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13 Best Free and Open Source Tools for Novelists

Writing is one of the essential skills in modern society.

Skribisto project manager and rich text editor for writers in a quest of a complete, yet simple, way of writing and organizing their work.

Rescribe is an easy-to-use desktop tool for performing OCR on image files, PDFs and Google Books.

Qpdf Tools is an easy-to-use Qt interface for Ghostscript and QPDF. It lets you compress a PDF file, merge PDF files and more.

Quick PDF Join is a simple application that joins multiple PDF files together.

cpdf (Coherent PDF Command Line Tools) is a set of tools that let you modify PDF files. It’s written in OCaml.

PDF Juggler is a desktop tool to mix, reorder and select PDF pages. It’s a clone of PDF Shuffler and PDF Arranger

PDF Tricks is billed as a simple, efficient application for small manipulations in PDF files. It’s written in Vala.

veraPDF is a purpose-built, open source, file-format validator covering all PDF/A and PDF/UA parts and conformance levels.

PDF4QT is a cross-platform PDF editor consisting of four applications.

PDF Metadata Editor is a simple tool you can use to edit the metadata (Author, Keywords, etc.) of a PDF document.

Scans to PDF lets you create small, searchable PDFs from scanned documents.

Pulsar is a community-led hyper-hackable Text Editor. It’s forked from the abandoned Atom text editor. It’s built on Electron.

unlockR is a simple tool to decrypt PDF files. It offers a GUI using GTK4.

jpeg2pdf is a command-line tool which lets you convert images to PDF. It supports a variety of different image formats.