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Compare the Top PDF Software for Linux of 2021

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    Adobe PDF Library

    Adobe PDF Library

    Datalogics Inc.

    The Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics allows you to incorporate Adobe's PDF functionality into your own applications. Built with the same core technology that Adobe uses to build Acrobat, the Adobe PDF Library SDK is a PDF library that contains a powerful set of native C/C++ APIs with interfaces for .NET and Java. Create & edit PDFs, redact & extract text, and much more with this robust library. Save time, money, and resources by having all of your PDF needs at your fingertips!
    Starting Price: Custom Pricing
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    PDF Studio

    PDF Studio

    Qoppa Software

    Affordable, Powerful PDF Editor for Windows, Mac, Linux An easy to use, full-featured PDF editing software that is a reliable alternative to Adobe® Acrobat® and provides all PDF functions needed at a fraction of the cost. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard. Features in PDF Studio Standard: -Create PDFs -Scan-To-PDF -Annotate and Markup PDFs -Precision Measuring Tools -Fill In & Save PDF Forms -Secure Documents -Append / Delete Pages -Create Watermarks, Headers, Footers -Loupe, Pan & Zoom, Rulers, etc… -Document Storage Integrations -Docusign Integration -Supports the new PDF 2.0 standards Features in PDF Studio Pro All Features in Standard, Plus… -Interactive Form Designer -OCR (Text Recognition) -Content Editing (Text and Images) -Redact & Sanitize PDFs -Compare PDFs -Optimize PDFs -Digitally Sign PDFs -Advanced Imposition
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    Starting Price: $89.00
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    Foxit Reader

    Foxit Reader

    Foxit Software

    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 create (free PDF creation), open, view, sign, and print any PDF file. Foxit Reader is built upon the industry's fastest and most accurate (high fidelity) PDF rendering engine, providing users with the best PDF viewing and printing experience. Available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
    Starting Price: $8.00/month
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    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyperCMS Content Management Solutions

    The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.
    Starting Price: $21.00/month for SaaS, $0 for the On-Premise Free Edition
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    MuPDF

    MuPDF

    Artifex Software

    Add powerful PDF functionality to all of your software application projects. MuPDF is a highly versatile, customizable PDF SDK that can be used as a PDF renderer, viewer, or library. The tiny footprint and lightning-fast performance make MuPDF a perfect fit for mobile browsers, eBooks, and embedded applications where small size is key. MuPDF supports a variety of interactive features including annotations, form filling, digital signatures, redactions, text search, and progressive loading. The wide range of input and output formats and our full range of platform support deliver a flexible solution to easily and successfully fulfill your project’s unique needs. MuPDF supports PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, EPUB, FictionBook 2 and CBZ. The MuPDF API easily integrates with all of the major platforms including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows. C++ and Python bindings have been added making it easy to use the MuPDF library from these languages.
    Starting Price: $749/per platform*
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    SanPDF Converter

    SanPDF Converter

    Sanshangyun Technology Co., Ltd

    SanPDF is developed by the team of Sanshangyun Technology Co., Ltd, and supports various document formats such as PDF and e-book. It also provides the ability to convert between PDF and office documents. We are committed to creating convenient and intelligent products for Internet users. We hope to develop application software for your life and office through technical innovation and humanized design concept. We desire to help you improve your work efficiency, bring more convenience to your life and make your life rich and colorful. SanPDF supports multiple file formats such as PDF, XPS, DjVu, CHM, Mobi, EPUB e-books and comic books. SanPDF could help you to realize PDF file conversion such as PDF to Word(.doc, .docx), PDF to Excel(.xls, .xlsx), PDF to PPT(.ppt, .pptx), Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PPT to PDF, and PDF to JPEG, PNG, BMP image, split or merge PDF.
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    PSPDFKit SDK

    PSPDFKit SDK

    PSPDFKit

    PSPDFKit is a leading PDF Framework for every platform: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Web Standalone and Server (On-Premise, Docker). Their PDF frameworks allow developers to quickly add extensive PDF support to their apps. The framework contains meticulously designed APIs to help developers add a high-performance viewer, extensive document editing tools that provide highlighting, markup, annotations, digital signatures, and more. PSPDFKit is designed and built in a modular way so that it scales with development needs allowing developers to focus on building great apps.
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    DocShifter

