Best tool for inspecting PDF files? [closed]

Answer 1

My sugession is Foxit PDF Reader which is very helpful to do important text editing work on pdf file.

Answer 2

Adobe Acrobat has a very cool but rather well hidden mode allowing you to inspect PDF files. I wrote a blog article explaining it at https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2009/04/viewing-pdf-objects/

Answer 3

If you want to work programmatically from within Python, pdfminer is a good option. It allows you to work with PDF structure in memory as an object hierarchy or serialize it as XML.

Answer 4

There is also another option. Adobe Acrobat Pro is also able to display the internal tree structure of the PDF.

1. Open Preflight
2. Go to Options (right upper corner)
3. Internal PDF Structure

On top Adobe Acrobat Pro can also display the internal structure of the Document Fonts in the PDF most of other "PDF tree structure viewer" don't have this otion