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Document Viewer

Document Viewer is a PDF reader, available on Linux: annotation and highlighting.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Document Viewer is a PDF reader, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: annotation and highlighting.

File formats mentioned: PDF, CBZ, CBR, DJVU and TIFF.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Document viewer of GNOME desktop.” — Wikidata, 10 November 2026
  • “You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Document Viewer is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats. Papers supports documents in: PDF, DjVu, TIFF, and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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