    DocShifter

    DocShifter

    Enterprises work with a lot of digital documents, in multiple file formats. And these documents need to be converted for sharing & collaboration, standardization or archiving. Or simply because today’s systems have difficulties working with older formats. Converting between formats happens manually, which is inefficient, slow, inconsistent and expensive. Different tools are used to convert documents throughout the organisation. On top of that, in sectors like life sciences and finance, specific regulatory document requirements must be met. DocShifter, an automated file format conversion platform, solves these challenges. The software automatically recognizes documents and emails and converts them to the output format of your choice. In PDF or any other standardized format. Lightning fast. To the specifications required by your organisation or the regulators in your industry. Once converted, these documents can be further shared internally & externally, archived as PDF/A.
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    Able2Extract Professional
    Convert, create, edit, OCR, compare, and sign PDFs. Customize the interface language and its appearance from light to dark themes for working with PDFs comfortably. Tailor your conversions by selecting a page, a paragraph, or even a single line for conversion. Custom PDF to Excel conversion to convert complex PDF table data to Microsoft Excel with pinpoint precision and a Smart Layout Detector for keeping table styles intact. Edit PDF text and pages. Annotate and redact PDF content. Sign PDF documents. Fill, edit and create PDF forms. Split documents into even parts. Convert scanned PDFs in English, French, Spanish, and German. Automate the batch PDF conversion process by queuing up a large volume of PDF files and even whole directories. Batch create PDF from a wide range of formats and merge all PDFs into one file. Create secure PDFs from blank pages or existing documents by adding passwords and file permissions. Able2Extract Professional: Your Swiss Army Knife for PDF files.
    Starting Price: $149.95/one-time/user
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    Spott

    Spott

    Spott

    Put your content in the Spott-light with a unique user experience. Increase your conversions and your visibility by making your media interactive with our easy-to-use platform. You’re putting a lot of effort into creating powerful content for your brand. Now it’s time to make sure your content stands out, drives engagement, and lets viewers take action easily. It’s time for your content to be interactive. Making your content interactive has never been easier. Our tools give you the power to turn any marketing assets interactive in a couple of clicks, without coding or design skills. Working with a lot of products? The product feed automatically adds new items and keeps everything up-to-date. The attention span of your visitors is becoming shorter and shorter every day. If you want your content to be noticed in a sea of digital impressions, it needs interactivity. Even better, interactive image & video content can turn passive attention into active attention.
    Starting Price: $35 per user per month
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    RAD PDF

    RAD PDF

    Red Software

    Try editing any PDF with RAD PDF, FREE! This server is configured to allow up to 50 MB and 1000 pages. Compatible with 99% of internet browsers on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, & Linux, RAD PDF allows you to deploy your solution universally without imposing additional requirements. No plugins. No Adobe Reader. No Adobe Flash. Not merely a PDF to HTML converter, RAD PDF natively supports the most commonly used PDF features. Beyond a PDF reader, RAD PDF equips web applications with a browser-based PDF editor and PDF annotator. Features not even available in Adobe Acrobat Reader can be selectively enabled and disabled to provide advanced PDF functionality. By enabling PDF form filling & PDF form saving directly in the web browser, RAD PDF users can utilize PDF form fields without worrying about having the right software installed. Facilitate the design of new PDF forms and modification of existing PDF forms using an online graphical user interface.
    Starting Price: $299 per developer
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    Conholdate.Total For .NET
    Conholdate.Total for .NET is the complete package of all .NET APIs as offered by Aspose and GroupDocs. It empowers the developers to perform a wide range of document processing tasks from within their own .NET based applications. This .NET package is an all-in-one solution for all types of document managements systems because it offers the ability to create, edit, print, view, annotate, compare, sign, automate, search and convert between a wide range of popular document formats. Process a Multitude of File Formats - Conholdate.Total for .NET empowers you to build an incredibly versatile file processing system capable of handling many popular file formats. You can easily open, create, modify and convert file formats. Conholdate.Total for .NET currently supports following file types: Microsoft Word documents Microsoft Excel spreadsheets Microsoft PowerPoint presentations Adobe PDF documents Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Project files and more than 100 other file formats
    Starting Price: from US$ 3,999
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    Slim PDF Reader

    Slim PDF Reader

    Investintech.com

    Copy and paste PDF text, annotate PDFs, fill out interactive PDF forms, and validate digital signatures you receive on Windows, Mac, and Linux with a lightweight & completely free Slim PDF Reader. It comes with a Dark theme setting that will help you save battery on a laptop and reduce eye strain, a full range of advanced and customizable annotation tools, various document navigation tools, search and print features, ability to copy text for pasting into another application, snapshot tool, interactive PDF form filling and signature verification features. Slim PDF Reader is one of the smallest desktop PDF readers (download size only 15 MB), 100% bloatware free, fast and easy on system resources.
    Starting Price: Free
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    PDFChef

