Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to jPDFEditor
Display PDF documents and allow users to review and edit PDF
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. jPDFEditor launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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BreezePDF lets you edit, sign, merge, compress, redact, OCR, fill forms, extract tables, and use 30+ more PDF tools — all in the browser, no sign-up. Files never leave your computer. I built it because when people search Google for common PDF tasks, many of the tools they find upload documents to a server. I wanted an option that keeps files local instead. I posted an earlier version on HN last spring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 At the time it only supported a small set of features. Over the last 10 months I rebuilt large parts of it and expanded it to…
2025 · breezepdf.com · its alternatives →
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Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
2022 · lookscanned.io · its alternatives →
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- 6IM
2020 · simpdf.com · its alternatives →
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PDFpen▲110Full-featured PDF editor for Mac, with OCR and Word export.
2016 · textexpander.com · its alternatives →
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PDF editor designed for all the ways you work
2020 · pdf-reader.kdandoc.com · its alternatives →
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The best PDF viewer, editor, and form filler available.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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UPDF 2.0▲158AI-powered PDF editor with a completely redesigned interface
2025 · updf.com · its alternatives →
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A free PDF reader with all PDF annotations & form filling
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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Professional and comprehensive PDF editing software
2022 · geekersoft.com · its alternatives →
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JOPDF▲6PDF Reader, PDF Editor, PDF Protection, PDF Management
May 2026 · jopdf.com · its alternatives →
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PDF Toolbox▲13Free PDF tools work in your browser.Files never uploaded
2025 · pdftoolbox-three.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Easy, Affordable, Robust PDF Editor for Mac
2018 · pdf.wondershare.com · its alternatives →
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a Java library to create and manipulate with PDF documents
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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An easy to use, full-featured PDF editing software
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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PDF editor, annotator and converter
2019 · pdf.wondershare.com · its alternatives →
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Here's a neat hack I made recently to do basic PDF editing directly in a browser—without having to upload anything to a server. I was initially looking for a way to do simple PDF modification (extracting pages, merging, and adding page numbers). There are some good server-side tools for this (QPDF, PDFTk, PDFBox, iText, Hummus), but for better speed and privacy I really wanted a 100% client-side solution. There are a few good JavaScript PDF libraries for reading and displaying PDFs (pdf.js) and creating PDFs from scratch (jsPDF, PDFKit), but I couldn't find any for editing existing PDFs. So,…
2018 · its alternatives →
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The complete PDF toolkit for Windows — free forever
Jun 2026 · appnimi.com · its alternatives →
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An easy to use tool for editing PDF on all platforms.
2018 · lightpdf.com · its alternatives →
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