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.
For years in love with PDF24
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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.
made from Berlin 🇩🇪
They killed berlin to make this? Dats fucked up. /s
I’ll check it out, thanks!
Amazing!
For viewer I would say Sumatra (Polish) or Okular, but I don’t know any European or open source editor unfortunately
+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 (:
Thanks for the recommendations, Sumatra and Okular seem popular alternatives so I’ll check them out.
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.
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.
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)
