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PDF Arranger vs qpdf: catalog facts
PDF Arranger	qpdf
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0.	Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.
Windows, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Page thumbnails you drag, rotate, crop and delete directly Merges and interleaves two documents, ideal for one-sided scans	Rewrites PDF structure losslessly, which makes it ideal in pipelines Can dump and rebuild a PDF as JSON for scripted editing
Page operations only; no text or image editing No official macOS build	No rendering or text extraction; those need other tools Command line only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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