October 26, 2023 | Reading Time: 8 minutes
| Software | Editing | OCR | Forms | License | |----------|---------|-----|-------|---------| | | Yes (basic) | No | Limited | Open source (LGPL) | | Okular (KDE) | Annotations only | No | View only | GPL | | PDFArranger | Page manipulation | No | No | GPL | | Scribus | Advanced layout | No | No | GPL | | Xournal++ | Annotation, handwrite | No | No | GPL | | qpdf + command line | Merge/split/edit objects | No | No | Apache 2.0 | | PDFedit (legacy) | Full editing | No | No | GPL (unmaintained) | October 26, 2023 | Reading Time: 8 minutes
Master PDF Editor offers a with full editing features, but it adds a watermark when saving. Users love it for its ability to edit
Enter —a proprietary, but highly capable, application developed by CodeIndustry. It offers a native Linux experience (available as .deb , .rpm , and in Snap/Flatpak formats). Users love it for its ability to edit text directly within PDFs, fill forms, add annotations, create bookmarks, and even manipulate pages. but highly capable
If you need to remove the watermark, you must purchase a license. There is no legal "free code."