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Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free tool for viewing documents that have been stored in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Adobe Reader

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MuPDF pdfFiller Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) Atril Geekersoft PDF Editor PDFsam PDF-LIB Qoppa PDF Studio Viewer

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Adobe Reader are MuPDF, pdfFiller, and Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js). One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. 1
    MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Tools #PDF Editor 21 social mentions

  2. A comprehensive online document management platform that provides the services of an online editor, cloud storage platform, and a signature request manager, all in one package.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $8.0 / Monthly (annual commitment)

    #Form Builder #PDF Tools #eSignature 7 social mentions

  3. PDF Viewer (aka pdf.js) is a new revolutionary extension using web standard technologies that...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Tools #PDF Editor 26 social mentions

  4. 4
    Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. Atril is a fork of Evince.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #PDF Tools #Office & Productivity 22 social mentions

  5. Professional and comprehensive PDF conversion editing processing software, in addition to supporting PD editing and conversion, also supports a variety of PDF merge/split/signature operations, which can meet our daily work and life various PDF editi…
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $19.99 / Monthly

    #Document Management #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Tools

  6. 6
    PDFsam Basic, a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #PDF Tools #PDF Converter #PDF Editor 32 social mentions

  7. The simplest PDF viewer. Safe (doesn't require permissions), lightweight (just 6,9MB) and modern.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Tools #PDF Editor

  8. Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #HTML To PDF #PDF Conversion API #PDF Tools 15 social mentions

  9. Free PDF Reader for Windows, Mac, Linux.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    • Free Trial

    #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Tools #PDF Editor

  10. 10
    Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #PDF Tools #iPhone 22 social mentions

  11. 11
    WebODF is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to add Open Document Format (ODF) support to your...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Office Suites #PDF Tools 2 social mentions

  12. 12
    A simple and modern eBook viewer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PDF Readers And Editors #Ebooks #eBook Reader 12 social mentions

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