Adobe Acrobat DC AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as PDF Editors

The best open source PDF Editor alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC is Stirling-PDF. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC and 14 are open source PDF Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source PDF Editor alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC are BentoPDF, Signature PDF, PDFtk and Qpdf Tools.

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  1. Stirling-PDF icon
     52 likes

    locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.

    88 Stirling-PDF alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
     
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    Stirling-PDF vs Adobe Acrobat DC Comments
    KimiBCN
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    It lacks many features and has bugs. The PDF open button sometimes disappears.

    • Stirling-PDF is Freemium and Open SourceAdobe Acrobat DC is Paid and Proprietary
    • Stirling-PDF is Privacy focusedAdobe Acrobat DC is not according to our users
  2. BentoPDF icon
     10 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.

    66 BentoPDF alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Signature PDF icon
     9 likes

    Free open-source web software for signing (alone or with others), organizing (merge, sort, rotate, delete, extract pages, ...), editing metadatas or compressing PDFs.

    67 Signature PDF alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • WebApps
    • Docker Hub
     
  4. PDFtk icon
     18 likes

    PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It comes in three flavors: PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, and our original command-line tool PDFtk Server.

    46 PDFtk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Qpdf Tools icon
     2 likes

    Qpdf Tools is an easy-to-use Qt interface for Ghostscript and QPDF.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. Comprehensive PDF utility enabling advanced lossy, lossless, and archival compression, high-resolution image conversion, page rotation or deletion, merging, splitting, and batch processing, all with a minimal interface, offline operation, and cross-platform support.

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    • Windows
     
  7. This program was created in order to convert sewing patterns into a convenient format for projecting, though it could be used to stitch together any PDF.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. CubePDF Utility allows you to intuitively perform editing tasks such as merging, extracting, splitting, deleting, reordering, and rotating PDF pages via thumbnails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. FormulatePro icon
     3 likes

    FormulatePro helps you open and write on PDF documents. You can fill out any PDF form document, drop in graphics, scribble with the mouse or a tablet, save and print.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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