
View PDF with a browser-like interface, convert, manipulate, print and manage files in PDF.Ĭonverts PDF to raster images and vice versa.Īndroid, iOS, iPadOS, ChromeOS and Online Converters – to allow users to convert PDF files to other formats.Editors – to allow users to edit or otherwise modify PDF files.
Readers – to allow users to open, read and print PDF files. Creators – to allow users to convert other file formats to PDF. Extracting embedded text is a common feature, but other applications perform optical character recognition (OCR) to convert imaged text to machine-readable form, sometimes by using an external OCR module. Some software allows redaction, removing content irreversibly for security. The distinction between the various functions is not entirely clear-cut for example, some viewers allow adding of annotations, signatures, etc.
This is a list of links to articles on software used to manage Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.