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PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Post by yunohn »

totoglazer wrote: post #55
knallfrosch wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lack of good PDF editing in general. Adobes OCR can't handle a simple black-white tax document. To say nothing of OCRing scans. God help you if one text field wasn't recognized, because you sure as hell can't add the missing field. And handy functions like "combine two PDF pages into one" (for example, combining front and back scan of something) are always easier to do by Googling than by using any software…

Preview.app is surprisingly good at a lot of this. Someone should clone it for Linux/Windows.

That’s odd, people keep saying this, but Preview doesn’t work on a lot of PDFs for me. Do you have a good explainer of what it can do?

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Post by jancsika »

tiagod wrote: post #69
teruakohatu wrote: post #65

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Does this absolutely prevent a page from saving information, eg local stiarge, and later transmitting it when you either visit the site or a Web page where it is iframed?

For that you may use containers, private mode, the menu to delete site data, and auto-delete.

So even here on HN, we've got a thread which:

1. starts by suggesting devTools, which is simple, elegant, and wrong.

2. improves by suggesting the "Work Offline" menu option of the File menu, which is hidden by default on both Windows and Linux, and also wrong.

3. improves to a state of minimal functionality with implicitly ordered steps to use Private Browsing, Offline Mode, and confidential file "upload." And, I guess, always remembering to close all private browsing windows upon completion?

I'll rankly speculate f this ever caught on, 25% of users will forget to check offline mode until after they have finished editing their confidential document, 40% will leave a stray Private Browsing window open at all times, 10% will accidentally continue doing all their browsing in the same Private Browsing window, and 1% will somehow paste their private GPG keys in the query string of the URL.

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Post by pdftoolorg »

croes wrote: post #90

Still 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.

valid point, but this is not our intention. hold us accountable - shame us directly and reference this comment. sincerly, simon

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Post by pdftoolorg »

albert_e wrote: post #88
pdftoolorg wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :-)

this was my first comment on hackernews, so i had to create a new account

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Post by h4x0rr »

akmittal wrote: post #19
gabereiser wrote: post #7

"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…

Open website > disable internet/wifi > perform your task and close tab

If the website is truly malicious it could store the data in localStorage and transfer it to their servers the next time you open the site

Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

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Post by Zuiii »

pritambaral wrote: post #67
mikea1 wrote: post #51

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You can quickly go offline via dev tools. In Chrome, it's very simple[0]. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference...

Workaround: 1. Install ServiceWorker. 2. Save data to LocalStorage/IndexedDB/ServiceWorker Cache/ServiceWorker Memory. 3. Wait for devtools to be closed, enabling internet access, send data from ServiceWorker.

I'd create a fresh browser profile just for this, download it, then point it to use a http/socks proxy that will never exist.

Work around that.

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