PDF Rider Alternatives and Similar Software

PDFsam

PDFsam Basic is a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to: * Merge PDF files (the entire documents or selected page ranges), retaining or discarding bookmarks, acroforms and generating or not a table of contents. * Split PDF files by pages (odd, even, single pages, etc.). * Extract a selection of pages from a PDF file. * Split PDF files by size. * Split PDF files by bookmarks level. * Rotate PDF files in batch.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Adobe Acrobat DC

Make your job easier with Adobe Acrobat DC, the trusted PDF creator. Use Acrobat to convert, edit, and sign PDF files at your desk or on the go. Acrobat DC is the completely reimagined desktop version of the world’s best PDF solution. It includes a mobile app so you can fill, sign and share PDFs on any device. And with Document Cloud services, you can create, export, edit and track PDFs from anywhere — and stay connected to recent files across all your devices.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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PDF-XChange Editor

The smallest, fastest, most feature-rich PDF editor/viewer available * Full Direct Content Editing (text based PDFs, not scanned/image based PDFs) * Includes OCR feature * View, Edit, and annotate PDF files

Commercial Windows

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PDF24 PDF Creator

Create PDF and convert documents to PDF for free with the free PDF24 PDF Creator. Its unique feature among the free PDF printer tools is an editor, which allows to merge PDFs, remove pages or create a new document with selected pages.

Free Windows

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PDFTK Builder

PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to for PDFtk, making it much easier to use. It is a easy to use tool to collate (merge), split, encrypt, decrypt, stamp and rotate (only 90°, 180° or 270°) pdf documents.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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Master PDF Editor

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, title, subject, keywords, creator, and producer information. You can create, edit, preview, encrypt, sign and print XPS and interactive PDF documents with just a few clicks.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux

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Nitro Pro

Nitro Pro gives you everything you need to create, convert, edit, sign, and share 100% industry-standard PDF files. It's simple, straightforward, and intuitive to use — so you can work more productively, your way.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows

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PDF-Shuffler

Merge, split, rotate, crop and rearrange pdf documents and their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

Free Open Source Linux

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PDFill

With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume your filling anytime. PDF Writer is Freeware. PDF Editor is not.

Commercial Windows

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PdfMod

PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents. You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.

• Discontinued The program seems no longer updated. Last release, 0.9.1, was released on March 3, 2011 and only translations have been done on the project since then. It can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

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jPdf Tweak

jPDF Tweak is a Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition, compress, encrypt, decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more. Note that this tool specifically supports PocketMod, even an "upside down" option if you prefer the first fold closed on top.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Latest version, 1.1, released in December 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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qvPDF

qvPDF is a PDF creator for Windows, but you can also merge & split. Its implemented as printer driver and uses plugins to execute different actions after creating the PDF. Processing parameters can be written directly into the printed document like: @|mapi.mailto=me@you.de|@ . The user Interface is available in 5 languages.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Windows

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PDFedit

Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + commandline interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in editor and almost anything can be scripted, it is possible to create own scripts or plugins.

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 20140526_1531, released in May 2014, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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Infix PDF Editor

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. It doesn't matter whether you change a single word, a paragraph, or an entire page. Infix is the only PDF editor that covers your back, reflowing and reformatting text to keep it looking good. Once you’ve saved a file, you can’t even tell it’s been edited.

Commercial Mac Windows

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UnityPDF

UnityPDF lets you merge, split, divide, rotate, protect PDF files and more. All features are easy to use and do not require complex skills. Just drag and drop one or more PDF files and simply click on what you want to do. UnityPDF can merge, split (one page per file), divide (by file size or number of pages), extract or insert a range of pages, protect and set permissions, view and clear metadata of PDF files.

• Discontinued Website not accessible. Download available here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/unitypdf.html

Free Windows

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PDF Cutter

PDF Cutter is a free PDF document splitting software, it can help you to quickly split PDF files. Software supports three splitting methods, you can choose according to your requirements, simple and easy to use.

Free Personal Windows

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PDF Candy

PDF Candy is an online PDF toolset of 24 services for successful processing of PDF files. The service is free for single-file operations and does not require an account. A desktop application is also offered, Free version of the Windows program is limited to 2 operations (up to 4 files each) and no PPT support in the desktop version.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Web

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Junko

Junko is a PDF tool developed for quicker and more efficient access to information needed from your PDF files, reorganizing them in a way that makes them easier to manage and handle. With the ability to split PDF files into separate documents, either by page range or page numbers, and merge an unlimited number of PDF documents into a single PDF file, you gain control of all your PDF files.

Free Windows

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PDFTools

PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file. Version 1.1+ includes a very powerful and simple to use XML to PDF converter.

• Discontinued Last version, 1.3, was released on August 2007. It is still downloadable from the official website.

Free Windows

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CAD-KAS PDF Editor

[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 spelling errors or change old phone numbers. Just double click on a text object to edit it. You can select and drag and drop any object in the pdf file.

Freemium Windows

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PyPDF2

PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write pdfs with Python

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Cisdem PDFCreator

Cisdem PDFCreator for Mac is the ideal tool when you want to easily create PDF from Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), EPUB, Text, RTFD, HTML, CHM, JPG, and PNG etc. file formats. It has a good conversion quality, the layout is almost well preserved -- tables, images and formatting, text columns, font and style, image placement, superscript, and underlined text.

Freemium Mac

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PDF Reader

PDF Reader is the ideal app for anyone who works with PDFs in the office or at home. PDF Reader allows you to organize all annotated information with a few taps. You can quickly backup and send documents to your friends, classmates and colleagues via email and cloud storage services (share via Android). Optimizing your work quality and productivity couldn’t be easier! Key Features - FILE MANGER & VIEWING MODE.

Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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PDFMate Free PDF Merger

PDFMate Free PDF Merger is an easy-to-use but powerful 5-in-1 PDF application, combining functions of PDF Merger, Image & PDF Joiner, PDF Breaker, JPG to PDF Converter, and PDF Encrypter. Features Merge PDF, Split PDF, Encrypt PDF - Merge PDFs: Support merging any number of complete PDF files / specific pages from multiple PDFs into a SINGLE one, easily, quickly, and accurately.

Free Windows

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PoDoFoBrowser

PoDoFoBrowser is a graphical browser and editor for the object structure of PDF files.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD