Best Free PDF Tools Gizmos Freeware. Introduction. A PDF tool comes in handy when you need to deal with PDF files such as to merge or split pages, add a header, footer or watermark, highlight or annotate PDF documents, or convert from other files to PDFs or vice versa. Nitro Pdf Reader Portable Apps Linux' title='Nitro Pdf Reader Portable Apps Linux' />Did you think twice before you installed Adobe Reader Its the most widely used PDF reader, but not necessarily the best. We went out to find the best PDF readers. Looks like Nitro PDFtoWord and PDFtoExcel are no longer free. Ive used them both successfully in the past, but now the screen is asking for a password. Noregistration upload of files up to 250MB. Not available in some countries. In this review, multipurpose programs offering general features for merging PDF files, splitting or re ordering pages, etc within a single application are discussed under General Tools. Those designed for a more specific task are grouped under Specific Tools. Index. Our Rating License Free Limited featuresPlatformsDownload Windows Desktop Version reviewed na. Jojo Yee. Our Rating 55. Summary Clean and nice user interface, include most features such as merge, split, reorder, rotate, header and footer with page number, watermark, encrypt and decrypt, convert PDF to images or vice versa, convert Post. An option to notify special features in the PDF file like security restrictions, digital certificates, or form fields is also available in Nitro Reader. Sumatra PDF is a free and opensource document viewer, it supports many document formats including Portable Document Format PDF, Microsoft Compiled HTML Help CHM. In our 2016 review of the top free nonadobe PDF reader, we found 5 we could recommend with the best of these as good as any commercial product. Are you a coder or whitehat hacker looking to make some money on the side Bug bounty hunting might be the perfect gig for you. Script to PDF. Short of features provided by Specific Tools. Read more. License Free Limited featuresClean and nice user interface, include most features such as merge, split, reorder, rotate, header and footer with page number, watermark, encrypt and decrypt, convert PDF to images or vice versa, convert Post. Script to PDF. Short of features provided by Specific Tools. Read full review. License Free Limited featuresPlatformsDownload Windows Desktop Version reviewed na. Jojo Yee. Summary A collection of useful PDF tools including merge and split PDFs, encrypt and decrypt PDF, extract text and images, convert to and from images, etc. Convert PDF to Word RTF up to three pages, specifying pages to split PDFs encountered an error when tried. Bundled with an optional toolbar. Read more. License Free Limited featuresA collection of useful PDF tools including merge and split PDFs, encrypt and decrypt PDF, extract text and images, convert to and from images, etc. Convert PDF to Word RTF up to three pages, specifying pages to split PDFs encountered an error when tried. Bundled with an optional toolbar. Windows Xp Professional Jpn Sp2 Carbon. Read full review. License Free. PlatformsDownload Windows Desktop Version reviewed na. Jojo Yee. Summary Merge and reorder pdf pages in one go, supports split, rotate, background stamp, encrypt, etc. Text watermark not supported, fewer features than PDFill PDF Tools. Read more. License Free. Merge and reorder pdf pages in one go, supports split, rotate, background stamp, encrypt, etc. Text watermark not supported, fewer features than PDFill PDF Tools. Read full review. License Free Limited featuresPlatformsDownload Linux Mac OS Windows Desktop Version reviewed na. Jojo Yee. Summary Supports visual organizing and re ordering PDF pages in addition to the direct page number input. Visual document composer occasionally encountered some errors. Read more. License Free Limited featuresSupports visual organizing and re ordering PDF pages in addition to the direct page number input. Visual document composer occasionally encountered some errors. Read full review. License Free. PlatformsDownload Linux Version reviewed na. Jojo Yee. Summary Easy to re order, rotate, crop or remove pages, split or merge pdf files in interactive user interface, small size. Lacking some features available in other pdf tools. Read more. License Free. Easy to re order, rotate, crop or remove pages, split or merge pdf files in interactive user interface, small size. Lacking some features available in other pdf tools. Oxford Handbook Plastic Reconstructive