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PDFedit

PDF editor with ability to browse/edit the tree of raw pdf objects.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

PDFedit is a PDF editor, available on Linux.

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
  • “PDF editor with ability to browse/edit the tree of raw pdf objects” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of PDFedit 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

Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can either change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use predefined gui functions. ---------- DISCLAIMER ---------- This is legacy software which uses old unmaintained libraries (Qt3, Xpdf 3.02) for which there are no security backports, therefore you should NOT open any untrusted pdf files with this software. Because of this, we have restricted the application to only have access to the standard "Downloads" and "Documents" folders, so you may need to copy/move your pdf file there so you can open it with PDFedit.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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