Adobe Acrobat DC Alternatives Filtered by 'Split and merge PDF files'

The best alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC is PDF-XChange Editor, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC and 19 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC are PDF24 Creator, Smallpdf, iLovePDF and Signature PDF.

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  1. Feature-rich PDF editor offering direct content editing, ABBYY OCR, viewing, annotation, form filling, PDF merging, compression, and encryption. Operates efficiently offline, requiring no registration and no ads, while providing privacy-focused features and convenient portability.

    157 PDF-XChange Editor alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
     
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  2. PDF24 Creator icon
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    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.

    183 PDF24 Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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  3. Smallpdf icon
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    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.

    192 Smallpdf alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
     
  4. iLovePDF icon
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    iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!

    153 iLovePDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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  5. Signature PDF icon
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    Free open-source web software for signing (alone or with others), organizing (merge, sort, rotate, delete, extract pages, ...), editing metadatas or compressing PDFs.

    74 Signature PDF alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • WebApps
    • Docker Hub
     
  6. Provides editing of text, images, and objects in PDFs, annotation options, OCR for scanned files, conversion to multiple formats, form filling and signing, page management, merging and splitting, cloud integration, camera to PDF functionality, and sharing tools.

    137 Wondershare PDFelement alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. Comprehensive cross-platform PDF suite enabling accurate conversion from native or scanned files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and AutoCAD, with OCR support, document editing, annotation, redaction, interactive forms, table customization, batch creation, secure signing, and multilingual UI.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Qpdf Tools icon
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    Qpdf Tools is an easy-to-use Qt interface for Ghostscript and QPDF.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  9. PDFCreator Online offers fast and secure online tools that let you convert and edit your PDF files directly in your browser for free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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...

    30 gscan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. AVS Document Converter is an easy-to-use software application designed to view and convert various types of documents. AVS Document Converter can quickly and easily perform the following tasks:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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