Top 5 PDF Readers/Editors (Adobe Acrobat Alternatives)

[@GeblockTT]

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

[@gumabrassempouy2317]

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

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm glad I could help. I definitely appreciate it.

[@LightOfReason7]

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

[@Corné-o6h]

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.

[@martycli9299]

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.😀

[@JoseIgnacio-u8e]

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

[@VincentBrunoKulesza]

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

[@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.

[@NV-NS]

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

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm glad I could help. Thank you very much for your kind words.

[@saulfernando557]

THIS CHANNEL IS GOLD

[@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.

[@lwk3196]

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 .

[@gl35]

Thank you very much for this information. I learned something new, especially about Libre Draw. You saved me money.

[@flabbybum9562]

Great video - nicely presented, and seriously useful content.

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

[@Yeeeeeehaw]

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

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

[@DailyLifeSolution]

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

[@TopDog8762]

Thank you for the video, SumatraPDF seems to meet my simple needs.

[@ajaikrishnan8834]

This was really awesome. Draw was really helpful for me as I was not able to edit a 217 page pdf , this was very simple with the option of find and replace all as I had to replace one wor draft from all 217 pages.I am using Sejda, but it does not support more than 200 pages. I used I love pdf as well, but it does not have option to replace all. Awesome Adrian, thank you very much

[@IvanConstantino]

Obsolutely amazing video, here in Brazil is out of question to pay US15/month to use a PDF editor... Thanks for the tips bro!

[@limamikesierra]

libreoffice is the one I was looking for :). Thanks

[@kabelogaosupelwe425]

Great video bro, I had libre office but didn't know that it can edit pdfs ❤

[@FranksCreativeCorner]

Adrian: "So let's get into the pdf editors. The first one is gonna be Inkscape..." Me: Say no more

[@dhananjaykumarray9019]

do more of this!! this is amazing

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you. I appreciate the encouragement.

[@aprilfuel634]

Such good information, thank you. Sumatra is just as you described, light and easy. Thank you

[@AdrianReddix]

You are so welcome! I appreciate it.

[@stevearodgers]

Thanks Adrian! Very helpful to know LibreOffice Draw edits PDFs.

[@AdrianReddix]

My pleasure! Thank you for watching

[@GreatDogs]

This was super useful - Thank you!

[@SeanAbbey]

Thanks boss, brilliant one brother! Liked & subscribed Stay Strong and safe

[@luisevidal]

Great video. Liked and subscribed. Keep them coming.

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much.

[@FrankTenpennyy]

thanks for the tips, very helpful :)

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

[@configureitout9489]

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.

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you. The scanned document issue has me intrigued. Researching is one of my favorite things to do.

[@mahfeww]

Hey, I appreciate this... I too left adobe for Affinity and needed a PDF reader. Thank you!!

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words.

[@bignj_969]

Bro! it's Amazing You solved my problem! Thanks!!!

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you. I'm glad I could help.

[@dchungmanson]

great video direct to the point thanks

[@ZZFilm]

Great video. Thanks a bunch my dude.

[@Parlygoa]

all I want to do is add my personal bookmarks and combine pdfs together.. but 15 $/a month is way expensive for me.. !!

[@asifshamsi5630]

Foxit Phantom pdf Business (Foxit Phantom pdf pro now)is my pdf editor of choice.

[@AdrianReddix]

That's a pretty solid one actually

[@nicolaslavinicki4029]

Awesome video bro! Thanks a lot!

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much

[@truthgaming2296]

thank you for ur recommendation sir :)

[@paulagulley1217]

Thank you,this helps me greatly. My windows freases. I need a pdf editor for lunix. You just solved my problem 😃

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm glad I could help. Thank you for watching. I appreciate it.

[@geoffphil]

Thanks for a very good, informative video. I use Nitro pdf (a paid, but very solid program that makes it essy to merge pdfs and edit in other ways). I might try Libre Office Draw now. Thanks again.

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you so much.

[@sroberts6940]

just a bit of info Okular is not pronounced with long O at the beginning...it begins with OCC short O sound with the k being pronounced as hard C...thus it begins OCC...the ular is pronounce long U, Ulare...OCCUlar...all together is is ocular like the Eye or vision!!!

[@AdrianReddix]

Ok

[@mcmurdo5]

Thanks, very helpful! I think it's pronounced the same as the word "ocular" though, just spelled with a "k" instead. (Meaning having to do with eyes or vision.) So...AWK-yoo-ler.

[@ademkarakaya1610]

Thanks for that

[@ahmeda5394]

Thank you bro you help me so much 👍

[@AdrianReddix]

No problem at all. Thank you for watching.

[@ahmeda5394]

@@AdrianReddix you're welcome 🤗

[@rihaoliang3118]

Thank you for this!

[@space_audits]

Okular is really nice.

[@AdrianReddix]

It really is. I like it a lot.

[@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!

[@RaginYak]

fantastic, grateful adrain !

[@AdrianReddix]

My pleasure!

[@ve4043]

All I need to do is just download the PDF. I don’t see that option. Anyone help

[@VanessaSmithNMA50]

EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!

[@afezahrahman1088]

Thank you for sharing!

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you for watching

[@muhammedmuha4846]

i like libre...but it has a problem with selection i want to select only images and delete certain thing....its just so hard to do it in that app...i cant find a good free one..i found wodershare pdfelement but the water mark ruins it

[@ambroseedwards8002]

Can you use Libra office draw for timesheets and signatures?

[@AbdallahElshimy]

thank you from Egypt

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you for watching. I greatly appreciate it.

[@AbdallahElshimy]

@@AdrianReddix you deserve more ❤❤

[@michaelwright2986]

One of the things I do a lot with a PDF editor is extracting a range of pages to a separate document (fat 19th c. book from Internet Archive: take out a chapter and distribute it to a few people.) Does Draw do that? I find PDF-XChange Editor is good for that, and a lot of other things I do (like putting comments on a PDF), even though the interface isn't the prettiest; the free version is good enough for my needs. Windows only, but.

[@AdrianReddix]

If I understand correctly, it does but not as cleanly as PDF X-Change. You would have to print the document. When the print screen comes up, (im assuming you are on a windows device) select Microsoft Print to PDF. Under that you can select your range and then click print. Save it where you want.

[@michaelwright2986]

@@AdrianReddix Ahh, nifty. I had a quick look, and I think LO Draw looks great for PDFs created from a file, so you have the text incorporated in the PDF: I mostly work on PDFs created by scanning from old books (out of copyright versions of texts I want), and it doesn't look quite as convenient for that. But it would be great for in the office, whether that office is Libre or not (most aren't). Thanks for the info.

[@AdrianReddix]

@@michaelwright2986 That's good to know. I didn't think of scanned text and how that would fair in the programs. I appreciate the experiment. It really got my gears turning.

[@dineshpal6653]

Nice video bro👌❤

[@drof2th]

Thanks! I tried Office Libre Draw and it only opens one page of a multi page PDF. Sad!

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm not sure why that happened. When I open a multi page PDF, I see all the pages. Is there a pages panel on the side?

[@drof2th]

Thank you immensely Adrian! I tried further after reading your response and found stupidly, that I had to page down! Now Office Libre is my favorite PDF editor!!! Was sad and now happy!!!

[@AdrianReddix]

@@drof2th I'm glad to hear that. I'm excited I could help. Thank you for coming back and letting me know how it went. I really appreciate you.

[@barbdennis7979]

Having trouble with deleting several paragraphs and moving up from one page to the the previous where I deleted paragraphs. Any ideas? Adobe.

[@ELWhite-jg1ct]

Thanks Adrian 4 tips, how can I set up Libra to scroll thru Categories in a Online Desktop Law Book,it has 1049 pages🤔

[@saneeshnk7574]

thank you so much

[@AdrianReddix]

You're welcome!

