PDF Vole Alternatives

    PDF Vole is described as 'small tool to debug and analyze PDF files. You can open a PDF file and analyze its internal structure and content. I started this project to build a tool as I had to debug and analyze PDF files that did not render correctly or were broken in some way' and is an app in the Development category. There are four alternatives to PDF Vole for Linux, Windows and BSD. The best alternative is PDFedit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PDF Vole are PoDoFoBrowser (Free, Open Source), PDFTron PDF CosEdit (Paid) and PDFEdit in Flathub (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Jan 6, 2021

    1. PDFedit

      • Free • Open Source
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        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.

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      • PoDoFoBrowser

        • Free • Open Source
        • Windows
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        PoDoFoBrowser is a graphical browser and editor for the object structure of PDF files.
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      • PDF CosEdit is a stand-alone, low-level PDF editor. It is an essential power tool for professionals working with PDF, FDF, and PJTF. Manual editing of PDF files can be extremely difficult or impossible.
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      • Free PDF editor that lets you browse and edit the tree of raw pdf objects.
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