Open Source PDFedit Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to PDFedit for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best open source Linux alternative is ScanTailor Advanced. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to PDFedit and eight of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to PDFedit are PDF4QT, PDF-Shuffler, gscan2pdf and PoDoFoBrowser.

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  1. Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file.

    16 ScanTailor Advanced alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. PDF4QT icon
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    Open-source PDF viewer and editor using Qt framework, featuring hardware-accelerated rendering, encryption, multithreading, text-to-speech, annotation tools, form filling, high-res monitor support, document compression, audio book conversion, and signature validation.

    103 PDF4QT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. PDF-Shuffler icon
     34 likes

    Merge, split, rotate, crop and rearrange pdf documents and their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

    91 PDF-Shuffler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. gscan2pdf icon
     21 likes

    gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an...

    29 gscan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. PoDoFoBrowser icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. pdfslicer icon
     3 likes

    This is a simple application for extracting, rotating and reordering pages of a PDF document, with undo/redo support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. PDF Vole icon
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    PDF Vole is a 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. This desktop app reads and writes PDF documents. It was created for a small copy shop in Germany. Features of this application are:

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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