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

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

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Post by hanklazard »

IvanK_net wrote: post #44

I spent about three years building the support for PDF into my graphics editor https://www.Photopea.com . While other editors "add stuff on top of PDF", Photopea "chews through" each byte of a PDF, and tries to make as much sense of it as possible. You can rewrite the existing text (with the same formatting), edit bézier curves, edit gradient fills. You can edit bitmaps on a pixel level. You can see the parameters as…

I literally needed this just a few hrs ago and instead had to resort to a free trial of adobe reader pro (ugh). I’ll check this out for next time, looks great.

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

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Post by juuul »

niknikson wrote: post #43
williamstein wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Evidently I should clarify that by "open source", I mean "released under an OSI approved license" ( https://opensource.org/licenses ). Maybe robocop2018 means "open source" in the sense of "there is possibly minified non-human readable source code that you can look at under a very restrictive non-OSI license"?

Thank you for your feedback and question. My apologies if it’s unclear. The source code for the UI is available on GitHub [1], but is minified in the download package for efficiency. Note that even though the code is "open source" in that repo, we still have a custom license [2]. [1] https://github.com/PDFTron/webviewer-ui [2] https://github.com/PDFTron/webviewer-ui/blob/6.2/LICENSE

Please don't use the term open source, not even in quotes, if your code is not available under a license that meets the Open Source Definition or the Free Software Definition.

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

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Post by ggcdn »

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 expensive (this one included). It’s really surprising there isn’t something open source, given the importance of PDF markup in many industries and businesses.

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

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Post by chrischen »

IvanK_net wrote: post #44

I spent about three years building the support for PDF into my graphics editor https://www.Photopea.com . While other editors "add stuff on top of PDF", Photopea "chews through" each byte of a PDF, and tries to make as much sense of it as possible. You can rewrite the existing text (with the same formatting), edit bézier curves, edit gradient fills. You can edit bitmaps on a pixel level. You can see the parameters as…

Wow nice. I was just about to cancel my Photoshop subscription because 1) I hate subscription pricing models and 2) I'm using it mostly just to resize images.

Nice to see that you have the Photoshop UI there so I don't have to relearn anything.

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

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Post by konfuzio »

mmckelvy wrote: post #10

RE: the "Extract & parse content" feature, does this mean you can parse and extract data from PDF documents like bank statements or invoices?

Hi mmckelvy, Co-Founder of konfuzio.com here. If you are looking for a tool to extract information from documents and download results via API or CSV ping me. You can train your custom AI Model using our PDF Annotation Tool. There is no coding required. Using your documents as training data you can go live within a few hours or use our pre-trained models. We don't have pricing plans on our homepage, as we mainly focus on large enterprises at the moment. But I would love to hear your feedback. Best Chris

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

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Post by savolai »

IvanK_net wrote: post #44

I spent about three years building the support for PDF into my graphics editor https://www.Photopea.com . While other editors "add stuff on top of PDF", Photopea "chews through" each byte of a PDF, and tries to make as much sense of it as possible. You can rewrite the existing text (with the same formatting), edit bézier curves, edit gradient fills. You can edit bitmaps on a pixel level. You can see the parameters as…

Wow. Sounds like you seriously need a separate landing page marketing Photopea as an advanved pdf editor.

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

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Post by necovek »

chrischen wrote: post #84
IvanK_net wrote: post #44

I spent about three years building the support for PDF into my graphics editor https://www.Photopea.com . While other editors "add stuff on top of PDF", Photopea "chews through" each byte of a PDF, and tries to make as much sense of it as possible. You can rewrite the existing text (with the same formatting), edit bézier curves, edit gradient fills. You can edit bitmaps on a pixel level. You can see the parameters as…

Wow nice. I was just about to cancel my Photoshop subscription because 1) I hate subscription pricing models and 2) I'm using it mostly just to resize images. Nice to see that you have the Photoshop UI there so I don't have to relearn anything.

I understand a professional not wanting to learn a new UI for something as complex as graphics editing, but if you are admittedly mostly using it to resize images, I can't imagine why any other tool, including the infamous Gimp, would be so hard to "learn"?

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

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Post by ct520 »

martinald wrote: post #67

Some feedback. Website design is poor. You could definitely do with a designer to make it look nicer. $5000ish a year is a weird price point. It's too expensive for a hobbyist or small dev shop, but too cheap for an enterprise to buy (when you consider the time of working on procurement problems you'll experience). You either need to make it cheap, like $200/yr, or much more expensive. Right now you are in no mans la…

I agree. As a person with direct experience building and leading top industry products in this field. It feels.. off. Signatures are one thing, but being ESIGN and UETA compliant is another. It's hard for me to in vision the niche this is fulfilling as it does more then pdfjs but not enough IMO to warrant buying/licensing it.

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

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Post by ct520 »

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?

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

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Post by ct520 »

I almost feel like this should be a product that integrates with industry leading API's and be licensed as a better white label, then get those enterprises into maintenance contract. Lot of companies I have spoken to want to "own" the process all the way through and create a seamless "in their portal experience" for interacting with PDFS. (tagging/signing/SSO/workflow etc)
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