Adobe Reader Alternatives and Similar Software

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Foxit Reader

Free by Foxit Software |
iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Metro, Android + Tablet, Linux
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Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight PDF document viewer for Windows. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Notable features include: Annotation tool: draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save...

Office & Productivity portable Available also as portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/foxit_reader_portable, multi-language, pdf-viewer
+8 more tabbed-interface, pdf-reader, pdf-annotation, convert-to-pdf, scan-to-pdf, sign-pdf, pdf-printer, tablet-support
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Sumatra PDF

Open Source by Krzysztof Kowalczyk |
Windows

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What is Sumatra PDF? Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF/DjVu/EPUB/XPS/CHM/CBR/CBZ/MOBI viewer for Windows. Why another PDF reader? Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher...

News & Books, Office & Productivity portable, pdf, ebook, pdf-reader, epub, cbr, cbz, djvu
+6 more djvu-viewer, acrobat, drm, xps, acrobat-reader, mobi
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PDF-XChange Viewer

Free* by Tracker Software Products Ltd. |
Windows

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PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard...

Office & Productivity portable http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads, pdf-converter, pdf-editor, pdf-reader
+2 more pdf-annotation, pdf-ocr
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Evince

Open Source by The GNOME Project |
Windows, Linux

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Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, cbr, cbz, etc. The goal of Evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on...

Office & Productivity pdf, pdf-viewer, pdf-reader, djvu, pdf-annotation
+5 more tiff, postscript, ps-viewer, tiff-viewer, dvi
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Okular

Open Source by The Okular Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4 with support for advanced document features, such as annotations, forms, and embedded files. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of...

News & Books, Office & Productivity pdf, pdf-viewer, pdf-reader, kde, document-viewer
+11 more epub, chm, djvu, postscript, tiff, epub-reader, djvu-viewer, xps, odf, ps-viewer, tiff-viewer
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Nitro Reader

Free by Nitro PDF Software |
Windows

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Nitro Reader offers features and functionality far beyond typical PDF readers, and makes working with PDF easier than ever before. Create PDF files, comment and review, save PDF forms, extract text and...

Office & Productivity pdf-reader, create-pdf, pdf-printer, extract-text
+3 more sign-pdf, extract-images-from-pdf, pdf-forms
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Preview

Free by Apple |
Mac

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Preview is a simple and elegant application by Apple for viewing and working with images and PDF documents. With a single click, Preview takes your PDF document full screen for an ideal reading or viewing...

Office & Productivity, Photos & Graphics pdf, image-viewer, pdf-viewer
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Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js)

Open Source by Mozilla Labs |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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PDF Viewer (aka pdf.js) is a new revolutionary extension using web standard technologies that allows you to display within Firefox almost all PDF files found on the web without a plugin.

Office & Productivity, Web Browsers plugin / add-on Firefox built-in (disabled by default), html5, pdf-viewer, firefox-extension
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STDU Viewer

Free* by STDU |
Windows

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Are you tired from many viewers one for each document? Do you want to have, one program for all your technical documentations, scientific books and so on? Do you want to have program, which fast opens files,...

Office & Productivity portable has portable version, pdf, pdf-viewer, regular-expression, cbr, cbz
+13 more djvu, txt, fb2, djvu-viewer, xps, xps-viewer, wwf, jbig2, tiff-viewer, fb2-viewer, pdb-viewer, pdb, dcx
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Skim

Open Source |
Mac

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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.

Office & Productivity note-taking, pdf-viewer, pdf-reader, pdf-annotation
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Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in

Free by Google |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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In version 8, Google Chrome introduced a free PDF viewer, installed by default. While this plug-in lacks many features of the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, it is much faster and lighter, and updates with the browser...

Office & Productivity plugin / add-on Comes installed by default in Chrome 8, but can be disabled, pdf, pdf-reader
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GoodReader

Commercial by Good.iWare |
iPhone, iPad

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With GoodReader on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere. Books, movies, maps, pictures; GoodReader puts it all in a single app, right in your pocket. GoodReader lets...

News & Books, Office & Productivity pdf-viewer, ebooks, ebook-reader, pdf-reader
+6 more document-viewer, ftp-support, pdf-annotation, idisk, dropbox-sync, sugarsync
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APV

Open Source |
Android + Tablet

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Open Source PDF Viewer for Android based on MuPDF library

Office & Productivity pdf-viewer
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EBookDroid

Open Source by Andrei Komarovskikh & Alexander Kasatkin |
Android

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EBookDroid is an open source (GPL'ed) document viewer for Android based on the VuDroid code base. Supported the file in following formats: PDF DjVu XPS (OpenXPS) comics books (cbz,cbr) ...

News & Books, Office & Productivity pdf, pdf-viewer, ebooks, document-viewer, cbr, cbz
+6 more djvu, comic-viewer, comic-books, djvu-viewer, xps, xps-viewer
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SlimPDF Reader

Free by Investintech.com Inc. |
Windows

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SlimPDF Reader is a high quality PDF viewer that is only 1.5MB in size. Features and benefits: - Eliminate bloatware and help your computer run faster; - View any PDF File just like Adobe Reader; - 100%...

Office & Productivity pdf-viewer, pdf-reader
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MuPDF

Open Source by Artifex Software, Inc. |
iPhone, iPad, Windows, Linux

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MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer. The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. It renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the...

Office & Productivity portable, pdf-viewer, xps, xps-viewer
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Google Docs Viewer

Free by Google |
Online

Not an alternative?

With Google Docs Viewer, you can quickly view many file types online, including PDFs, Microsoft Office files, and many image file types.

File Management, Office & Productivity pdf-viewer, pdf-reader, document-viewer, powerpoint
+2 more archive-extractor, xml-viewer
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Martview

Free by MartView |
Mac, iPad, Windows

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Martview is a desktop/laptop/touch-screen friendly FREE eBook/PDF reader that is compatible with PDF and MART file. Designed with new concept of reading ebook on the PC, Martview tries very hard to let you...

News & Books ebook-reader, reading, magazines, ebook-library
+2 more flipping-book, flipbook
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ePDFView

Open Source |
Linux

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A simple PDF document viewer, in the lines of Evince but without using the Gnome libraries. ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries.

Office & Productivity pdf, pdf-viewer, gtk, poppler
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Mantano

Free* by MANTANO SAS |
Android

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Fast and feature-packed ebook reader to get the most of your readings everywhere User friendly advanced ebook reader for PDF and EPUB for leisure readers, students and...

News & Books, Office & Productivity pdf-viewer, ebook-reader, ebook-library