Free Adobe Acrobat DC Alternatives

The best free alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC is PDF-XChange Editor. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC are PDF24 Creator, Master PDF Editor, PDFgear and Stirling-PDF.

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  1. ClarifyDocuments is a free AI tool that converts PDFs, images, and slides into clean, editable text. It automatically cleans, organizes, and processes content in any language, helping students and educators focus on learning.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. ToPDF icon
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    Free online PDF tools - convert images to PDF, merge, split & rotate PDFs with complete privacy. No upload required, works in browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. [The demo version adds a watermark to every page when you save the file.]

    Edit PDF files now! How do you change existing PDF files? You dont know how? It is easy to edit existing PDF files with PDF Editor! You can add text in any font you want or change existing text to correct.

    51 CAD-KAS PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. LuxPDF icon
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    Offers more than 15 free, open-source web-based PDF tools for editing, conversion, merging, splitting, compressing, metadata removal, and password removal, with all client-side processing, no ads, no file size or batch limits, and no registration required.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. pdfly icon
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    pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python CLI application for manipulating PDF files.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  7. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Speedpdf Editor is an easy-to-use and full-featured PDF editor. Support one-click paragraph editing, say goodbye to tedious and time-consuming single-line editing; automatically recognize fonts, saving time and effort; full text annotation can make it easier for you to read...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. ZonePDF icon
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    ZonePDF is a convenient and practical tool for PDF conversion. PDF files can easily be merged, split and converted from JPEG, PNG, DOC, XLS, PPT and other formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. qvPDF icon
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    qvPDF is a PDF creator for Windows, but you can also merge & split. Its implemented as printer driver and uses plugins to execute different actions after creating the PDF. Processing parameters can be written directly into the printed document like: @|mapi.mailto=me@you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. I Love PDF 2 icon
     1 like

    I Love PDF 2 is a 100% free online image and PDF tool with no sign-ups, no file size limits, and no usage caps. It offers fast PDF conversions, splitting, merging, OCR, JSON to PDF, editable PowerPoint/Word output, and batch processing - all in a clean.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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