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 LEKTRA, Sioyek, GImageReader and Paperwork.

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  1. Stirling PDF icon

    Stirling PDF

     65 likes

    Locally hosted web application offering an interactive GUI to merge, split, reorganize, convert, compress, watermark, secure, sign, flatten, repair, extract images, detect blanks, apply OCR, set permissions, and enable file processing or API integration for PDFs.

    124 Stirling PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • 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
    Negative
    0

    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 a PDF Editor Adobe Acrobat DC is a PDF Reader
    • Stirling PDF is Privacy focusedAdobe Acrobat DC is not according to our users
  2. LEKTRA icon

    LEKTRA

     19 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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Sioyek icon

    Sioyek

     25 likes

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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Sioyek vs Adobe Acrobat DC Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

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

    • Sioyek is Free and Open SourceAdobe Acrobat DC is Paid and Proprietary
    • Sioyek is LightweightAdobe Acrobat DC is not according to our users
  5. GImageReader icon

    GImageReader

     75 likes

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

    110 GImageReader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    GImageReader vs Adobe Acrobat DC Comments
    KimiBCN
    Negative
    1

    It's not an alternative to Acrobat Pro; it lacks many features.

    • GImageReader is Free and Open SourceAdobe Acrobat DC is Paid and Proprietary
    • GImageReader is a Screenshot Capture Adobe Acrobat DC is a PDF Reader
  8. OCRmyPDF icon

    OCRmyPDF

     18 likes

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

    25 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. PDFtk icon

    PDFtk

     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.

    52 PDFtk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. KillerPDF icon

    KillerPDF

     4 likes

    Portable PDF editor for field techs and anyone tired of Adobe. View, annotate, edit text, OCR, fill forms, sign, merge, split, and print. Free and open source: no subscription, no account, no telemetry.

    54 KillerPDF alternatives

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    • Windows
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  11. RapidOCR icon

    RapidOCR

     2 likes

    📄 Awesome OCR multiple programing languages toolkits based on ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MNN, PaddlePaddle, TensorRT and PyTorch.

    24 RapidOCR alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Minimal PDF Compress icon

    Minimal PDF Compress

     3 likes

    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.

    38 Minimal PDF Compress alternatives

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    • Windows
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  13. CopyFish icon

    CopyFish

     19 likes

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

    83 CopyFish alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Select text in a Photo/PDF to copy, paste and translate it.
     
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    CopyFish vs Adobe Acrobat DC Comments
    Luis Lobo
    Positive
    0

    It only does OCR it is not a PDF editor.

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

     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.

    43 clawPDF alternatives

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    • Windows
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