The following is a categorised list of useful for software for working with PDF (portable document format) files in Microsoft Windows.

PDF Readers

• Foxit Reader (freeware)
• Sumatra PDF Viewer (freeware)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (freeware)
• Cool PDF Reader (freeware)

This refers to programs that install themselves as virtual printers and allow you to print anything to a PDF file.

• PDF Creator (open source)
• CutePDF (freeware)
• DoPDF (freeware)
• PrimoPDF (freeware)
• WinPDF (freeware)
• Print2PDF (freeware)

This refers to programs for converting from PDF to other formats

• Free PDF to Microsoft Word converter (freeware)
• PDF2HTML command line utility (open source)
• PDF2EXE converts PDF documents to standalone executables (freeware)
• PDF Explorer manages and catalogs your PDF files (commercial)
• AKS-Labs Compare PDF visually compares two PDF documents (commercial)