Open Source Adobe Acrobat DC Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Stirling-PDF. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC and many of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC are GImageReader, Sioyek, Paperwork and LEKTRA.

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Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or Document Scanners you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Linux, Windows + Free, Windows, Windows + Open Source and Android. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC.
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  1. Stirling-PDF icon
     58 likes

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

    99 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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  2. GImageReader icon
     74 likes

    gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

    96 GImageReader alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  3. Sioyek icon
     24 likes

    Sioyek is a PDF viewer with minimal interface optimized for reading research papers and technical books.

    43 Sioyek alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  4. LEKTRA icon
     13 likes

    High-performance viewer for documents and images offering split tabs, customizable single or book layouts, portals for side-by-side sections, instant search, line highlight, annotation tools, link hints, searchable highlights, session management, and TOML config.

    44 LEKTRA alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. PDFtk icon
     19 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.

    48 PDFtk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. OCRmyPDF icon
     15 likes

    OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched - jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF

    21 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. CopyFish icon
     19 likes

    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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  8.  8 likes

    Yet another PDF Printer? Yes! This PDF Printer has the intention to be completely open source. Print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text.

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    • Windows
     
  9. KillerPDF icon
     1 like

    Portable PDF editor for field techs. View, annotate, merge, split, edit text, draw, sign, and print without an Adobe subscription or a phone-home. Single Windows EXE, ~6 MB zipped, no runtime install required.

    51 KillerPDF alternatives

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    • Windows
     
  10. 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
     
  11. pdfly icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
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