| 1 |  Adobe Acrobat Reader (64-bit)The free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, signing, and commenting on PDF documents. | 26.002.22031 | Proprietary | October 14, 2026 | 866.5 MB | 694.6M ↓ |
| 2 |  NAPS2Scan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible. | 8.6.0 | Open source | October 26, 2026 | — | 701.7K ↓ |
| 3 |  wkhtmltoxConvert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit) | 0.12.6-1 | Open source | October 3, 2021 | — | 556.2K ↓ |
| 4 |  PDF24 CreatorA free and easy to use PDF solution with many features | 11.30.1 | Proprietary | April 21, 2026 | 521.3 MB | 4.2M ↓ |
| 5 |  MiKTeXA modern TeX distribution for Windows, Linux and macOS. | 25.12 | Free | January 12, 2026 | 148.9 MB | 514.9K ↓ |
| 6 |  Tesseract-OCR - open source OCR engineTesseract Open Source OCR Engine. | 5.4.0.20240606 | Open source | December 18, 2024 | — | 24.1K ↓ |
| 7 |  diff-pdfA simple tool for visually comparing two PDF files | 0.5.3 | Open source | July 29, 2026 | — | 6.9K ↓ |
| 8 |  pympressPympress is a PDF presentation tool designed for dual-screen setups such as presentations and public talks. Highly configurable, fully-featured, and portable. | 1.8.6 | Open source | May 6, 2025 | — | 5.5K ↓ |
| 9 |  KillerPDFPDF editor for Windows. No account, no subscription, no telemetry. | 1.8.91 | Open source | October 14, 2026 | — | 917 ↓ |
| 10 |  Stirling-PDFA locally hosted one-stop shop for all your PDF needs | 3.2.2 | Open source | October 24, 2026 | — | 32 ↓ |
| 11 |  CubePDFCubePDF is a Windows virtual printer that allows you to convert to PDF when you need it from any application, including Web browsers, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint (PPT), bitmap files (PNG, JPEG, BMP), etc. | 4.3.7 | Open source | September 10, 2026 | — | 8.5K ↓ |
| 12 |  PdfCraftThe PDF workbench; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, rebuilt in pure Rust | 0.9.0 | Open source | October 21, 2026 | — | 704 ↓ |
| 13 |  sioyekSioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on technical books and research papers. | 2.0.0 | Open source | February 22, 2024 | — | 661 ↓ |
| 14 | AasciidoctorjAsciidoctor integration & API for Java and other JVM languages | 3.0.1 | Open source | | 76.7 MB | 71.5K ↓ |
| 15 |  PDFill FREE PDF Editor BasicFree PDF Tools. | 15.0 | Proprietary | June 20, 2021 | 25.9 MB | 55.7K ↓ |
| 16 |  WinScan2PDFWinScan2PDF allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner. | 9.39 | Proprietary | September 10, 2025 | 200 KB | 22.9K ↓ |
| 17 | PPDFtk ServerA command-line tool for working with PDFs, commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs. | 2.02 | Open source | June 5, 2022 | 3.1 MB | 16.2K ↓ |
| 18 | Ppandoc-crossrefPandoc filter for cross-references | 0.3.26 | Open source | | — | 7.6K ↓ |
| 19 |  PDF Shaper FreePDF Software for Home and BusinessSecure, offline document processingDesigned for simplicity and efficiency. | 15.4 | Proprietary | November 22, 2025 | — | 4K ↓ |
| 20 |  PDF CombineCoolUtils PDF Combiner is software that allows you to merge PDFs offline without uploading your files to any third-party servers. | 8.1.0.19 | Proprietary | October 19, 2026 | 113.7 MB | 2.7K ↓ |
| 21 |  PDF Shaper PremiumPDF Software for Home and BusinessSecure, offline document processingDesigned for simplicity and efficiency. | 15.3 | Proprietary | September 3, 2025 | — | 2K ↓ |
| 22 |  NAPS2 PrereleaseScan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible. | 8.0b3 | Open source | March 30, 2026 | — | ★ 4.7K |
| 23 |  Batch Word Replace Free EditionReplace, insert new content, remove existing text, change text style and formatting in 1000s of Word and text documents in bulk. Save results and convert between various document formats: docx, doc, pdf, odt, rtf, wpd, txt, xps, html, and others. | 5.6 | Proprietary | October 27, 2021 | — | 1.3K ↓ |
| 24 | Sscantailor-advancedInteractive post-processing tool for scanned pages | 1.0.16 | Open source | | — | 1.3K ↓ |
