Adobe Acrobat DC Alternatives

Adobe Acrobat DC is described as 'Create and edit PDFs. Collaborate with ease. E-sign documents and collect signatures. Get everything done in one app, wherever you work. Acrobat’s got it. Stay on top of your documents with powerful features for desktop, mobile, and web' and is a very popular PDF Reader in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Adobe Acrobat DC alternative is PDF-XChange Editor, which is free. Other great apps like Adobe Acrobat DC are PDF24 Creator, Nitro PDF , Master PDF Editor and PDFgear.

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Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or PDF Printers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Linux, Windows + Free, Windows + Open Source, Windows and Mac + Free. 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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    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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    pdfMachine is simple and fast, with no complicated options and is a native Windows print driver. If you know how to print from an application then you can use pdfMachine!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    78 ClarifyDocuments alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    57 pdfly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
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    Infix PDF editor lets you open, edit and save PDF files. It’s easy and quick – you can change text, fonts, images and more. And, unlike other PDF editors, it works like normal word processing software, so it’s really easy to use.

    87 Infix PDF Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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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.

    103 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    [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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    PDF Conversion Tool allows you to easily and quickly convert almost any file into PDF format and back. Easily converts PDF file to Microsoft Word format (doc, docx) and to almost any images format (png, jpg, gif, etc.).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Adlib PDF delivers enterprise-class, document-to-PDF conversion software. It offers the highest fidelity PDF rendering engine on the market, with accurate OCR capabilities and intelligent document assembly.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
     
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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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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Compare PDFs intelligently with i-net PDFC. It detects content differences—not just text or images—and displays them beautifully, like holding two pages to the light.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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