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Looking for an Adobe Acrobat alternative (PDF-editor) (self.buyeuropean)
submitted 3 months ago by Snoezelpoes to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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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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[โ€“] vcdeadpeople@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

For years in love with PDF24

Free tool made in Berlin ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

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

Edit: changed โ€œfrom Berlinโ€ to โ€œin Berlinโ€ because a very smart internet user noticed that English isnโ€™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.

[โ€“] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

made from Berlin ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

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

[โ€“] Snoezelpoes 2 points 3 months ago

I'll check it out, thanks!

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Amazing!

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] zarlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

+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 (:

[โ€“] Snoezelpoes 2 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] Jean_Mich_Much@jlai.lu 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Snoezelpoes 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[โ€“] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As others have said:

Okular (comments, forms, highlighting) Firefox (adding signatures (=images) LibreOffice Impress

If you know Docker there's also https://www.stirlingpdf.com/

(If you need print proofing with CMYK color profile and pdf checks you're out of luck afaik, your best bet is Scribus)