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, Paperwork, Sioyek and PDFtk.

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  1. Stirling-PDF icon

    Stirling-PDF

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

    83 Stirling-PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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

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    • Stirling-PDF is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC.

    • Stirling-PDF is the most popular Open Source alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC.

    • 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. GImageReader icon

    GImageReader

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

    89 GImageReader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    KimiBCN
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    It's not an alternative to Acrobat Pro; it lacks many features.

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    • Most users think GImageReader is a great Adobe Acrobat DC alternative.

    • GImageReader is Free and Open SourceAdobe Acrobat DC is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Sioyek icon

    Sioyek

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    I love Sioyek because it has blazingly fast update time when a pdf modified. very suitable for latex with (n)vim/emacs user.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Sioyek is Free and Open SourceAdobe Acrobat DC is Paid and Proprietary
    • Sioyek is LightweightAdobe Acrobat DC is not according to our users
  6. PDFtk icon

    PDFtk

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    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.

    44 PDFtk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. OCRmyPDF icon

    OCRmyPDF

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

    19 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    CopyFish

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

    84 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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    Luis Lobo
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    It only does OCR it is not a PDF editor.

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    • CopyFish is Free and Open SourceAdobe Acrobat DC is Paid and Proprietary

  10. clawPDF

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  11. Minimal PDF Compress icon

    Minimal PDF Compress

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    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.

    36 Minimal PDF Compress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    pdfly

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

    56 pdfly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  13. CubePDF Utility icon

    CubePDF Utility

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    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

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    • Windows
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  14. PDFStitcher icon

    PDFStitcher

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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