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Adobe's application and online service for creating, editing, converting, signing and sharing PDF files. A closed product from Adobe.
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling PDF | Partial | 94k | Other | Open core | Yes | TypeScript | v3.1.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| OCRmyPDF | Partial | 35k | MPL-2.0 | Open source | No | Python | v17.13.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| BentoPDF | Partial | 16k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | JavaScript | v2.8.8 | 2026-10-05 |
| PDF Arranger | Partial | 6k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Python | 1.14.0 | 2026-10-01 |
4 alternatives
#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere
Editing, merging, splitting, conversion, OCR and signing on your own server; some features sit in proprietary directories.
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
The OCR step only: makes scanned PDFs searchable.
The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
Covers page operations, conversion, forms and signing, without Acrobat's document cloud.
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
Covers Acrobat's page organisation only.