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Free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

These open-source projects do a similar job for free, though most need more setup.

  1. Turn complex PDFs into clean text, tables and formulas
    ★ 83.1kstars
    MinerU by opendatalab · Free alternative to Mistral OCR, Adobe Acrobat
    No codingDesktop appHealthy
  2. Edit, merge, split, convert and read text from PDFs privately
    ★ 95.7kstars
    Stirling-PDF by Stirling-Tools · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat, Smallpdf
    Some setupSelf-hosted app▶ Try onlineHealthy
  3. Convert PDFs and documents into text AI can use
    ★ 70.1kstars
    docling by docling-project · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy