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Looking for an Adobe Acrobat alternative (PDF-editor) (feddit.nl)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] vcdeadpeople 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

made from Berlin 🇩🇪

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I'll check it out, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours 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 (:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours 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.