[@tjnetworksystemscash]

I was using Libreoffice and I was trying to do some edits on insurance card yet the page doesn't appear anymore! Which is very frustrating

[@hady7547]

thank you

[@psfgtech]

Good reviews

[@AlanRussell-i2f]

How come you didn't talk about foxit? Last I checked they have a free reader that is pretty decent and a one-time fee editor program as well.

[@callmejames1010]

are these apps able to convert Jpeg to pdf as well??

[@bernardtakang9042]

Hi @adrian i run a documentation services and here is my issues. 1i have just a max available space of 2mb to upload on the site wether i have 30 documents or just 1 i have to fit it into 2mb. All of these documents are mostly PDFs files i need to convert to picture format reduce the size till all 30 docs fits into 2mb space upload i have. Q. How do i make my job easier amd with what tools ? Any fast and user friendly conversion tools to help migrate a large pdf docs to pictures format?

[@philrob4362]

Any mac pdf to epub converter , focused on dark mode you can suggest

[@alexiswhittier7119]

my Chromebook zip compressed and it said LibreOffice is not supported on Chromebook and when I tried to unzip it, it will not open. what can I do?

[@AdrianReddix]

Not much. There is a way to install it via Linux but it's complicated. The best thing in my experience for Chromebook is Google Docs and the Google equivalent. If there is a certain feature you need that's on LibreOffice, there might be an app that can address this issue. It is not ideal, but it can work.

[@RetrieverTrainingAlone]

After 2 months using Adobe Acrobat at $20 per month, Adobe CHARGED $90 CANCELLATION FEE! Outrageous!! I will never buy any Adobe product for the rest of my life.

[@WranglerGH]

hi i want to learn how to edit from the start im all ready for you to tale me through pls

[@Bluefro_]

yeah, work!!!

[@darkmatter8650]

Hey! Adrian.. Editing PDF with Firefox, but it takes an hour to load and page loading is slow, cache everything cleared, tracking blocked but it's happening. And another anoying thing is I m only erasing and removing extra and overlaping sentences, adding nothing to it. Yet PDF size increasing everytime. Doing this on off-campus web, it let's under 50mb PDF to edit for free. Help me.

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm guessing this is some type of extension for Firefox. I'm not aware of Firefox having native PDF editing. If it is an extension, I would try another one to see if the performance issue resolved. If that does work, I would try pdfescape.com if you need a web based solution. It's not perfect but it works. If you have the room, LibreOffice Draw is a good alternative. I hope this helps.

[@jandrex007]

Thanks for this Okular is a beast, I deleted everything else.

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm glad to here it. Thank your for commenting.

[@centripetal6157]

I'm looking for a free pdf reader that can index or bookmark parts of the pdf for quick viewing and creating a "table of contents"... It's been difficult finding a pdf reader with this functionality.

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm not quite sure. Let me do some research and see what I can find.

[@NaturalHealthNetwork]

I need something to rearrange pages, delete and add pages and merge PDF documents. Do you know of a free or inexpensive one that does those things? Thank you!

[@AdrianReddix]

I apologize, I just saw this. Pdfsam might be the program for you. I would caution you about the install. I have a video about how to do it. I thank you for the comment and please let me know how it goes.

[@s.k5459]

Question...say I had a document I scanned and uploaded to my phone and I wanted yo change some words is there any app that can do that??

[@AdrianReddix]

There are a couple of apps that I have heard of but I haven't used any of them. Xodo and Foxit (I've used the desktop version and it's good) are the ones that come to mind.

[@StageMan57]

I luv ya my fellow American but, you use all encompassing words like "anything you want to do". Unfortunately most of the applications you discussed can't do "anything I want to do"...like, create a form that can be signed. All they can do is edit text and images. For those that just want to edit text and images your video will help.

[@AdrianReddix]

I appreciate the comment. I'll definitely consider it next time.

[@radiolandia]

Gracias

[@AdrianReddix]

de nada

[@miterca]

Can you combine pdf's in Draw?

[@AdrianReddix]

Technically, yes. it is a very cumbersome process. I wouldn't recommend it but it is possible.

