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miro – PDF viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a native pdf viewer for Linux (Wayland/X11), macOS, and Windows with configurable keybindings.

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hygg – minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hygg is a minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.

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pdfcpu – PDF processing library

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pdfcpu is a PDF processing library written in Go that supports encryption and offers both an API and a command-line interface (CLI).

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Gorae – TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Gorae is a terminal-first TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs—fast browsing, solid metadata, quick search, and mouse support.

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dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.

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Dangerzone – make PDFs safe

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Dangerzone takes potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

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tdf – TUI-based PDF viewer

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

tdf is a terminal-based PDF viewer. Designed to be performant, very responsive, and work well with even very large PDFs.

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24 Best Free and Open Source Linux PDF Viewers

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Roundup

The PDF file format is one of the most common file formats in use today. This article recommends the best open source PDF viewers.

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PDF

npdfr – command-line PDF reader

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

npdfr (ncurses PDF reader) is a command-line PDF reader prioritizing fast searches.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Diff Tools

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We look at GUI tools that let you see the difference between two files or two versions of the same file.

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PDF

apvlv – document viewer

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

apvlv is a PDF/EPUB/TXT/FB2/MOBI/CBZ/HTML …viewer and it behaves like the Vim text editor.

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PDF

20 Useful Free and Open Source PDF Tools

June 15, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on useful PDF tools which can help you create PDFs as well as small utilities/libraries that help you work with PDF.

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PDF

IceBox converts images into a PDF file

April 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

IceBox is a simple and intuitive desktop application that allows you to convert multiple images into a single, high-quality PDF document.

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PDF

plakativ stretches PDF or raster image across multiple pages

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, GUI

plakativ is software to stretch a PDF document or raster image across multiple pages. It’s written in Python.

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PDF

JasperReports – reporting engine written in Java

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

JasperReports is a widely used free and open source business intelligence and reporting engine. It is a reporting library.

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PDF

Densify – compress PDF files using Ghostscript

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Densify is a GUI program that simplifies compressing PDF files with Ghostscript.

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Reading

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speed Reading Tools

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Books, Roundup, Utilities

The software featured in here is based on spritzing. Read text without moving your eyes, and therefore rapidly increase your reading speed.

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PDF

19 Useful Free and Open Source PDF Manipulation Tools

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the best free and open source PDF manipulation tools offering some genuinely useful software.

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OCR Tools

Rescribe – desktop tool for performing OCR

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Rescribe is an easy-to-use desktop tool for performing OCR on image files, PDFs and Google Books.

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