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Some interesting alternatives to Acrobat PDF Reader

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Local installation/hosting PDF Tools

PDFArranger a small Python application for manipulating PDFS.

It allows you to perform the following actions:

  • merge
  • split
  • re-arrange
  • crop

PDFgear in its free version, Gear offers the paid-for features of Adobe Reader, as well as basic functionality.

This allows you to perform the following actions:

  • Merge
  • Split
  • Compress
  • Modify
  • Fill form + Signature
  • Conversion (Word, Excel, PDF, Jpeg, Png, XML ...)
  • Add & Remove password

Stirling PDF is a self-hosted web-based PDF manipulation tool using Docker.

It offers the same features as PDFgear and much more.
See the full range of features on the Github page

Online Tools