    PDFChef

    Movavi

    Edit and convert PDF files online, right in your browser. Download PDFChef by Movavi for PC or Mac and customize PDFs to your precise needs. Get access to advanced tools and different PDF editing modes at no charge. We’re all about making managing PDFs easy and convenient. Our software provides all the tools you need to work effectively and helps you to fulfill your potential. With this big update, we’ve changed our name to better reflect who we are and what we do. PDFChef lets you take care of routine PDF-related tasks without risking the security of your device. There’s also a trial version available as a free download for you to check out all the functionality of the full version of our PDF-editing software. PDFChef by Movavi is a multifunctional program to edit PDFs. You can add and edit text, insert, crop, and resize images. Our PDF editor also allows you to rearrange, delete, and rotate pages. Modify your PDFs in any way you want with PDFChef.
    Starting Price: $29.95 per user per year
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    PlatoForms

    PlatoForms

    PlatoForms

    PlatoForms is a powerful and easy-to-use online PDF tool that lets you convert your PDF into Web Forms that your customers can easily fill out using a web browser. The online PDF Form offers features that lets you fill once to generate multiple PDF files as well as complete your PDF in a workflow. It is widely used by businesses to make PDF effortlessly shareable and fillable to their customers online. PDF retains a clean, contemporary and professional design regardless of reader, device or operating system. It supports a diverse range of colours, layouts, fonts and images for a seamless finish. Even if your PDF is setup as a fillable document, it's unwise to send the PDF directly to your customers or colleagues as few people understand how to fill out and save the document. For instance, signing a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat can be tricky for those that are not IT savvy.
    Starting Price: $12 per month
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    Accusoft PDF Viewer
    Add powerful PDF viewing and annotation features to your web application with no servers or plugins. Accusoft PDF Viewer is a JavaScript SDK that easily integrates into your web application to enable PDF viewing and annotation features with no server dependencies. With a responsive UI, lightning-fast search, and high-quality rendering, this lightweight viewer makes it easy to deliver dynamic PDF experiences across all devices. How simple is it? Add PDF viewing capabilities to your web application with just 10 lines of code. Our JavaScript-based PDF SDK runs entirely within the browser to improve your application’s performance and reliability. PDF viewing takes place within your secure web application. No third-party plugins or external software installation needed. Add just a few lines of code to your existing web application to start viewing PDFs right away and get to market faster.
    Starting Price: 0
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    Datalogics PDF Utility API
    Create PDFs from Office files, transform web content to PDF, and convert images to (and from) PDF. Don’t reinvent the wheel, use our production ready RESTful API when developing your own custom products and solutions. Maintain full security over your backend infrastructure; our private cloud offering means YOU control the end-to-end, YOU control the documents. This is just the beginning for Datalogics PDF Utility API, we’ll be adding even more capabilities over time, so be sure to check back soon! Datalogics PDF Utility API is available on the AWS Marketplace and can be spun up in just a few quick clicks. Self-host a production ready server to integrate the API into your own service, or to automate your internal document workflow. Pricing is pay-as-you-go! A lot of projects require total ownership of your backend, with limited or no communication to outside servers. Spinning up an EC2 instance that hosts our API means that you’ll have total ownership of any files hosted on your server.
    Starting Price: $0.536 per hour
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    Synap PDFocus

    Synap PDFocus

    Synapsoft

    Synap PDFocus converts and merges documents in more than 30 different formats into PDF without any application installation. Disarmed and reconstructed PDF documents can be created to be shared and the document management efficiency is improved by merging different document formats into a single PDF format. Converts HTML, MS Office, and electronic approval formats into a single high-quality PDF document with no application installation. Document management efficiency is improved by merging different format documents into a single PDF format. Detects/removes items suspected of being malicious codes and reconstructing them into PDF, with SynapSoft’s proprietary format processing technology. Electronic approval document and attached files are saved as a single PDF file and kept. Receives an email after converting to a PDF for safe attachment verification. Merges educational materials in different formats into PDF and provides them as a single file.
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    Redwood Reporting

