Drawboard PDF Alternatives and Similar Software

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight multi-platform PDF document viewer. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Whether you're a consumer, business, government agency, or educational organization, you need to read, create, sign, and annotate (comment on) PDF documents and fill out PDF forms. Foxit Reader is a small, lightning fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, sign, and print any PDF file.

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• You can write into the PDF, underline text, ... Similar features to Drawboard PDF even in the free version. Guest • Mar 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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Evince

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, cbr, cbz, etc. The goal of Evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application. Evince is also capable of displaying, adding and editing PDF annotations (comments).

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a powerful software for viewing, printing, and annotating PDFs. It’s connected to Adobe Document Cloud — so it’s easier than ever to work with PDFs on computers and mobile devices. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and OS X only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Acrobat.com complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services.

• limited annotation capabilities. Cannot write directly onto pdf like in drawboard. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree   Agree

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PDF-XChange Viewer

PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader DC . The PDF XChange Viewer is an excellent tool for converting not text-searchable pdf-files in text-searchable pdf-files. Need advanced features of the Viewer? https://alternativeto .

• The free version only allows viewing PDFs, no adding text or anything else Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree   Agree

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Okular

Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. Okular combines the excellent functionalities with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others. Okular is a Free Software PDF reader.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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Xodo

Xodo is the ultimate cross-platform PDF viewer and annotator. And it’s 100% free. Powerful, fast, and optimized for all phones and tablets, Xodo’s mobile app makes it easy to access, mark up, sort, share, sync, and manage even the most complex PDF documents. Or take your PDF beyond the app with Xodo Connect and collaborate with clients, colleagues, or classmates in real-time from any web browser - no signups or installs required.

• Free. has Stylus and gesture support for windows tablets. Guest • Apr 2017 Disagree   Agree

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Skim

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

Free Open Source Mac

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qpdfview

qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.

Free Open Source Linux Haiku Qt

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GoodReader

With GoodReader on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere. Books, movies, maps, pictures; GoodReader puts it all in a single app, right in your pocket. GoodReader lets you transfer files to your iOS device, directly from your computer over a USB cable or Wi-Fi connection, from the Internet, or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.

Commercial iPhone iPad

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Kami

Cloud-based PDF viewer and annotation tool for your browser. Perfect for Chromebook 1:1 schools. View, export, print and share your PDF files straight from your browser. Kami works on all browsers and works best with Google Chrome. Kami Integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox or Box for even easier access and file management. Everything in one place.

Commercial Web Chrome

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Gaaiho PDF Reader

Besides exceptionally fast launching and displaying speed, Gaaiho Reader is reliable in printing, filling forms annotating documents and adding bookmarks. - Fill in forms: Enter your response right on the PDF form or click through and fill in the fields. When all is complete, save it and deliver. - Complete comment tools: Gaaiho Reader offers a complete set of annotation tools such as note, highlight, stamp and shapes, which allows you to enrich your documents even more.

Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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BePDF

BePDF is a PDF viewer for the BeOS, Haiku & Zeta. Besides viewing, it supports annotating and user-defined bookmarking for unencrypted PDFs. It's fully localized for 20 languages at the moment with additional languages being easily added via text files. BePDF is based on Xpdf 3.02. It handles PDF files up to PDF version 1.5 (Acrobat Reader 6.0).

Free Open Source Haiku

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Atril

Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Atril is a fork of Evince.

Free Open Source Linux

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ezPDF Reader

ezPDF Reader is a PDF viewer with some powerful features such as TTS (Text-to-Speech), annotations and PDF forms. Customized Viewing Clearly presented without the fluff, documents appear as they would on your PC, but customized to fit your mobile device's screen. Scanned and text based PDFs are all supported, including JPEG2000 and JBIG2 compression.

Commercial Android iPhone

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PDF Assistant

PDF Assistant - simple in use application, that let you easily interact with any pdf file. Provides ability to make adjustments into pdf and annotate files and user friendly interface will make working with the application simple and convenient. - selection of text in the buffer; - various markups and drawing with a pencil; - paste text to document; - allows you to open the password-protected files and much more...

Free Windows Windows Phone

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Qoppa PDF Studio

Create, Review and Edit PDF Documents on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. PDF Studio is an all-in-one, easy to use PDF editor that provides all PDF features needed at a fraction of the cost of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and other PDF editors. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard. PDF Studio is available in 3 versions: Viewer, Standard and Pro.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

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PDF Guru

Fast and clean tabbed style PDF reader, which make reading enjoyable and efficient.

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CovePDF

CovePDF is a PDF solution with advanced features such as password protect, digital sign certificate and other features like bookmarks, annotations and comments. The product focus is on the minimalist design and simple use that will enhance the way companies work!

Commercial Windows

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Haihaisoft PDF Reader

Haihaisoft Reader is a free PDF document Reader and Printer, extremely fast launch speed. It is also for reading PDF document protected by DRM-X platform.

Free Mac Windows Android iPhone

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PerfectReader

PerfectReader is a powerful PDF Reader & Annotator. Features PDF ANNOTATING The long-awaited feature now comes to PerfectReader 2. You now can mark up texts (highlight, underline, strikeout), handwrite with the Ink tool, create Sticky Notes, and make FreeTexts. Annotations can be written back to the PDF and compatible with Adobe Acrobat, Preview or any other PDF reader that can display PDF annotations.

Freemium iPhone iPad

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PDF Reader Air

PDF Reader Air is the ideal app for anyone who works with PDFs in the office or at home. Optimizing your work quality and productivity couldn’t be easier! Key Features *Fast and stable rendering performance *Page Slider viewing mode, Text Reflow & Auto Flow *Open password-protected PDF files *Full Text Search *Highlight, underline, and add shapes, sticky notes, and text boxes *PDF Signature - Freehand drawing *Flatten PDF Function *Form filling

Free Mac

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modern computer flatboat

modern computer flatboat is a mobile pdf viewer written in Qt and using MuPDF's libfitz. Some of flatboat's features are (for other features see the help page): - a column mode - an in-document history - writing support for ink annotations and text annotations For Android there's an additional version, which

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.32, released in January 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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