PDF Tools for Linux

June 18, 2011
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Evince : Default document viewer of GNOME. Some formats it supports; postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi.
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/

KPDF : Based on Xpdf, simple pdf viewer. It was in KDE 3 default.
http://kpdf.kde.org/

okular

 

Okular : Default document viewer of KDE 4. Based on KPDF. Supported by a lot format.
http://okular.kde.org/

 

 

Foxit Reader : Foxit software’s non-commercial production.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

Adobe Reader : Except viewing pdf, large scale and slow because of being used a lot of things different.

http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html

pdfmod

PdfMod : Through that tool, you can add page from another document to pdf documents. You can also change title, writer, subject and keywords of the document.
http://live.gnome.org/PdfMod

 

 

Xpdf : PDF viewer and library. It can decode LZW and read encrypted pdf.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

xournal : This software can sketch, take notes on pdf documents.
xournal
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/

ePDFView: A lightweight pdf viewer.
http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/

gPDFText : gPDFText is a text editor for GTK+ that opens PDF documents for ebook readers, converts the text contents into plain ASCII text, restores the original paragraphs and removes unwanted line breaks to allow easier zooming on the reader.
http://gpdftext.sourceforge.net/

PDF-Shuffler : It is used to divide, gather, crop and rearrange.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/

PDFedit : Complete editing of pdf documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript)
http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html

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