I get that there is proprietary stuff that open-source will likely never have just due to licensing, but I can envision one piece of software that does everything that 90% of folks would ever need.
#Pdf editor reddit pdf#
:DĪnd personally, when I look at something like GIMP and see what a powerful alternative to Photoshop it is (admittedly still with some limitations), it's just genuinely surprising to me that there's not an analogous PDF editing suite. Or maybe the proper workflow is a different order, IDK. I go through and rotate the appropriate pages, and finally perform OCR to get something hopefully close to the actual text. Then add hierarchical bookmarks for sections and chapters (Op Amps > TL072 for example). So in this scenario, I would like to change the page numbering flow to be 1, i, ii. I imagine most people are similar, its just more convenient to bookmark. So now I'm left with a PDF with pages numbered 1-301, no bookmarks, no OCR, and a few pages with tables and charts that force me to rotate the PDF 90 degrees for a page, then rotate it back for the next one. I can think of like 2 occasions in the last year where I have needed to edit a PDF. For me, it's because as much as I might like to have the source file, quite often I'm downloading a scanned document, or scanning it myself. Maybe there are more folks than I expect who can just re-generate the document. In my mind, if someone asks a question like that, it's a given that the original generating document isn't available. I tend to find comments saying "just change the source rather than the PDF" to be reductive. Replying now because I only now found this thread after searching for essentially an open-source alternative to Acrobat Pro. I'd really like to start this project, I already have a nice name in mind.
#Pdf editor reddit Patch#
I think the most difficult and time-consuming part would be to find the right package for each task and then patch it all together. I also searched for adding text and images and found something that should work (I'm still testing), although not recently maintained.
Not a one day task but not impossible either. At least for these things it would basically be a matter of coding the interface and tying things together. I did a little research on python modules and there are both native ones and C++ wrappers that offer some basic functions such as adding/removing pages, reordering and rotation. I agree with the lack of open source proposals and I think many of the things you asked for are achievable without too much trouble. I have a dual boot so sometimes I need to reboot only to change OS in order to use the more suitable software for the task I have to do. I use a combination of software, mainly pdf wondershare on Windows. Hi, I read your other post a few hours ago and came back to comment, then I saw this so I'll reply here.
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