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What PDF Reader do you use?

failblox
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As of now I've been using Adobe Acrobat XI to view all my PDFs and it's generally been okay, but I find it lags a lot when doing basic things such as scrolling through the PDF document. Are there any PDF readers out there that provide a reasonable amount of functionality while still managing to be lightweight and fast? I'm curious as to what other people are using as well to see what else is out there.

 

As of now, Foxit Reader and Sumatra look pretty good to me. However, Sumatra doesn't seem to offer that much functionally. I think I should also add that OCR support (text recognition) would be nice, but is not a necessity. I'd also like for it to be free. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)

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I use Adobe Reader and I don't have any problems.

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Adobe man.

 

Some use Foxit.

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I use Adobe Reader and I don't have any problems.

Hm that's odd... I think my version is a bit older and it's Adobe Acrobat XI Pro (if that makes any difference, which I don't think it should)

I actually couldn't underclock my 5 year old GPU to make it as slow as a next-gen console.

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Adobe Reader X, never update in 4 years.

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Adobe Reader X, its free and it does the job well enough for me to not use any other program to read PDF files. 

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I'm using newest Acrobat DC version. Don't really like them going with what is Metro look. Too much white everywhere. And it doesn't remember my sidebar preferences.

OCR or rather good OCR is paid thing. You can find free stuff but they have limits and make more mistakes.

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