Surgery'>Oxford Handbook Plastic Reconstructive Surgery. Read full review. License Free Open sourcePlatformsDownload Linux Windows Desktop Version reviewed na. Jojo Yee. Summary Support merge, split, reorder, rotate, watermark, format multiple pages, change page numbers, encrypt, add attachments, set viewer preference and metadata. User interface less intuitive. Read more. License Free Open sourceSupport merge, split, reorder, rotate, watermark, format multiple pages, change page numbers, encrypt, add attachments, set viewer preference and metadata. User interface less intuitive. Read full review. The free applications reviewed in this section are helpful for their specific functions mostly not covered by the General Tools. Edit a PDF File. PDF Import for Apache Open. Office formerly Oracle PDF Import Extension lets you create a hybrid pdf file with Open. Office Writer. A hybrid pdf file is basically a pdf file containing an embedded odf source file. The beauty of this type of file is that not only can it be viewed with a normal PDF viewer, it can also be opened for full text editing with Open. Office Writer in 1. See this article A PDF File Allows Editing in 1. Layout Accuracy for details. Able. Word, which is a capable word processor, can be used to open pdf file directly and edit small portions of text, add or remove images and so on before saving back to the pdf file. Its free for personal and even commercial use. Libre. Office or Open. Office Draw is also another free option available for such purpose. Convert PDF to Text. Some PDF to TXT Converter is a light tool which preserves text and layout while supporting drag and drop, batch conversion and encrypted pdf files. Free. OCR is a good scan and OCR Optical Character Recognition program which lets you extract text from scanned PDF documents. Moreover, images from scanned PDF documents can be selected and placed on the clipboard. For an online OCR solution, try Free OCR. Convert PDF to WordExcel. Free online conversion is available from Nitro PDF for PDF to Word Converter and PDF to Excel Converter. Choose the file you need, click the Convert button and check your inbox for the converted files. Convert Various Formats to PDF7 PDF Maker is a powerful tool to convert a wide range of formats to PDF. It can convert to PDF files generated by Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Libre. Office, Open. Office, Star. Office, Maths and Auto. Cad, and will also convert images, text or web based files. If you are using office applications such as Libre. Office or Open. Office, or word processors such as Jarte, they come with a feature to export files to PDF. Newer versions of Microsoft Office also allow a free add in for saving documents as PDF. Whether you choose to use 7 PDF Maker or any of these applications, you should find that clickable hyperlinks and bookmarks are nicely conserved in the converted or exported PDF files, along with the original page layouts. An alternative approach is to install a virtual PDF printer, such as Bullzip, which will print out PDF files of text or other contents. Note, however, that clickable hyperlinks and bookmarks will not usually be preserved in the resulting PDF file. If you only need to convert image files to PDF, my favorite is i. It works even better than the tool Convert Images to PDF included in PDFill PDF Tools. Download and unzip i. How about converting files to PDF online PDF Web Portal and some other websites such as Document Converter e. XPress also offer online conversion to PDF. Some PDF Images Extract is a good choice. You can extract all images from several PDF files by batch or pull images from selected pages in a PDF file. Images can be saved in jpg, bmp, png, tiff, gif or tga formats. It costs no money to use this application, but it is nagware which prompts a dialogue to ask for registration with payment each time you use it. Annotate PDF Documents. PDF XChange Viewer enables you to annotate PDF documents. It allows a variety of operations, including highlighting, crossing or underlining text drawing shapes stamping and filling out PDF forms with a built in typewriter insert, edit or rename bookmarks. Unfortunately some advanced features are available only to the paid for Pro version. The good news is that now Foxit Reader has made this particular feature, together with most other basic annotating tools, available for free. If youre looking for an alternative, Foxit Reader is definitely a good choice. For Linux users, Okular is a good try.