Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Poppler gives access to the following binary programs:

• pdfattach

• pdfdetach

• pdffonts

• pdfimages

• pdfinfo

• pdfseparate

• pdfsig

• pdftocairo

• pdftohtml

• pdftoppm

• pdftops

• pdftotext

• pdfunite

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

MuPDF is a C library that implements a PDF and XPS parsing and rendering engine. It is used primarily to render pages into bitmaps, but also provides support for other operations such as searching and listing the table of contents and hyperlinks.

The library ships with a rudimentary X11 viewer, and a set of command line tools for batch rendering pdfdraw, rewriting files pdfclean, and examining the file structure pdfshow.

Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus.

PoDoFo is a C++ library and set of command-line tools to work with the PDF file format. It can parse PDF files and load them into memory, and makes it easy to modify them and write the changes to disk. It is primarily useful for applications that wish to do lower level manipulation of PDF, such as extracting content or merging files.

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Pdfgrep searches in pdf files for strings matching a regular expression. Support some GNU grep options as file name output, page number output, optional case insensitivity, count occurrences, color highlights and search in multiple files.

pydyf is a low-level PDF generator written in Python and based on PDF specification 1.7.

PoDoFo is a C++ library and set of command-line tools to work with the PDF file format. It can parse PDF files and load them into memory, and makes it easy to modify them and write the changes to disk. It is primarily useful for applications that wish to do lower level manipulation of PDF, such as extracting content or merging files.

unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies.

Its main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before performing OCR.

PDFCrack is a simple tool for recovering passwords from PDF documents that use the standard security handler.

PDF Arranger is a small application which allows one to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.

PDF Arranger was formerly known as PDF-Shuffler.

Paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file through the Pango Cairo back end.

Xournal++ is a hand note taking software written in C++ with the target of flexibility, functionality and speed. Stroke recognizer and other parts are based on Xournal code.

Xournal++ features:

• Support for Pen pressure, e.g., Wacom Tablet

• Support for annotating PDFs

• Fill shape functionality

• PDF Export (with and without paper style)

• PNG Export (with and without transparent background)

• Map different tools / colors etc. to stylus buttons / mouse buttons

• Sidebar with Page Previews with advanced page sorting, PDF Bookmarks and Layers (can be individually hidden, editing layer can be selected)

• enhanced support for image insertion

• Eraser with multiple configurations

• LaTeX support

• bug reporting, autosave, and auto backup tools

• Customizable toolbar, with multiple configurations, e.g., to optimize toolbar for portrait / landscape

• Page Template definitions

• Shape drawing (line, arrow, circle, rectangle)

• Shape resizing and rotation

• Rotation snapping every 45 degrees

• Rect snapping to grid

• Audio recording and playback alongside with handwritten notes

• Multi Language Support, Like English, German, Italian...

• Plugins using LUA Scripting

pdfpc is a presentation viewer application which uses multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation. It is able to show a normal presentation window on one screen, while showing a more sophisticated overview on the other one providing information like a picture of the next slide, as well as the left over time till the end of the presentation. The input files processed by pdfpc are PDF documents.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers.

fbida contains a few applications for viewing and editing images on the framebuffer.

A4PDF is a low-level library for generating PDF files. It does not have a document model and instead uses PDF primitives directly. It uses LittleCMS for color management but otherwise does not convert data in any way.

This package provides a PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files.

pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.

This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed pdfposter was inspired by poster.

flyer-composer can be used to prepare one- or two-sided flyers for printing on one sheet of paper.

Imagine you have designed a flyer in A6 format and want to print it using your A4 printer. Of course, you want to print four flyers on each sheet. This is where Flyer Composer steps in, creating a PDF which holds your flyer four times. If you have a second page, Flyer Composer can arrange it the same way - even if the second page is in a separate PDF file.

This package contains both the command line tool and the gui too.

Zathura is a customizable document viewer. It provides a minimalistic interface and an interface that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

This package provides Python bindings for the Qt5 interface of the Poppler PDF rendering library.

libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru does not support reading and editing of existing PDF files.