PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript

•    Javascript

PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer that is built with HTML5. PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.

react-pdf - Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.

•    Javascript

Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images. Minimal demo page is included in sample directory.

xournalpp - Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support

•    C++

Recently we revisited the settings dialog to improve the feeling and usability. While doing that we also added better descriptions, for which we require new translations. If you would like to help us improve the localization of Xournal++, take a look at our Crowdin project. If you are interested in translating a new language, contact us on Gitter or create a new issue and we will unlock the language on Crowdin.

PDFEdit

•    C++

PDFedit is a free open source pdf editor and a library for manipulating PDF documents. It includes PDF manipulating library based on xpdf, GUI, set of command line tools and a pdf editor. You can use it to read, change and extract information from a PDF file. It is based on xpdf library.

pdfpc - A presenter console with multi-monitor support for PDF files.

•    Vala

pdfpc is a GTK based presentation viewer application which uses Keynote like 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, which can be created using nearly any of today's presentation software.

Buka - EBook Management

•    Javascript

Buka is a modern software that helps you manage your ebook at ease. With a simple, clean and straight-forward user interface, Buka aims to gather your ebooks for a reading experience without hassles. Buka currently support .PDF format with configurations that helps user focus more on the content. Of course you can always open .deb package with a package manager like Synaptic, Gnome Software or Gdebi then start the app instead of using command line options.

MuPDF - A Lightweight PDF, XPS and E-book viewer

•    C

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer. It renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on screen. It supports PDF 1.7 with transparency, encryption, hyperlinks, annotations, searching and more. The viewer is small, fast, yet complete. It supports many document formats, such as PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, CBZ, EPUB, and FictionBook 2. You can annotate PDF documents and fill out forms with the mobile viewers (this feature is coming soon to the desktop viewer as well).

Sumatrapdf - PDF, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ and CBR viewer for Windows

•    C

Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books

•    C

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books. It can quickly search and open any file you have previously interacted with using sioyek. It supports document search and navigate to referenced figure or bibliography item. It has also support for Bookmarking pages, Highlighting text and lot more.

Evince - Document Viewer

•    C

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application. Evince is specifically designed to support the file following formats: PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt).

Zathura - Document Viewer

•    C

zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer based on the girara user interface library and several document libraries. zathura is capable of exporting images and attachments, opening encrypted documents and printing them. You can search through the document or browse its index or checkout the document meta information.

Poppler - PDF rendering library

•    Linux

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

Okular - Universal Document Viewer by KDE

•    C

Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. It combines the excellent functionalities with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.

vue-pdf - vue.js pdf viewer

•    Javascript

since v2.x, the script is exported as esm. The url of the pdf file. src may also be a string|TypedArray|DocumentInitParameters|PDFDataRangeTransport for more details, see PDFJS.getDocument().

WPF PDF Viewer

WPF PDF Viewer

document-viewer - Document Viewer is a highly customizable document viewer for Android.

•    Java

Document Viewer is a highly customizable document viewer for Android.Collaboration with electronic publication sites and access to online ebook catalogs is allowed by the supported OPDS protocol.

react-pdf-js - A React component to wrap PDF.js

•    Javascript

react-pdf-js provides a component for rendering PDF documents using PDF.js. Written for React 15/16 and ES2015 using the Airbnb style guide.

ng2-pdf-viewer - PDF Viewer Component for Angular 2+

•    Javascript

Angular2+ component for rendering PDF

pqiv - Powerful image viewer with minimal UI

•    C

pqiv is a powerful GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI. It is highly customizable, can be fully controlled from scripts, and has support for various file formats including PDF, Postscript, video files and archives. It is optimized to be quick and responsive. It comes with support for animations, slideshows, transparency, VIM-like key bindings, automated loading of new images as they appear, external image filters, image preloading, and much more.

react-pdf-annotator - Set of React components for PDF annotation

•    Javascript

react-pdf-annotator provides annotation experience for PDF documents on web built on top of PDF.js. Text and rectangular highlights are supported. Highlight data format is independent of the viewport, making it suitable for saving on the server. See demo/src/App.js for React component API example.