| 25 |  AgenteroAgent-friendly reference management. | 0.12.0 | Open source | October 19, 2026 | — | ★ 1K |
| 26 |  mutoolAn all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files. | 1.28.5 | Open source | October 24, 2026 | — | ★ 3K |
| 27 |  ToolsMonk250+ tools for PDFs, images, text, SEO and everyday calculations, in one desktop app. | 1.1.28 | Proprietary | October 24, 2026 | — | 97 ↓ |
| 28 |  MiroA native pdf viewer for Windows, macOS and Linux (Wayland/X11) with configurable keybindings. | 0.12.0 | Open source | October 19, 2026 | — | ★ 555 |
| 29 |  PDFGeekMerge, split, extract, rotate, watermark and password-protect PDFs on your own machine. | 1.1.1 | Open source | September 26, 2026 | — | 22 ↓ |
| 30 |  LectorA simple PDF Reader built using Electron and PDF.js | 1.1.0 | Open source | July 21, 2021 | — | ★ 226 |
| 31 |  PDFAppsFast, offline, subscription-free PDF editor | 1.15.1 | Open source | October 11, 2026 | — | ★ 26 |
| 32 |  PDF ZusammenfügenLokales Tool zum PDF Zusammenfügen ohne Upload, ohne Konto und ohne Wasserzeichen. | 0.1.1 | Open source | March 17, 2026 | — | 36 ↓ |
| 33 |  PrintBridgeA local print bridge for web applications. | 0.2.6 | Open source | August 20, 2026 | — | ★ 58 |
| 34 |  pdfannots2jsonExtracts annotations from PDF and converts them to a JSON list. | 1.0.16 | Open source | December 16, 2024 | — | ★ 64 |
| 35 |  miPDFsign CommunityFree AGPL edition of miPDFsign — a tablet signature app that embeds handwritten signatures with biometric data as PAdES into PDFs. | 1.0.1 | Open source | August 19, 2026 | — | 14 ↓ |
| 36 |  GNOME Papers PDF readerA modern, native Windows port of the GNOME Papers document viewer for PDFs, DjVu, Comic Books, and TIFFs. | 51.beta.1 | Open source | August 24, 2026 | — | ★ 22 |
| 37 |  LaTeX EditorNotepad++-style LaTeX editor with instant PDF preview and SyncTeX | 1.0.19 | Open source | October 15, 2026 | — | ★ 33 |
| 38 |  PDF MARINA free PDF editor for Windows with true redaction that removes the pixels, plus page editing, drawing measurement, watermarks, page numbers, passwords and compression. | 0.1.2 | Proprietary | October 1, 2026 | — | ★ 31 |
| 39 |  schild.reportschild.report is a modern solution for creating reports with data from the Schild database, which can completely replace the report designer supplied with Schild. | 2.6.125 | Open source | August 14, 2023 | — | ★ 9 |
| 40 |  quicklookquicklook 是使用 Tauri v2 开发的 Windows 平台的文件预览工具 | 0.23.0 | Open source | August 7, 2026 | — | ★ 15 |
| 41 |  PDF Architect 9Powerful PDF editing and management solution for enhanced document workflow. | 9.1.102.23129 | Proprietary | May 26, 2026 | 1.1 MB | 7 ↓ |
| 42 |  GlyphPDFA privacy-first PDF workstation for Windows -- no telemetry, no cloud, no subscription. | 1.0.0 | Open source | June 17, 2026 | — | ★ 16 |
| 43 |  pstoeditpstoedit - conversion of PostScript files to other vector formats | 4.3.0.0 | Open source | December 14, 2025 | — | ★ 8 |
| 44 |  Resume BuilderOffline resume builder with 25 templates, live PDF preview and ATS keyword analysis. | 1.3.0 | Open source | October 15, 2026 | — | ★ 4 |
| 45 | PPDFluxPDF document, content and data extraction tool. | 6.2.67 | Proprietary | July 16, 2025 | 113.8 MB | — |
| 46 | DDr.ExplainHelp authoring tool to quickly create online manuals, help files, user guides and documentation. | 7.2.1394 | Proprietary | September 15, 2026 | — | — |
| 47 |  papioAcquire and validate scholarly PDFs for your reference library | 0.22.1 | Open source | September 23, 2026 | — | ★ 2 |
| 48 |  Auto-RotateAutomatically deskew and turn upright every page of a PDF. | 0.1.1 | Open source | August 21, 2026 | — | ★ 3 |
| 49 |  MakeBookCLIMakeBookCLI | 8.2024.822.523 | Open source | February 20, 2025 | — | ★ 3 |
| 50 |  MicaPDFPDF viewer for Windows with Mica backdrop, annotations, and export | 2.2.1 | Open source | October 22, 2026 | — | ★ 3 |