Top 10 Adobe Reader DC Alternatives You Can Use
In the early years of the WWW (World Wide Web), Adobe was the only software enabling you to read, create, and edit PDF documents. For sure Adobe is one of the best solution when using PDF files but it is not the only solution anymore. Below a top 10 list of Adobe Reader alternatives.
1. Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a multilingual freemium PDF software soltuion to create, view, edit, sign (digital), and print PDF files.Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou. The first versions of this software were notable for startup performance and small file size. The latests verions are very comparable o Adobe Reader. The Windows version allows annotating and saving unfinished PDF forms, FDF import/export, converting to text, highlighting and drawing.
Foxit is also available as a Firefox browser plugin that enables users to display, view, edit and print PDF documents within the browser.
2. Nitro PDF Reader
This handy PDF reader covers all the basic tasks most people perform on a daily basis and beyond. It offers more functionality then most alternative PDF readers provide.
I allows you to annotate PDF documents, add notes, and highlight, cross-out and even underline text. It even lets you extract all images in a PDF or save all the text inside the PDF in plain text, removing all the formatting and making it easier to edit.
3. Slim PDF Reader
Slim PDF is one of the smallest sized PDF readers currently available. It only takes aruond 15 MB of space on your pc. This PDF reader software solution has lot of extra features such as printing, searching, zooming and rotating.
If you are looking for a reader that is both lightweight and powerful, Slim is a great solution. It is available for Windows OS, Mac OS, and Linux OS.
4. Phantom PDF
Phantom PDF is a multi-feature PDF software solution developed by Foxit (yes, the sames makers that developed the free Foxit PDF viewer). Phantom PDF allows users to view, convert, edit, and create PDF documents. Besides the basic features it offer more advanced features including OCR (Optical Character Recognition), cloud storage integration and PDF digital signatures. It's not for free but they have a trial period. PhantomPDF handles everyday business viewing, conversion, and editing jobs like a breeze, and offers serious competition to the more expensive Adobe suite.
5. pdfDocs
pdfDocs is a project-centric PDF management software application that gives users the ability to create, collate, edit, redact, annotate and secure PDF content. pdfDocs for PDF creation and editing integrates with business systems to deliver higher levels of efficiency and productivity when assembling, securing and distributing business-critical documents in PDF and PDF/A format.
The modern pdfDocs UI, similiar to MS Office 365, reduces complexity and clutter. The user can focus on the task at hand, rather than getting disturbed by the interface. It is responsive, converting and loading documents quickly into the application.
6. Sumatra PDF
Sumatra is a free to use and open source PDF reader that has a very easy to use, intuitive user-interface, and is light on your computer’s hardware resources. This software was first released in 2006, and is stil hosted on GitHub. What is remarkable is that Sumatra PDF application filesize is just 4MB. That's the reason why it even portable by installing it on a USB stick.
The program compared to other alternatives and even Adobe Acrobat DC is that it is much faster. It starts up almost instantaneously, and renders even complex documents within miliseconds.
Not only is it able to open PDF files, but it is a complete ebook reader that can read various other file ebook formats, such as ePub, Mobi, XPS, CHM, DjVu, CBZ, CBR etc.
7. Google Drive
You might not believe it but Gooogle Drive is one of the most accessible PDF reader, converter, and PDF storage solutions in this list. On the platform, you can easily convert any of your documents, presentations, and sheets into PDF documens and upload any PDFs to it for your own viewing purposes. If your only use for PDFs is viewing or converting files, Google Drive might be the best option for you.
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