Free PDF Editors

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  1. PDF Arranger icon
     103 likes

    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.

    • PDF Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    Export selection only. Export each selected page to a file. Export all pages to files.
    70 alternatives
    4.8
    Excellent26 reviews
  2. Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for producing technical drawings, general posters, and much else.

    • Diagram Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    LibreOffice - Draw screenshot 1
    97 alternatives
  3. An efficient PDF viewer and editor with advanced features like direct content editing, OCR by ABBYY, form filling, annotation, and offline access.

    • PDF Editor
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    Version 10 (2024)
    141 alternatives
    4.4
    Very Good40 reviews
  4. PDFgear icon
     55 likes

    Read, edit, convert, merge, and sign PDF files across devices, for completely free and without signing up.

    • PDF Reader
    • FreeProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    PDFgear screenshot 1
    46 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good14 reviews
  5. PDF24 Creator icon
     145 likes

    PDF24 Creator is free and feature-filled PDF creation, merging and conversion tool for Windows. Its unique feature among the free PDF printer tools is an editor, which allows to easily assemble, create and modify PDF files with Drag & Drop.

    Main window
    171 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent22 reviews
  6. PDFsam icon
     223 likes

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

    PDFsam screenshot 1
    144 alternatives
    3.5
    Good15 reviews
  7. 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...

    • PDF Editor
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Master PDF Editor screenshot 1
    132 alternatives
    3.1
    Fair17 reviews
  8. BentoPDF icon
     7 likes

    BentoPDF is a PDF Toolkit that works fully offline with no sign ups. It's fast, secure and forever free. In an era where data is a commodity, we take a different approach. All processing for BentoPDF tools happens locally in your browser.

    BentoPDF screenshot 1
    64 alternatives
  9. Sejda icon
     35 likes

    Sejda helps with your PDF tasks: edit existing text, split, merge, extract, compress, export to other formats and more.

    • PDF Editor
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Sejda screenshot 1
    134 alternatives
    4.0
    Very Good12 reviews
  10. Smallpdf icon
     58 likes

    Smallpdf is the first PDF Software you will actually like. The perfect gateway to productive, portable and cost-efficient document management solutions in your everyday life.

    • PDF Editor
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    Desktop app home
    177 alternatives
  11. PDFTK Builder icon
     64 likes

    PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to for PDFtk, making it much easier to use. It is a easy to use tool to collate (merge), split, encrypt, decrypt, stamp and rotate (only 90°, 180° or 270°) pdf documents.

    PDFTK Builder screenshot 1
    88 alternatives
    3.4
    Fair7 reviews
  12. KDAN PDF icon
     185 likes

    All-in-one tool for editing, OCR, annotating, signing, converting, and redacting PDFs, featuring AI-powered document analysis and cross-device workflow support.

    • PDF Reader
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Your All-in-One PDF Editor
    261 alternatives
  13. Drawboard PDF icon
     15 likes

    The top AEC PDF app to markup and manage drawings and documents. Ideal for replacing pen and paper, avoid printing documents again by using our intuitive feature set that makes marking up a PDF easy. Open or create a new PDF, markup using our extensive array of tools, then save...

    • PDF Reader
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    Drawboard PDF screenshot 1
    56 alternatives
  14. PDFedit icon
     24 likes

    Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + commandline interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in editor and almost anything can be scripted, it is possible to create own scripts or plugins.

    • Discontinued
    • PDF Editor
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    PDFedit screenshot 1
    91 alternatives
  15. PDF4QT icon
     8 likes

    Open-source PDF viewer/editor using Qt framework with C++ library, multithreading, hardware rendering, encryption, text layout, and form tools.

    PDF4QT screenshot 1
    98 alternatives
  16. LiquidText icon
     12 likes

    LiquidText offers a fast, natural way to review, gather, and organize information across all your docs: then apply the results to writing reports or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together

    LiquidText screenshot 1
    14 alternatives
  17. Squid icon
     19 likes

    Take handwritten notes naturally on your Android tablet, phone, or Chromebook supporting Android apps! With Squid you can write just like you would on paper using an active pen, passive stylus, or your finger.

    • Note-taking Tool
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Kindle Fire
    Squid screenshot 1
    23 alternatives
  18. UPDF icon
     4 likes

    UPDF is a PDF editor offering a variety of features such as editing, annotating, converting, protecting, and organizing PDFs. It allows users to modify text and images, apply annotations like highlighter, underline, sticky notes, and links.

    • PDF Reader
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Edit PDF
    68 alternatives
  19. PDFill icon
     39 likes

    With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume...

    The only free pdf-software able to split very big pdf-files over 200 pages
    162 alternatives