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A Free PDF Reader for Windows Only*

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Nitro PDF Reader

  • View, print, email, and share PDF files
  • Convert to and from PDF, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint formats
  • Highlight, underline, cross out, and add notes to text and pages
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Everything that comes with Nitro Reader PLUS:
  • Make scanned PDFs searchable and editable with OCR technology
  • Edit: insert, delete, crop, replace and reorder pages
  • Combine multiple files and file types into one PDF
  • Permanently and securely redact sensitive information
  • eSign, collaborate, and share seamlessly with Nitro Cloud integration
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View, print, email, and share PDF files
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Convert to and from PDF, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint formats
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Highlight, underline, cross out, and add notes to text and pages
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Make scanned PDFs searchable and editable with OCR technology
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Edit: insert, delete, crop, replace, and reorder pages
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Combine multiple files and file types into one PDF
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Permanently and securely redact sensitive information
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eSign, collaborate, and share seamlessly with Nitro Cloud integration
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What can Nitro's Free PDF Reader do for you?

Learn about the best Free PDF reader on the market and the #1 Adobe PDF reader alternative.

Create

  • Create PDFs from virtually any Windows application and from over 300 formats.
  • Drag and drop files to instantly create a document.
  • Customize your PDFs with tools like custom colors, font-embedding, page size, orientation and output quality or keep it simple with preset options.
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Create

  • Create PDFs from virtually any Windows application and from over 300 formats.
  • Drag and drop files to instantly create a document.
  • Customize your PDFs with tools like custom colors, font-embedding, page size, orientation and output quality or keep it simple with preset options.
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Review

  • Join the collaboration process-leave comments, address feedback, highlight, underline or strike out text.
  • The intuitive user-interface makes it easy to view PDFs, add text and collaborate with others.
  • When you open a PDF with digital signatures, comments or bookmarks, the relevant pane will automatically display-making it easy to know what to review first.
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Review

  • Join the collaboration process-leave comments, address feedback, highlight, underline or strike out text.
  • The intuitive user-interface makes it easy to view PDFs, add text and collaborate with others.
  • When you open a PDF with digital signatures, comments ore bookmarks, the relevant pane will automatically display—making it easy to know what to review first.
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Sign

  • QuickSign any document in seconds, without leaving your desk.
  • Just scan or take a photo of your signature to quickly create your John Hancock.
  • Add password protection to your documents to keep signatures safe and secure.
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Sign

  • QuickSign any document in seconds, without leaving your desk.
  • Just scan or take a photo of your signature to quickly create your John Hancock.
  • Add password protection to your documents to keep signatures safe and secure.
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Share

  • All PDFs created with Nitro Reader are 100% compatible with other readers, so you can share securely with anyone, anywhere.
  • Colleagues can also create multiple QuickSign profiles, making it easy to share back and forth between teams and businesses.
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Share

  • All PDFs created with Nitro Reader are 100% compatible with other readers, so you can share securely with anyone, anywhere.
  • Colleagues can also create multiple QuickSign profiles, making it easy to share back and forth between teams and businesses.
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