PDFedit Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to PDFedit for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is PDFsam, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to PDFedit and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to PDFedit are Master PDF Editor, ScanTailor Advanced, Qoppa PDF Studio and PDF4QT.

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  1. PDFsam icon
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    Free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files.

    144 PDFsam alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Cant clone pages, modify text or anything inside a page

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    • PDFsam is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to PDFedit.

    • PDFsam is the most popular Open Source alternative to PDFedit.

    • PDFsam is Freemium and Open SourcePDFedit is Free and Open Source
    • PDFsam is LightweightPDFedit is not according to our users
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    Master PDF Editor is complete solution for editing PDF and XPS files. You can insert, edit, remove, copy, add images or graphics. Export, import, remove and change page layouts. Also Master PDF Editor provides full functionality for changing PDF information, including author...

    131 Master PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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    Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file.

    15 ScanTailor Advanced alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PDF4QT icon
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    Open-source PDF viewer and editor using Qt framework, featuring hardware-accelerated rendering, encryption, multithreading, text-to-speech, annotation tools, form filling, high-res monitor support, document compression, audio book conversion, and signature validation.

    97 PDF4QT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. PDF-Shuffler icon
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    Merge, split, rotate, crop and rearrange pdf documents and their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

    89 PDF-Shuffler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. gscan2pdf icon
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    gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an...

    29 gscan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. PdfMod icon
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    PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents.

    85 PdfMod alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. pdfslicer icon
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    This is a simple application for extracting, rotating and reordering pages of a PDF document, with undo/redo support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    The PDF Import Extension allows you to import and modify PDF documents. Best results with 100% layout accuracy can be achieved with the "PDF/ODF hybrid file" format, which this extension also enables.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Apache OpenOffice Draw
     
  10. PDF Vole icon
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    PDF Vole is a small tool to debug and analyze PDF files. You can open a PDF file and analyze its internal structure and content. I started this project to build a tool as I had to debug and analyze PDF files that did not render correctly or were broken in some way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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