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 , PDFgear and Master PDF Editor.

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Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or Document Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Linux, Windows + Free, Windows, Android and PDF Editor. 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. Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, a PDF converter, an online word processor, and web conferencing — you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others.

    97 Acrobat.com - Create PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is a Microsoft Office application that supports editing documents scanned by Microsoft Office Document Scanning. It was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP and is included in later Office versions including Office 2007.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. PDF Conversion Tool allows you to easily and quickly convert almost any file into PDF format and back. Easily converts PDF files to Microsoft Word format and to almost any image format. As a bonus, it also provides the ability to protect, remove the password and compress almost...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. PDF reDirect icon
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    PDF reDirect is the full-featured alternative to PDF995 and CutePDF.

    Features

    Create Standard PDF Files

    Create universal, standard, reliable and secure PDF files, recognized by industries and governments around the world. Perfect for sharing information with others.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Text-R icon
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    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. SmallPDFfree offers a free online suite for all your big and small PDF needs. Access a suite of powerful, user-friendly tools that can merge, split, compress, convert, and edit your PDF files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. OCRify icon
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    OCRify converts images and PDFs into editable digital text. Upload your file, and the text is quickly recognized, allowing you to copy, edit, or save it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. PaperScan icon
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    PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN and WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. SignFree icon
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    Tired of printing out, signing, and scanning documents manually? Or to sign it to an app and then discover that you can only sign 3 documents for free? Well that's why we created SignFree: we want virtual signing to finally be simple!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. jPDFPreflight is a Java PDF library SDK used to verify PDF compliance with different standards, including PDF/UA, PDF/A and PDF/X and to convert documents to these standards.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
     
  11. PDF Panda icon
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    Split or merge PDF documents. Reorder or remove pages. Compare PDF documents. Advanced PDF extraction (e.g. get all invoice numbers of many PDF documents at once. Everything easy with PDF Panda!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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