    Redwood Reporting

    Redwood Software

    Redwood Reporting automatically delivers critical report output, when, where and how it is needed most. This eliminates the frustration, wasted time, and errors associated with manually accessing, calculating, and mapping pieces of information from disparate systems and data sources. Redwood Reporting provides: • Intuitive, browser-based access to reports from virtually any application • Push and pull options so that users have instant access to new and historical report content when needed • Optional analysis, decollation, and conversion of report content before distribution to support business and security rules • Automatic assembly of sections from disparate reports sources into personalized, unified documents for distribution via email or publication • Robust APIs for easy integration with existing business applications and instant content access • Easy administration of report access through security tools already within the user enterprise
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    PDF Automation Server
    PDF Automation Server – PDF Processing Server PDF Automation Server is a modular server product that provides a rich set of PDF processing functions for different environments. Use PAS as an essential tool to streamline your PDF processing, document workflows and web service orchestration in your organization. REST API Module Use REST API calls to easily integrate into your existing document workflows HTML5 PDF Module Convert documents and serve end-users PDF files directly in the browser Workflow Module Automate the receiving, processing & routing of documents with the PAS Workflow Module Robust REST API PDF Automation Server provides a complete set of PDF processing and conversion functions in a robust REST server environment that can easily integrate into your existing document workflows and work with 3rd party integration and orchestration products. HTML PDF Markup Module PDF Automation Server provides a module to enable markup of PDF documents in the browser.
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    jPDFProcess

    jPDFProcess

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFProcess is a Java library to create and manipulate with PDF documents that can be used to deliver customized PDF content to your users or to process incoming PDF content. The library has a simple interface to work with PDF documents and is designed to be integrated easily and seamlessly into your PDF document workflow. jPDFProcess provides the functionality found in many of our other libraries, including printing, setting permissions and security, creating and assembling documents, digital signing, working with form fields, converting to images, extracting text and more. The library can work with PDF documents from files, URLs and input streams and can save documents to files and output streams, so it can serve documents from a J2EE application directly to a client browser without any temporary files. jPDFProcess is built on top of Qoppa’s proprietary PDF technology so no external PDF Software is required.
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    jOfficeConvert

    jOfficeConvert

    Qoppa Software

    Convert Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to PDF directly from your Java applications, without user intervention and without the need for any other software. jOfficeConvert is a Java library that can read and render MS Word and Excel documents natively to convert to PDF, to convert to images, or to print the documents automatically. The library is 100% Java so it can run on any platform that supports Java, including Windows, Linux, Unix (AIX, Solaris Spark, Solaris Intel, HP-UX) and Mac OSX. The library does not use any third party software or native calls, it can be run in a server environment or integrated into a desktop application. Main Features Convert Word documents (.doc, .docx) to PDF Convert Excel documents (.xlsx) to PDF Convert Word, Excel to HTML5 (when combined with jPDFWeb) Merge multiple Word, Excel files into a single PDF document Set permissions and passwords on resulting PDF documents.
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    EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .Net
    EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET and .NET Core is a library that can be easily integrated and distributed in your ASP.NET and MVC web sites, desktop applications, Windows services and Azure cloud services to convert web pages, HTML strings and streams to PDF, to images or to SVG and to create nicely formatted and easily maintainable PDF reports and documents. The converter has full support for HTML5, CSS3, SVG, Canvas, Web Fonts and JavaScript. Does not require installation or any third party tools. EVO HTML to PDF Converter. EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .Net EVO HTML to PDF Converter Library for .NET combines the powerful printer friendly PDF format with the flexibility of the popular HTML format into a modern tool for creating nicely formatted and easily maintainable PDF reports and documents. itemThe library does not rely on external tools or services and does not require installation or server configuration changes, supporting simple
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    PDF Studio Viewer

    PDF Studio Viewer

    Qoppa Software

    PDF Studio Viewer is a cross-platform PDF reader that is reliable and easy to use. PDF Studio Viewer can annotate PDF documents and fill interactive forms. For more editing features, Qoppa Software publishes PDF Studio Standard and Pro editions. Features: -Display PDFs with high fidelity -Annotate & Markup PDFs -Fill & Save Forms -Render Digital Signatures & Layers -Advanced User Interface -Advanced Print & Search Options -Document Storage Integrations -DocuSign© Integration
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    Free PDF Online

    Free PDF Online

    Qoppa Software

    The tools and services offered on this website are available for free, with a daily use limit. There is no account creation required and no fee incurred. Visitors can use the website to solve occasional PDF processing needs or to quickly test and evaluate the underlying PDF technology, developed by Qoppa Software. We ask that users do not upload documents containing confidential information, as this service is not secure (due to lack of login mechanism).
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