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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speed Reading Tools

The software featured in here is based on spritzing. Read text without moving your eyes, and therefore rapidly increase your reading speed.

This article focuses on useful PDF tools which can help you create PDFs as well as small utilities/libraries that help you work with PDF.

We recommend the best free and open source PDF manipulation tools offering some genuinely useful software.

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.

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.