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Skim
A PDF Reader and Note-taker for OS X
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires OS X 10.10 or higher. -
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PDF.js
A PDF Reader in JavaScript
PDF.js is a web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering Portable Document Formats (PDFs). Open source and built with HTML5, this PDF viewer is supported by a great community and Mozilla Labs. PDF.js can be used on both modern and older browsers, and is built into version 19+ of Firefox. -
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mPDF
PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
mPDF is a PHP library that generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. The original author, Ian Back, wrote mPDF to output PDF files ‘on-the-fly’ from his website, handling different languages. It is slower than the original scripts e.g. HTML2FPDF and produces larger files when using Unicode fonts, but support for CSS styles etc. and has been much enhanced. Supports almost all languages including RTL (Arabic and Hebrew), and CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). Nested block-level elements (e.g. P, DIV) including margins, borders, padding, line height, background colors, etc. Right-to-left languages are supported, with automatic detection of RTL characters within a document. Transposes tables, lists, text justification, and table cell alignment, as well as a full-text reversal for RTL characters. Automatically detects non-RTL characters and displays these in the original order. -
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SumatraPDF Reader
Multi-format (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CHM, XPS, DjVu) reader for Windows
Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority. Portable version is a single executable, can be run from USB drive and doesn't write to registry. For best results use the latest release available as that's what I use and test with. If things don't compile, first make sure you're using the latest version of Visual Studio. To compile you need Visual Studio 2019 16.6 or later. Free Community edition works. -
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Super-PDF-Editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based PDF editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based and lighting fast PDF reader, editor and batch processor. PDF editing with 60+ features rich tools and function like OCR pdf and images and produce output like searchable PDF, Text, Hocr, Box, Unlv. Also, improve image enhancement before OCR operation for better OCR performance. pdf Imposition, etc. Super PDF Editor is best for bulk pdf processing, especially for the printing industry. Easy pdf imposition, booklet, n ups pages, and more. OCR performs in pdf files, scanned pdf files and any pdf files. OCR performs in image files, and supports multiple image formats. Auto and manual image enhancement for better OCR accuracy and quality. Supports 165+ languages with three languages data set. Use Multiple Languages at once. International Languages: 127 Languages, High, Medium, and Fast Quality. Scanned Images (jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp) Multi-Page and TIFF and GIF, Scanned PDFs. -
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Dompdf
HTML to PDF converter for PHP
dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer, it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro. (Some important changes have been made to the R&OS class, however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class, though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF libraries. -
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NAPS2 - Not Another PDF Scanner
Scan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible.
Visit NAPS2's home page at www.naps2.com. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. NAPS2 is currently available in over 40 different languages. Want to see NAPS2 in your preferred language? Help translate! See the wiki for more details. -
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PDF4QT
Open source PDF editor
PDF4QT is open source PDF editor based on Qt framework. It contains a C++ library, applications for viewing/editing PDF documents, and a command line tool. PDF4QT is an open-source PDF editor for Windows/Linux. It is a modern solution for viewing/editing/rendering PDF documents, for users and developers alike. For developers, there is a C++ library and a command line tool for use in scripts. For users, there are four applications offering many features. The project is hosted on Github and uses the license LGPLv3. The applications are primarily used by target users to view, edit, manipulate or compare PDF documents. Users can preview these applications in the screenshots section of this webpage. Basic browsing and lots of other functionalities, such as encryption, reading a document, verification of digital signatures, editing of annotations, searching for text using regular expressions, drawing pages into an image, and much more. Several plug-ins are available. -
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jsPDF
HTML5 client solution for generating PDFs
The leading HTML5 client solution for generating PDFs. Perfect for event tickets, reports, certificates, you name it! PDFs are ubiquitous across the web, with virtually every enterprise relying on them to share documents. We created jsPDF to solve a major problem with how pdf files were being generated. We decided to make it open-source to allow a community of developers to expand on it. -
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Pandoc
The universal markup converter
Pandoc is a universal document converter able to convert files from a multitude of markup formats into another. With Pandoc, you have a swiss-army knife of a converter, able to convert practically any markup format into any other. Pandoc contains a Haskell library for conversions as well as a command-line tool that uses this library. It can convert to and from just about anything-- lightweight markup formats, HTML formats, documentation formats, ebooks, TeX formats, word processor formats and so much more. It understands several useful markdown syntax extensions, such as document metadata, footnotes, tables, and more. If you want strict markdown compatibility however, these extensions can be turned off. Pandoc is no doubt powerful and customizable, but it is important to note that its intermediate representation of a document is less expressive than many of the formats, so it may not produce perfect conversions every time. -
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OpenPDF
open source Java library for creating and editing PDF files
OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is the LGPL/MPL open source successor of iText, and is based on a fork, of a fork, of iText 4 svn tag. -
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QPDF
PDF transformation/manipulation program + library
QPDF is a C++ library and set of programs that inspect and manipulate the structure of PDF files. It can encrypt and linearize files, expose the internals of a PDF file, and do many other operations useful to end users and PDF developers. -
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OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files
OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. PDF is the best format for storing and exchanging scanned documents. Unfortunately, PDFs can be difficult to modify. OCRmyPDF makes it easy to apply image processing and OCR (recognized, searchable text) to existing PDFs. -
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Super-PDF-Editor-Lite
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based PDF editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based and lighting fast PDF reader, editor and batch processor. Includes features like Create PDF from Images, HTML, Text files. Create a processing log file. Extract Page, Split Page, Rotate Page, Merge Page, Duplicate page, Move Page, Printing, and Compress Page. Improve image enhancement before OCR operation for better OCR performance. pdf Imposition, etc. Super PDF Editor is best for bulk pdf processing, especially for the printing industry. Easy pdf imposition, booklet, n ups pages, and more. OCR performs in pdf files, scanned pdf files and any pdf files. OCR performs in image files, and supports multiple image formats. Auto and manual image enhancement for better OCR accuracy and quality. Supports 165+ languages with three languages data set. Use Multiple Languages at once. International Languages: 127 Languages, High, Medium, and Fast Quality. Scanned Images (jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp) Multi-Page and TIFF and GIF, Scanned PDFs. -
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Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript).
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pdf-editor
Edit your PDFs without needing a subscription or creating accounts
Edit your PDFs without needing a subscription or creating accounts. Add a GUI/Turn it into a web application. Add a parser for the command line to do multiple commands at once e.g. merge (cut pdf1) pdf2. Tested working with Python 3.8.5. Install venv (py -3.8 -m pip install virtualenv). PDF and Word documents are binary files, which makes them much more complex than plaintext files. In addition to text, they store lots of font, color, and layout information. If you want your programs to read or write to PDFs or Word documents, you’ll need to do more than simply pass their filenames to open(). -
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TCPDF - PHP class for PDF
PHP class for PDF
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF Supports UTF-8, Unicode, RTL languages, XHTML, Javascript, digital signatures, barcodes and much more. IMPORTANT: This version will be soon marked as deprecated and replaced by a new version currently under development: https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf -
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Tabula
Extract data in CSV format from PDFs
If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface. Tabula works on Mac, Windows and Linux. Tabula was created by journalists for journalists and anyone else working with data locked away in PDFs. Tabula will always be free and open source. -
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QuestPDF
A library that can help you with generating PDF documents
Quickly design and generate PDF documents with an open-source, modern, and battle-tested C# library. Forget about limitations, feel confident, enjoy your task and efficiently deliver professional products. QuestPDF is a progressive library that can help you with generating PDF documents in your .NET application by offering a friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API. Do you believe that creating a complete invoice document can take less than 200 lines of code? We have prepared for you a step-by-step instruction that shows every detail of this implementation and describes the best patterns and practices. This library is created specifically for designing and arranging document layouts, with full paging support. Alternative solutions, such as HTML-based converters, are not designed for this purpose and therefore are often unpredictable and do not produce desired results. -
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wkhtmltopdf
Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service. There is also a C library, if you're into that kind of thing. The file pdf.h contains a fairly high level and stable pure c binding to wkhtmltopdf. These binding are well documented and do not depend on QT. Using this is the recommended way of interfacing with the PDF portion of libwkhtmltox. The rest of the headers directly exposes the C++ QT dependent class used internally by wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage. wkhtmltopdf is able to put several objects into the output file, an object is either a single webpage, a cover webpage or a table of contents. The objects are put into the output document in the order they are specified on the command line, options can be specified on a per object basis or in the global options area. -
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pdfmake
Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
Print PDFs directly in the browser or delegate it to your NodeJS backend. Use the same document definition in both cases. Forget about manual x, y calculations. Declare document structure and let pdfmake do the rest. Use paragraphs, columns, lists, tables, canvas, etc. Declare your own styles, use custom fonts, build a DSL and extend the framework. Provides a set of options to disable font layout cache and to control when pages are flushed to the output file. Pdfmake is runnable in browser (client-side) and in Node.js (server-side). PDF name can be defined only by using metadata title property. Add-ons used in browsers can affect the functionality of pdfmake (especially for open() and print()). If pdfmake is not working try disable add-ons in browser. The supported browsers are Internet Explorer 10+, Edge 12+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. -
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PdfBooklet is a Python Gtk application which allows to make books or booklets from existing pdf files. It can also adjust margins, rotate, scale, merge files or extract pages.
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PDFCreator
Converts every printable document to PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF and more
PDFCreator creates professional PDFs with just a few clicks and it's free. PDFCreator comes with many professional features to merge documents, send emails, and more. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, Excel, or any other Windows application. A PDF takes less storage space, and is easier to send with email. Make PDF creator part of your the software suite you have installed on your computer for easy PDF creation. PDFCreator also comes with a COM programming interface that allows to integrate PDFCreator in other applications and a server mode to share PDFCreator on a network. -
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PDFTK Builder Enhanced
Enhanced version of the PDFTK Builder GUI for PDF Toolkit on Windows
Free and open source GUI application for manipulating PDF files using the Windows version of PDF Toolkit (PDFtk) - split, merge, stamp, number pages, rotate, metadata, bookmarks, attachments, etc. This project is a fork of PDFTK Builder by Angus Johnson that enhances the user interface, adds functions, and enables use of later versions of PDFtk. OS: Windows. Author: David King. License: GPLv3.