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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Qpdf Tools – manage PDFs

November 24, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Qpdf Tools is an easy-to-use Qt interface for Ghostscript and QPDF. It lets you compress a PDF file, merge PDF files and more.

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Quick PDF Join – joins multiple PDF files together

November 23, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Quick PDF Join is a simple application that joins multiple PDF files together.

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cpdf – PDF Command Line Tools

November 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

cpdf (Coherent PDF Command Line Tools) is a set of tools that let you modify PDF files. It’s written in OCaml.

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PDF Juggler – mix, reorder and select PDF pages

November 16, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

PDF Juggler is a desktop tool to mix, reorder and select PDF pages. It’s a clone of PDF Shuffler and PDF Arranger

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PDF Tricks – small manipulations in PDF files

November 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

PDF Tricks is billed as a simple, efficient application for small manipulations in PDF files. It’s written in Vala.

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veraPDF – industry supported PDF/A validation

November 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

veraPDF is a purpose-built, open source, file-format validator covering all PDF/A and PDF/UA parts and conformance levels.

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PDF4QT – PDF editor

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

PDF4QT is a cross-platform PDF editor consisting of four applications.

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PDF Metadata Editor – simple GUI tool

November 8, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

PDF Metadata Editor is a simple tool you can use to edit the metadata (Author, Keywords, etc.) of a PDF document.

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