PDFsam Alternatives

PDFsam is described as 'Free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files' and is a very popular PDF Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to PDFsam for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and Flathub apps. The best PDFsam alternative is PDF Arranger, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PDFsam are PDF-XChange Editor, Stirling-PDF, PDF24 Creator and Adobe Acrobat DC.

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PDFsam alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Readers or PDF Printers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Linux, Open Source and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PDFsam.
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  1. 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.

    97 PDF4QT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. PDFill icon
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    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...

    162 PDFill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. LightPDF.com icon
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    Cloud PDF toolkit provides over 20 tools for editing, conversion, OCR, merge, split, annotation, batch processing, and signatures, with free online access, cross-platform usability, no watermarks, no size limits, and options for mobile and desktop integration.

    170 LightPDF.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. PDF Candy icon
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    PDF Candy is an online PDF toolset of 47 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,

    179 PDF Candy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  5. PDF-Shuffler icon
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    Merge, split, rotate, crop and rearrange pdf documents and their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

    89 PDF-Shuffler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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  6. PDFedit icon
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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.

    92 PDFedit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. SwifDoo icon
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    Looking for methods to edit, merge,split,convert,rotate,annotate and other related manipulate on PDF? SwifDoo PDF will match your needs and handle most of your PDF-related jobs.

    68 SwifDoo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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.

    44 PDFtk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. PDF Architect icon
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    PDF Architect is a PDF Editor with free functions like rotate, delete and move pages and even more like editing text, PDF to Word, 256 Bit AES Encryption and more.

    89 PDF Architect alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. jPdf Tweak icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. PdfMod icon
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    PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents.

    85 PdfMod alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. PDF Shaper icon
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    PDF Shaper makes it easy to tailor the content of PDF files. Users can split PDF files into smaller PDFs, extract or delete individual pages, and encrypt and decrypt files. It's just as simple to merge multiple PDF files into a larger file.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Very clear and simple user interface, and a whole bunch of tools available in free version, and even more in the paid one.

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    • PDF Shaper is Freemium and ProprietaryPDFsam is Freemium and Open Source
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