following profiles: -PDF/UA Verification -PDF/A-1b Verification -PDF/A-2b Verification -PDF/A-2u Verification -PDF/A-3b Verification -PDF/X-1a:2001 Verification -PDF/X-1a:2003 Verification -PDF/X-3:2002 Verification -PDF/X-3:2003 Verification (including ZUGFeRD) jPDFPreflight can convert existing PDF documents to make them compliant with the following profiles: -Convert from PDF to PDF/A-1b -Convert from PDF to PDF/A-2b -Convert from PDF to PDF/A-3b Features: -Verify compliance of PDF documents with several standards -Convert documents to make them PDF/A compliant -Produced detail report of all non-compliant items -Add annotations to documents to highlight non-compliant items -Works on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X (100% Java)
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    jPDFImages

    jPDFImages

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFImages is a Java library to export images from PDF files and to import images into PDF files. jPDFImages can create images from pages in a PDF document and export them as JPEG, TIFF, or PNG images. Additionally, it can return the image of any page in the document to the host Java application as a BufferedImage for further processing or to save in different formats. jPDFImages can also create documents or add pages to existing documents by importing TIFF, JPEG and PNG images. After creating or modifying a document, the library can save to the local file system or to an output stream to be able to serve the document directly to a client browser when working within a J2EE server. Features: -Export PDF document pages as JPEG, TIFF or PNG images. -Import images into new or existing PDFs as new pages. -Support for PDF 2.0 (latest PDF format). -Save to the file system or to Java output streams. -Works on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X (100% Java).
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    jPDFPrint

    jPDFPrint

    Qoppa Software

    Print Acrobat PDF documents directly from your Java application or web application, with or without user intervention. jPDFPrint is a Java library that can load and print PDF documents. Simply call the library to send documents to the printer. jPDFPrint is built on top of Qoppa’s proprietary PDF technology so you do not have to install any third party software or drivers. Since it is written in Java, it allows your application to remain platform independent and run on Windows, Linux, Unix (Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX), Mac OS X and any other platform that supports the Java runtime environment. Features: -Print any PDF documents -Print with or without user intervention (silent print) -Print documents from files, URLs or Java input streams -Support for latest PDF format -Flexible printing options -Runs on Java 6 and above -Works on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X (100% Java) -No third party software or drivers necessary
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    VectorViewer

    VectorViewer

    VectorViewer

    VectorViewer's smart PDF Engine gives you the ability to convert any standard document type such as word, ppt, jpg, png, pdf etc to a PDF Form. Just follow the simple steps below to unlock this powerful feature Signup - Once you signup you will get access to the VectorViewer dashboard. Create New Form - Go to Forms Designer and click on create New Form. Here you can choose to upload your favorite document of any format and upload it to VectorViewer. VectorViewer now internally converts the format to PDF and creates a PDF Form out of it for you to use in your application. Open Forms Editor - Select the form you want to edit and choose to open it in Forms Editor. Add/Edit Form Fields - Drag and Drop form fields from the editor to convert your normal document into a pdf form that can be eventually sent to end users to collect data and signatures.
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    PDFTool

    PDFTool

    Mauracher Simon e.U.

    PDFTool is a privacy-first online PDF Tool. Merge PDFs, split PDF files and detect text in scanned PDF files with ease, without an account and without ad-clustered websites. As all processing happens directly in the browser, you can even go offline after opening the required tool page. This ensures that nobody can see your precious PDF documents.
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    Cometdocs

    Cometdocs

    Cometdocs

    Convert your PDF files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Convert various formats to PDF. Store & share your documents for free. Cometdocs prides itself on providing the best document conversion in the business. Cometdocs is a highly-regarded, free, online document management system that has served over 3 million customer and counting. It began as an online file conversion service in 2009, but now offers many more free services, including document sharing, transfers and storage. Cometdocs aims to provide a complete online solution for all your document management needs. Everything is web-based and completely secure. Privacy is guaranteed. Your personal data, including files, emails and everything else is never shared with anyone. And best of all for users, Cometdocs is available free of charge.
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    CraftMyPDF

    CraftMyPDF

    CraftMyPDF

    CraftMyPDF allows you to generate pixel-perfect PDF documents from pre-defined templates and JSON data. CraftMyPDF's advanced drag & drop editor lets you design PDF templates within minutes in any browser. Our PDF generation API supports Zapier, Integromat & REST API integration. CraftMyPDF has high-quality fonts you can utilize, made even more powerful by our font selector that allows you to instantly view, select, and use hundreds of fonts for your reports or PDFs.
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    HiPDF

    HiPDF

    Wondershare

    Wondershare HiPDF is an AI-powered online PDF solution that offers a wide range of features such as chatting with PDF, AI reading, editing, converting, and managing PDF documents. With its user-friendly interface and free plan, HiPDF allows users to easily summarize, explain, rewrite, merge, split, compress, convert, rotate, unlock, and protect PDF files with just a few clicks. As a member of the PDF Association and having received internationally recognized certifications such as ISO 27001 and SSI SECURE, HiPDF ensures both simplicity and security in editing PDFs, having processed millions of files cumulatively.
    Starting Price: $5.99 per user, per month
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    CoolNew PDF

    CoolNew PDF

    CoolNew Software

    CoolNew PDF offers all-in-one experience to awesomize your PDF experience. All the tools you’ll need to be more productive and work smarter with documents.21 tools to convert, compress, and edit PDFs . Conversion features include CAD, office, image, texted and scanned copy conversions. Editing features include text, image, eraser, page number, size, watermark, paragraph and more. Users can combine or split PDFS, extract contents and optimize pdfs. merge and compress PDF. Reading and annotation features included. It edits, annotates, converts and combines file by one click, makes your tasks finish faster. CoolNew PDF offers you a familiar experience for editing PDF, just like you did it in Office.
    Starting Price: $6.49