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I like Okular, i'd say its medium resource usage though and it might require kde packages you dont already have. Still, might be woth checking out, its the default in Plasma and does everything i need.
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Another vote for Okular.
KDE default, and it's always worked fantastic for me in the past. Actually, lol, I was just giving a presentation a couple weeks ago using it, and -- I am not making this up -- one of the people in the audience was so impressed he came up to ask me what program I was using.
PDF Viewer/Reader: ever tried okular? (part of the KDE Project) Extract text from PDF via CLI: Use pdftotext (part of the poppler-utils package)
I view PDFs on Linux with evince or xpdf. Xpdf is lighter but has fewer features.
are there any lightweight Linux terminal programs that can export PDF as plain text
pdftotext
EDIT: Xpdf probably also isn't Wayland-native, if that matters for you.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)
(pdftotext is in the poppler-utils package in Debian)
EDIT3: Oh, looks like Xpdf got ported to Qt, so it probably can do Wayland these days.
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Firefox can view PDFs so I assume Chrome also has that ability, and you're likely to already have one or the other if you're already using your computer for web browsing.
If you need something stand-alone, one of the Evince family might also suit your purpose. Evince = GNOME Document Viewer and XFCE is GTK-based, which seems like a good match. There's also Atril which is a MATE fork and Xreader, which is a fork of Atril, from Linux Mint's Xapps project.
LibreOffice, as mentioned by another respondent, has the ability to modify PDFs if not outright edit them, i.e. ability to place text boxes on top of the document, so you could theoretically use it to digitally complete a form you've been sent as a PDF and save it out as one. That may be worth jumping through the hoops if that sounds like a feature you might want.
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Hard to get lighter weight than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuPDF
The frontend doesn't even really have a UI, just keyboard input.
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince
For OCR maybe ocrpdf from
https://github.com/uroesch/pdftools
Edit: ah no, ocr not needed if it's text already. As someone else already said there's a tool for plain text extraction.
pdftotext go-1984.pdf
cat go-1984.txt | espeak
Looks like pdftotext go-1984.pdf -|espeak should let you drop the temporary file, if you want.
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Check out lue: https://github.com/paulilaaso/lue
terminal-based , TTS, various formats supported. I've used it and it works on my system. (edit: I see you're on android, so not sure if that's supported. It's python.)
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Atril and xpdf, I guess? Honestly I had never sat down to think and search this before.
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The default .pdf viewer in your Linux distro should be enough.. on Debian Trixie with GNOME it seems to be Evince and it works well and lightweight (especially compared to anything Adobe related!). I don't know too much about Termux but I guess if you can install Evince in there then it should be fine.
Otherwise like others mentioned most web browsers nowadays can view .pdf files, people usually have a web browser already installed so that's probably the easiest solution unless you need/want something different.
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Libre Office
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