I use Wondershare PDFElement (free, Windows or Mac) and use its Pro feature to edit PDF, and finally Print to PDF to save. You are welcome.
PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
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Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have a look at https://simplePDF.eu – online like PDFTool.org and with local processing as well. It’s free and does not require an account (I don’t like websites that force you to sign up to do anything) Disclosure: I’m the solo developer behind it
It does say "edit PDF", but it doesn't really seem to allow editing any text on any PDF files.
“Editor” is that people Google and look for.
You can add (“merge”), remove, delete pages, which is technically editing.
You can annotate the document by adding text, pictures, signatures, checkboxes as well as fill PDF form fields: unfortunately as you noticed you cannot “edit” existing text.
(I initially used the term annotator but it confused people so much that I changed it for edit and editor)
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
Buddy I've got news for you if you think that Russia and China are more virtuous on the internet than the U.S.
China and Russia definitely do cybercrime, but:
> In its release, WikiLeaks said "Marble" was used to insert foreign language text into the malware to mask viruses, trojans and hacking attacks, making it more difficult for them to be tracked to the CIA and to cause forensic investigators to falsely attribute code to the wrong nation. The source code revealed that Marble had examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Persian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
The government and media pretends that attribution is a slam-dunk when it virtually never is. On the other hand, there are big career benefits to discovering the next "Chinese" malware vs. stumbling upon some US/EU script kiddy nonsense that included Chinese characters as a prank/red herring. There is incentive to misattribute & sensationalize.
I would wager that ~100% of CIA/NSA malware (or any state actor, really) has a plausible red herring cover. It would be foolish not to.
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#84> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it." > Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why > Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
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Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#85The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
ms-edge is surprisingly good for quick pdf annotations and my preferred PDF reader on Linux.
It's a crazy timeline we're on.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
True, though that's because the US has a fairly free press and the Freedom of Information Act.
And the CloudAct and gagging orders
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#87"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
Is WebAssembly less trustworthy than minified/obfuscated JavaScript? WebAssembly has no implicit access to browser APIs so I wouldn't think so.
Less experience in reading and de-obfuscating it.
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#88So most common online pdf tools like smallpdf.com and ilovepdf.com are blocked on office networks for obvious reasons. Can we save this page as .html file on a local folder and run it from browser -- never triggering the firewall / websense blockers etc?
i just created an account for you :-) save it as an PWA to your machine, if you have no internet it will cache the last version - so you will be able to go fully offline and not even need to fetch the dns queries
Thanks
I am not sure I understand this though:
> i just created an account for you :-)
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#89The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
If you want to add page, remove page, split, merge, reorder, re-orient all or individual pages, ... May I recommend the glorious NAPS2 [1] ?
It's meant as a scanning tool but works just fine without scanning just drag and drop a pdf on it.
It doesn't do in-page editing or annotation, it's "one layer above" that.
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#90Still not trustworthy.
Works as advertised.
Gains trust
Changes app
Steals data
And I doubt that everybody always disables the internet connection while they use the app.