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c/buyeuropean · by Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl · 1y

Looking for an Adobe Acrobat alternative (PDF-editor)

I'm looking for an Adobe Acrobat alternative, or PDF-editor, that is capable of:

  • marking text;
  • adding text;
  • adding comments (like one would do in MS Word);
  • adding a signature (in some way);
  • preferably, but not necessary: the ability to recognise text in files where the text is not selectable (i.e. one can copy text from an image file that was saved as a PDF, like some printers do when scanning pages).

Does anyone happen to know of any European or Open Source alternative that fit this description? I have sworn to never again install any Adobe software.

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vcdeadpeople@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

For years in love with PDF24

Free tool made in Berlin 🇩🇪

https://www.pdf24.org/de/ https://www.pdf24.org/en/

Edit: changed “from Berlin” to “in Berlin” because a very smart internet user noticed that English isn’t my first language and helped me improve my grammar by mocking my post with a mediocre dad joke while not contributing to OPs question himself.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

made from Berlin 🇩🇪

They killed berlin to make this? Dats fucked up. /s

Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y

I'll check it out, thanks!

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

Amazing!

Jean_Mich_Much@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I know that you can use Firefox to do some basic edition on PDF like your first and second point, maybe even the fourth point but no more. You can check a box by clicking on it too.

For more "complex" editing, I'm using GIMP but you have to know how to use it.

Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y

I've tried both but I feel GIMP is a bit cumbersome to edit a PDF with. Firefox is great as a reader and some basic text input, but no more. Thanks for the recommendations though.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

For viewer I would say Sumatra (Polish) or Okular, but I don't know any European or open source editor unfortunately

zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

+1 for Sumatra as a viewer, it's super fast, even with large documents.

Okular has support for filling forms, but I'm not sure if it has more advanced editing features.

A non-adobe, but closed-source alternative is Foxit. It's Chinese, so not EU, but also not US (:

Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks for the recommendations, Sumatra and Okular seem popular alternatives so I'll check them out.