PDF & Document Tools

Free PDF software for document editing, annotations, conversions, and page tasks. Available features vary between desktop, mobile, and web tools.

Browser-based PDF tools for review, forms, conversions, and document tasks. Availability and free-use allowances depend on the selected operation and account.

Online PDF tools for annotations, conversion, compression, and page management. Pro adds features including existing-text editing and OCR.

itinypdf offers browser-based tools to merge, compress, split, convert, sign, and edit PDF files without requiring an account.

DigiParser groups browser-based functions for organizing, converting, signing, securing, viewing, and editing PDF documents.

Render HTML as PDF or image files with wkhtmltopdf, an open-source command-line tool using Qt WebKit without a display service.

ihatepdf.cv provides browser-based tools to edit, merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, and encrypt PDF files, with no sign-up required.

Signature PDF is open-source software for signing and organizing PDF files, including shared signing, page reordering, merging, and compression.

OnlineOCR converts image files to text or PDF and supports more than 100 languages, according to its page.

Turn Markdown into PDF with Tideflow, a desktop app described by its project as offline, portable, and powered by Typst.

i2OCR extracts text from images and PDF files through a browser-based OCR service.

Stirling PDF is a PDF editor that can be run on user-provided infrastructure, according to its project description.

PDF2Go supports editing, converting, compressing, merging, splitting, rotating, sorting, and protecting PDF documents through its website.

Convert PDF files into Markdown and JSON with Marker, a Python project described by its maintainers as fast and accurate.

A Windows PDF reader and editor with free annotation features. Licensed editing tools require payment and may add evaluation watermarks when used without a license.

BentoPDF provides browser-based PDF tools for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, and editing files without uploads or signup.

Dpdf lets users merge, split, convert, compress, and organize PDF files, including conversion from PDF to Word and PowerPoint formats.

Issuu converts PDF and other document files into interactive flipbooks, which users can embed on websites and distribute online.

KDP Readiness Score audits a book manuscript PDF with checks for readiness before publishing.

Password protection for PDF files is the purpose of PDFEncrypt, an open-source application for Windows.

ImageToText converts images into extracted text with an online optical character recognition tool.

For Windows and Linux, PDF4QT offers an open-source editor and reader, rendering tools, desktop applications, command-line tools, and a C++ library.

Search PDF text from the command line with pdfgrep, which supports GNU grep-style options such as recursive and case-insensitive search.

NewOCR converts scanned images and documents, including PDF and DjVu files, into editable text online.