What are PDF Readers?

PDF readers are software applications that enable users to access, open, and read PDFs. PDF readers are essential tools for being able to open and read PDF files. Advanced PDF readers may also support form filling, digital signatures, and interactive features embedded in PDF documents. PDF readers are widely used in both personal and professional settings to view reports, manuals, eBooks, contracts, and other documents that need to preserve formatting across different devices and platforms. Compare and read user reviews of the best PDF Readers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Apryse PDF SDK
    Apryse, previously known as PDFTron, takes document solutions to the next level, making work better and life simpler. Bring PDF viewing, annotating, editing, creation, and generation to any web, mobile, desktop or server framework or application. As a global leader in document processing technology, Apryse gives developers, enterprise customers and small businesses the tools they need to reach their document goals faster and easier. Our product portfolio includes Apryse SDK, Fluent, iText and XODO. Apryse technology works with all major platforms and a wide variety of unique file types.
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    Nutrient SDK
    Nutrient is the comprehensive solution for all your PDF needs, offering tools that effortlessly integrate and operate PDF functionality across any platform. 1. SDK PRODUCTS Integrate robust PDF functionality into iOS, Android, Windows, web (JavaScript), or any cross-platform technology, providing capabilities such as PDF viewing, markup, collaboration, and more. 2. LIBRARIES Utilize our potent .NET and Java libraries to boost your backend applications with batch processing of redactions and PDF forms, OCR’d scanned text, and editing of PDF documents, directly from your application server. 3. PROCESSOR Our dynamic PDF microservice, Processor, enables swift generation of PDFs from HTML, including HTML forms, along with Office-to-PDF conversions, OCR, redaction, and XFDF merging and exporting. 4. PDF API Use hosted PDF API to generate, convert, and modify PDF documents in your workflows. We manage the development and server administration, letting you focus on what you do best.
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    Adobe PDF Library SDK

    Adobe PDF Library SDK

    Datalogics Inc.

    Shorten development times & get to market faster with Adobe PDF Library. Global OEMs, SaaS and enterprise end-users rely on Adobe PDF Library to automate the creation, editing and management of PDFs. An Adobe partner, our SDK uses the same source code as Acrobat for stability, reliability and quality results. Adobe PDF Library gives developers flexible programming language and platform options, and is currently available in .NET, .NET Framework, Java and C/C++ on Windows, Linux, MacOS, as well as via NuGet and Maven. Our extensive documentation includes getting started guides, API references, and hundreds of sample code examples on GitHub to help developers precisely create and define PDF workflow solutions. Pricing for Adobe PDF Library is based on your business model & software usage. Free trial includes access to our PDF technology experts who can help with proof of concept as well as extend your free trial license if needed. Download and get started today!
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    MuPDF

    MuPDF

    Artifex Software

    Add powerful PDF functionality to all of your software application projects. MuPDF is a highly versatile, customizable PDF SDK that can be used as a PDF renderer, viewer, or library. The tiny footprint and lightning-fast performance make MuPDF a perfect fit for mobile browsers, eBooks, and embedded applications where small size is key. MuPDF supports a variety of interactive features including annotations, form filling, digital signatures, redactions, text search, and progressive loading. The wide range of input and output formats and our full range of platform support deliver a flexible solution to easily and successfully fulfill your project’s unique needs. MuPDF supports PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, EPUB, FictionBook 2 and CBZ. The MuPDF API easily integrates with all of the major platforms including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows. C++ and Python bindings have been added making it easy to use the MuPDF library from these languages.
    Starting Price: $749/per platform*
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    KDAN PDF Reader

    KDAN PDF Reader

    Kdan Mobile Software

    KDAN PDF Reader is your all-in-one PDF solution. Edit, sign, OCR scan, convert, annotate, and fill forms in PDF documents. With innovative AI features, speed up your document workflow! Designed for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, KDAN PDF Reader is trusted by millions for its comprehensive features and efficiency. **Spring Sale: Work smarter with KDAN PDF Reader—get 40% OFF Document 365 AI+, our AI-powered, cross-platform subscription. Offer ends May 8. AI FEATURE • Analyze and extract key information or tables from a PDF, then convert the data into spreadsheets for further analysis or visualization. • Chat with PDF and get document analysis, advice, new ideas, or content summary • Text redaction - automatically identify and block sensitive information in a document
    Starting Price: $59.99/year (billed annually)
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    ByteScout PDF Suite
    Fast to market engine to setup reading of unstructured PDF, images, scanned documents using powerful and easy to use extraction templates editor. Create templates in a visual editor with no programming or coding required. Supports fields, tables, pdf forms, multi-paged tables, unstructured tables. Use OCR engine with multi-language OCR support, re-use built-in AI-powered templates. Extract text, tables, images, attachments and other data from PDF, Reads Tables to CSV, Gets text from Images, Extracts Attachments, supports OCR with one or more languages. Handle noisy images and damaged texts transparently with the built-in OCR filters. Convert to common data structures like TXT, JSON, XLS, XLSX, CSV or XML. AI powered tables and document analysis functions.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per year
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    JPedal

    JPedal

    IDR Solutions

    JPedal is a versatile Java PDF Library for displaying, converting, printing, and parsing PDFs in Java applications. With over 20 years of development, it supports a wide range of PDF files. Key features include: -PDF to Image Conversion: Converts PDFs to images in various formats. -Java Swing PDF Viewer: Offers multi-page display, search, printing, and annotation editing. -Text and Image Extraction: High-quality extraction of text and images from PDFs. -PDF Search: Supports searching with wildcards and regular expressions. -Form & Annotation Handling: Supports XFA and AcroForms, enabling form data access and annotation editing. -Document Manipulation: Allows deleting, merging, splitting, and optimizing PDFs. -Security & Performance: Runs locally without third-party dependencies, processing PDFs up to 3x faster than alternatives.
    Starting Price: $950 one time fee
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    jPDFViewer

    jPDFViewer

    Qoppa Software

    Integrate a PDF reader right into your Java application or website. jPDFViewer is a self contained Java component that can be deployed in a Java application or a web application (in a web page as an applet, or a Java webstart application). Since it is written in Java, it allows your application to remain platform independent and run on Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. jPDFViewer can load documents from files on a local or network drive, from a URL and from Java input streams for documents that are generated runtime or come from other sources, such as a database. Main Features: Read and display PDF files on any platform that supports Java Print PDF files Fill interactive PDF forms View all markup annotations Validates and displays digital signatures Text search and selection Advanced tools: zoom, loupe, snapshot, pan and zoom Easy navigation with different views: thumbnails, bookmarks, annotations... Customizable toolbar and user interface Support for all image types
    Starting Price: $2,000
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