Open source alternatives to iLovePDF

2 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what iLovePDF does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What iLovePDF does

Merge and split PDFscore
Convert PDFs to and from Office and imagescore
Compress PDFs
Edit and annotate PDFs
Sign PDFs
OCR scanned documents

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
Stirling-PDFSelf-hosted web app with many tools to edit, convert and merge PDFs	Replaces it81%	97k+583	678	9 days ago	100%	Needs a server	Custom license
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Convert PDFs to and from Office and images; Edit and annotate PDFs.See the evidence Merge and split PDFscoreYesEdit, merge, split, sign, redact, convert, OCR, compress Convert PDFs to and from Office and imagescorePartlyEdit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs Compress PDFsYesCompress Shrink for archive Edit and annotate PDFsPartly60+ powerful tools for editing PDFs Sign PDFsYesEdit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs OCR scanned documentsYesOCR Read scanned pages
pdfcraftBrowser based PDF toolkit for editing, converting, merging and splitting files	Replaces it69%	9.8k+45	193	6 days ago	32%	Runs in a browser	AGPL-3.0
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Convert PDFs to and from Office and images; Edit and annotate PDFs. Not shown: Sign PDFs.See the evidence Merge and split PDFscoreYesCombine multiple PDFs into one document Convert PDFs to and from Office and imagescorePartlyOffice to PDF, eBook to PDF Compress PDFsYesMerge, split, compress, convert, and edit PDF files Edit and annotate PDFsPartlyAll-in-one PDF editor for merge, split, organize Sign PDFsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. OCR scanned documentsYesMake scanned PDFs searchable with text recognition

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