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cb2Bib – bibliographic reference extraction and management
cb2Bib extracts bibliographic data from PDFs and copied text, manages BibTeX collections and supports full-text search and citation tools.
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Bookworm – simple focused eBook reader
Bookworm is a focused Linux eBook reader with EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2 and comic support, annotations, library views and reading profiles.
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TCPDF – PHP class for generating PDF documents
TCPDF is a PHP library for generating PDF documents on-the-fly. TCPDF is free and open source software. Written by Nicola Asuni.
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Zotero – research and reference management
Zotero organises research sources, PDFs and annotations, with citation styles, bibliographies, word processor tools and library syncing.
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Excellent Utilities: KOReader – versatile document viewer
KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PDF Document Writer
Corel PDF Document Writer lets users convert documents, emails, images and other file types into a PDF for viewing and sharing. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Preview
Preview is an image viewer and PDF viewer for the macOS operating system. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat Reader is a proprietary PDF reader. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Excellent Utilities: PDF Mix Tool – perform common editing operations on PDF files
PDF Mix Tool is free and open source software that lets you perform common editing operations on PDF files.
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Best Free Android Apps: PDF Viewer Lite
PDF Viewer Lite is an easy-to-use PDF viewer for Android. The developer claims that the app is frugal with memory.
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PosteRazor – create your own posters
PosteRazor cuts raster images into multipage PDF documents.
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libHaru – library for generating PDF files
libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru is free and open source software published under the zlib license.
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Apache PDFBox – library for working with PDF documents
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. PDFBox is free and open source software.
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OpenPDF – 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. Fork of iText 4.
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Apache FOP – print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects
Apache FOP (Formatting Object Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.
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Poppler – library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib and qt5.
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PoDoFo – parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory
PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format).
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing PDFs – Week 9
In this week’s blog, Luke puts a wide range of PDF viewers under the microscope on the Raspberry Pi 4. How do they compare to the pre-installed solutions offered by Raspbian?
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