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PDF Arranger vs PDFsam Basic: catalog facts
PDF Arranger	PDFsam Basic
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0.	Freemium PDFsam Basic is free and open source under the AGPL 3.0. PDFsam Enhanced and Visual are…
Windows, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Page thumbnails you drag, rotate, crop and delete directly Merges and interleaves two documents, ideal for one-sided scans	Batch split, merge, rotate, extract and alternate-mix operations Completely offline; files never leave the machine
Page operations only; no text or image editing No official macOS build	No text editing, form filling or OCR in the free edition JavaFX interface feels unlike a native app on every platform
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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