Adobe Acrobat DC Alternatives for Linux

Adobe Acrobat DC is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Master PDF Editor, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC are Sejda, GImageReader, Qoppa PDF Studio and Sioyek.

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  1. Master PDF Editor is complete solution for editing PDF and XPS files. You can insert, edit, remove, copy, add images or graphics. Export, import, remove and change page layouts. Also Master PDF Editor provides full functionality for changing PDF information, including author...

    143 Master PDF Editor alternatives

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  2. Sejda icon
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    Sejda helps with your PDF tasks: edit existing text, split, merge, extract, compress, export to other formats and more.

    148 Sejda alternatives

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

    96 GImageReader alternatives

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  4. Create, Convert, Review and Edit PDF Documents on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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

    43 Sioyek alternatives

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  6. LEKTRA icon
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    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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  7. Papers icon
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    A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.

    76 Papers alternatives

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  8. PDFtk icon
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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.

    48 PDFtk alternatives

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  9. Comprehensive cross-platform PDF suite enabling accurate conversion from native or scanned files to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and AutoCAD, with OCR support, document editing, annotation, redaction, interactive forms, table customization, batch creation, secure signing, and multilingual UI.

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  10. RAD PDF icon
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    RAD PDF is a website component and online interface for editing, filling, signing, and viewing PDF documents. This ASP.NET technology offers your users a free PDF editor, ready for integration with your web application.

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  11. Aspose.Pdf for Cloud is a REST API to create, edit & manipulate PDF files. It also convert PDF file to DOC, DOCX, HTML, XPS, TIFF etc. You can create a new PDF either from scratch or from HTML, XML, template, database, XPS or an image.

    60 Aspose.Pdf for Cloud alternatives

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