[@miterca]

@@AdrianReddix ty!

[@cocosricos5541]

LibreOffice Draw... Seems it doesn't work well with diacritics... I opened a pdf document with this program and all Ă, â, ș etc characters are displayed in a strange way, totally unusable. Any ideas? Otherwise, as I said, it is unusable.

[@AdrianReddix]

Yeah, Draw has its limitations. I haven't seen Draw handle diacritics well.

[@lashlarue59]

Do you know of any way to have more than 50 PDF's open at the same time?

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm sorry I don't.

[@lashlarue59]

@@AdrianReddix Thanks for responding!

[@we1are1nemesis]

thanks, no more ADOBE software for me

[@lionovich]

The Best thing for Adobe software is ecosystem. When you have a project in Premiere, you can edit pictures in Photoshop, scenes in after effects, sound in audition. So nothing FOSS can replace it. it's a pitty.

[@AdrianReddix]

100%. Adobe has one of the strongest ecosystems because all of their apps play so well together. I appreciate the comment.

[@shobhakm8774]

👌🤝👌👌

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[@grewiestiffin801]

Please don't install the swifdoo sponsored one, it will slow your PC down A LOT

[@AdrianReddix]

Sponsored? This came from the swifdoo website? If so, interesting.

[@nukedaddy]

I had no idea Draw could do PDFs. Wow.

[@BewilderedBob]

Apparently LibreOffice DRAW is your choice for a PDF editor. Does it support "find" function to allow keyword searching ? If not, what does ? Thanx.

[@rickyleung2629]

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 👍

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much. I am glad I could help. I greatly appreciate it.

[@masoudsalami]

How can I repair a corrupt PDF file? Another word, what software from Adobe can repair a corrupt PDF file? TY

[@royaboat5315]

great video mate. cheers. do you know of any PDF readers that enable menu's options/ allow you to click to a certain page number? I ask because .... I currently have an APP that is too expensive to maintain...so I was trying to see if there is an interactive PDF reader on phones that can take the APP's place? any tips/ ideas? cheers. ro :-)

[@misspriss8782]

Awesome info and video!!! Draw is so much better than PDF Escape for editing PDFs!!!! Thank you so much!!

[@SteveAddis]

Cool apps. Well done and thanks for posting!

[@KouroshPanahi]

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

[@lucianoramirez6111]

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

[@rski1036]

Is there one with the ability for me to edit and lock with password ?

[@ZenSilenc]

This is ever-green content, thank you very much sir.

[@svenshanah]

LibreOffice draw won't edit my scanned PDF .. even the drag to the side trick doesn't leave behind the editable text. No matter what I try it will not engage and create the blue box around anything. Running up on a dead line for some tasks I thought would be easy and I'm starting to panic 😟

[@AdrianReddix]

I'm sorry I just saw this. Sometimes Draw can act weird with scanned documents. Its not 100%. As far as a free solution, there might be a couple of options. It really depends on the text of the original document and the quality of the scan. Some online editors might help like pdfescape or docfly. Like everything if there is sensitive information on it I wouldn't upload it to a website to edit. As far as free options, its pretty limited if Draw doesn't work. I'll keep on looking and if I come up with a solution I'll definitely let you know. Again I apologize for the late response. Thank you again.

[@svenshanah]

*No problem ;-)

[@apriljonas1699]

I've tried mine but it doesn't edit 😢😢

[@AdrianReddix]

Which program are you using?

[@sab7591]

do these support dark mode

[@AdrianReddix]

Some of them do, but most of the time Open Source is light mode.

[@Lovingoddess28]

Hey friend Great content !👍🏾

[@AdrianReddix]

Thank you very much. How are you and how is everything going?

[@Lovingoddess28]

@@AdrianReddix I’m good I’m well thank you for asking you’ll be seeing or hearing more of me 😂

[@AdrianReddix]

@@Lovingoddess28 you have an open invitation to talk to me anytime.

[@Lovingoddess28]

@@AdrianReddix always thank u