Top 5 PDF Readers/Editors (Adobe Acrobat Alternatives)

In this video, I talk about five open source/free PDF readers and editors.
I talk about three PDF readers and 2 PDF editors that are free to use.
Adobe acrobat is a powerful piece of software but the price might have people to think twice about using it.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:59 Built-In Browser PDF Reader
01:41 Okular
02:51 SumatraPDF
03:57 Inkscape
04:37 LibreOffice Draw
05:35 How to Use Draw
07:59 Outro

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[GeblockTT]

Thank you for Okular! After years of annoying experience with Adobe PDF, this is such a great alternative!

[Corné-oh]

The reason I stop using Adobe acrobat reader, is that they almost make it impossible to turn the view, which is something so simple it should be standard. It used to be an option in the view tab (both directions). Now it is only one direction in the context menu. Super annoying when dealing with drawings. So thank you very much for sharing. I just installed Sumatra which I already like, very simple very compact and with both the CW and CCW view rotation option in the menu bar.

[zadett]

If you are doing a lot of document scanning. Acrobat is the best for Batch processing from my own experience in production work. If you're doing little scanning any pdf apps that supports scanning will work fine.

[gumabrassempouy]

Bruh. Ive had libreoffice installed for a few years, and never bothered to check office draw lmao. thanks, i love it.

[LightOfReason]

I just installed Okular and it seems to work great, THANK YOU!

[JoseIgnacio-ue]

SumatraPDF I have on Linux Ubuntu 23.10 and it works. Thank you for the tips.

[wiiflix]

Brilliant video. Quick, complete advice and smooth presentation. I feel I’ve been introduced to the very best options out there. And not only that, I also got a test drive. You’ve saved me so much time and effort and I can’t thank you enough. Checking out your other content and subscribing.

[Majeskty]

I use Acrobat Pro 11 (stand alone) to do scanning of documents to save as a PDF (smallest file created at time, very compressed). I have also use the program to scan forms to create editable documents. As you mention it can be pricey and they don’t offer stand alone version anymore I believe. I have not found any alternative that works as good as version I am using thus far, but no further updates it is so old. Should you have other software options let me know to check it out. I am using an Epson 4400 scanner for the documents and it does a good job directly from within Acrobat Pro to do a custom scan and from there it will bring up the Epson scanning software interface. Thanks for the video!

[Oliver-kvmm]

I used to use adobe, Thanks for the suggestions

[ddkbciu]

good day how do i use pdf with tables on okular and do i use it to print a document vai printer cord not wireless

[lwk]

Super vedio work..., clear video, well explainedand clear voice.. One of the bestnuts and bolts video pictures I have seen on the internet (since 1997) . Well done ....Well said. I will check these out Thank You - LK .

[NV-NS]

this video saved my life getting projects done for school thank you so much!!!!

[martycli]

Thanks for that, I've been looking all day. Found a few online that I thought had worked then they wanted me to subscribe if I wanted to download the result. When you mentioned Libre Office Draw, which I already had downloaded, problem solved. Thanks a million.😀

[VincentBrunoKulesza]

the LibreOffice Drawing hack is insane ! Thank you so much, I was getting mad with Adobe

[lucianoramirez]

Thanks for Okular. I've been searching for an adobe acrobat replacement that really fit my needs.

[vwvilm]

Thanks to you, Adrian, I learned today of Okular. Definitely, in my view, the best PDF reader and editor. Besides it loads PDF files real quick. Very neat software.

[rickyleung]

Thank you very much for introducing LibreOffice draw and sharing what you have learned. Your video answers my question about PDF file editing for free. Thumbs up 👍

[DailyLifeSolution]

I have LibreOffice installed but did not know it could edit pdf. Thank you!

[configureitout]

Great video! I absolutely did not know Draw would work with pdfs. @Micheal Wright, finding a good solution for working with scanned documents would be great also. We have a lot of old scanned documents at work that could use touching up without having to completely retype them.

[Yeeeeeehaw]

Great video!
All the programs mentionned in this video are the top ones, you don't need to search for other alternatives.