PDF Architect vs PDF Arranger

PDF Architect is a Windows PDF viewer and editor for creating, viewing, and editing PDF files. It can change text and images, manage pages, merge files, and insert or customize page elements. Conversion covers PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, text, and image formats. Review features include annotations and comparing two PDFs; form tools support creating and filling fillable forms. Secure adds passwords, permission levels, and digital signatures. E-Sign lets users prepare, send, and track documents in the application and creates a manifest for archiving the signature process; it requires a PDF Architect account. The Free plan costs nothing and includes viewing, creation from Word, Excel, and PPT, page rotation, deletion and rearrangement, and merging. Business deployment supports MSI packages and GPO, and the maker describes it as cloud-optional and local by default. Microsoft Office is required for plug-in use and Word conversion.

PDF Arranger is a free graphical desktop application for editing and organizing PDF pages on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It displays pages side by side and supports reordering by drag and drop, copy, and paste. Users can rotate, delete, duplicate, split, merge, resize, and crop pages, and the manual lists generating or splitting booklets. The application can search PDF text, edit metadata, import images as PDF pages, and export pages as PDF, PNG, JPEG, or rasterized PDF. Options address preserving document information such as outlines and links, although some operations can remove those properties. Image import requires img2pdf, while the project requires pikepdf version 6 or later. The project is licensed under GPL-3.0. Its Free plan is listed at free. Installation guidance differs by operating system, including Windows packages, macOS dependency options, and packages for Linux distributions and FreeBSD.