Top 10 PDF Readers for Business

August 04, 2025 | Editor: Adam Levine


PDF Readers and Viewers that are used in small business and enterprise
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Microsoft Edge is the only browser that lets you take notes, write, doodle, and highlight directly on webpages. Features vertical tabs for improved organization and easy navigation of multiple open pages. Offers a built-in (PDF) reading mode that simplifies web pages for distraction-free reading.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents.
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Foxit Reader is a lightweight, fast, and secure PDF Reader capable of high-volume processing.
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PDF editor and creator. Create, edit, and review PDFs. E-sign documents and collect signatures. Collaborate with your team. All in one app.
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Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority.
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Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
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The Universal Document Viewer. Multi-platform, fast and packed with features, Okular allows you to read PDF documents, comics and EPub books, browse images, visualize Markdown documents, and much more.
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Nitro Pro Takes Documents to New Heights. Securely sign, approve, collaborate, and manipulate your documents online and on your desktop. Create, prepare and sign—anytime, anywhere.
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Zathura is a free, plugin-based document viewer. Plugins are available for PDF, PostScript and DjVu. It was written to be lightweight and controlled with vi-like keybindings. Zathura's customizability makes it well-liked by many Linux users
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MuPDF is a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer. MuPDF consists of a software library, command line tools, and viewers for various platforms.
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Polaris Office is a free office application to view, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents anytime, anywhere on your mobile device or computer. Diverse solutions and innovative features to improve your work environment along with support for all features of an office suite.
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Those wishing to View/Modify or perform simple editing and even OCR Image based PDF files on their Windows PC's now have a FREE pdf reader alternative to the Adobe Reader! The PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than any other FREE PDF Reader/ PDF Viewer/ PDF Editor available.
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Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source
Editor: Adam Levine
Adam is an expert in project management, collaboration and productivity technologies, team management, and motivation. With an extensive background working at prestigious companies such as Microsoft and Accenture, Adam's in-depth knowledge and experience in the field make him a sought-after professional. Currently, he has ventured into entrepreneurship, owning a thriving consulting and training agency where he imparts invaluable insights and practical strategies to individuals and organizations, empowering them to achieve their goals and maximize their potential. You can contact Adam via email adam@liventerprise.com