Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling

Post by ggcdn » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

ct520 wrote: post #89

ggcdn wrote: post #83

I work in an industry that marks up PDFs extensively (construction) and have wanted to build a bespoke PDF markup tool for a long time. In designing concrete floor slabs, we need to transfer information from our FEA software to a dwg. Currently a blank plan is printed, it’s marked up by hand, and then handed to a drafter to put back into the computer. It’s a very inefficient process. But all the SDKs are stupidly exp…

What's preventing this being done with a ipad, pencil, and a myriad of pdf viewer/markup apps out there?

Post by robocop2018 » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 12:36 AM UTC

phonon wrote: post #71

robocop2018 wrote: post #60

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I am not "him" :) though I work at PDFTron As Nick says the project is open source ( https://github.com/PDFTron/webviewer-ui ). Express is available under under dual AGPL/commercial license ( similar to iText and lot's of other popular OSS )

Where is the AGPL license?

Post by robocop2018 » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 12:41 AM UTC

ensignavenger wrote: post #24

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It's open source.

What license is this under? Where can I get the source code? The website says it is open source in one place, and then in other places it says it is a "commercial PDF web viewer that wraps around the PDF.js open-source rendering engine." I didn't see any link to the source code or license anywhere on the site?

Post by phonon » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 2:37 AM UTC

robocop2018 wrote: post #123

phonon wrote: post #71

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Where is the AGPL license?

It's https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0 Or summary of what it means bit.ly/2JD0Yj0 If you are talking about info on the site & git, we are working on it. There will be many changes over next few weeks. Stay tuned :)

Post by ggcdn » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 3:47 AM UTC

ct520 wrote: post #122

ggcdn wrote: post #121

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I didn’t clarify that the tool needs to store the information so it can be imported into CAD, rather than just being hand scribbled lines and numbers.

Ahh gotcha. This should still be straight forward. Just don’t know of a generic format to export overlays/cordinates. Everyone has a opinion on how this should be done and measured and there are different standards for pdf libraries and print etc. not complicated though.