Questions tagged [pdf]
Software that manipulates PDF (Portable Document Format) files: converting to/from PDF, printing, editing, assembling, splitting, etc.
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Free software to condense multiple images into pdf by folder?
I have a list of folders, each containing a collection of images.
I want to input the main directory and convert all images within each subfolder to a single pdf where the pdf is saved to its ...
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Is there any software to find lookalike image in PDFs?
I have a cropped screenshot of complicated math equation (digitised), which I can't find in a pdf file containing it just by simply typing the equation in the find box of the pdf viewer (because it is ...
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Webdav compatible software to annotate PDF on Android
I have some PDFs that are stored on a webdav server that I would like to annotate on my Android tablet (with a stylus).
What Android app could allow me to do this?
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PDF viewer with "Image copy" function similar to that of TeXShop
The MacOS app TeXShop has a PDF viewer that has a very powerful function. You can select any rectangle in a PDF document and then copy/paste or drag/drop it somewhere. It creates a PDF file of this ...
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Looking for an open source PDF automation tool that works with Adobe Acrobat
We are manually filling PDF forms and these forms have an inbuilt validation logic using JavaScript when we select the validation button. I am looking for a tool that can automate data entry into this ...
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Simple html to pdf conversion commandline tool for automated file creation
I have a system that automatically creates and saves documents as html. For further storage they ought to be pdfs though. I want to avoid having to do it manually so my preferred solution would be a ...
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Automatic PDF Metadata Batch Filling
I have around 5 000 PDF books in a one folder.
I'd like to find a software which can automatically fill in metadata in those PDF files,
mostly author, title and year of publication.
I tried Calibre. ...
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PDF Editing software similart to Bluebeam Revu [closed]
I'm looking for software that is similar to or better than Bluebeam Revu (a PDF editing software). It should have all or at least a majority of the function that Bluebeam Revu has. If you know such ...
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App that can sync PDF annotations only (without PDF file itself) across multiple devices (Android)
I want an app that can sync PDF annotations only without the PDF file itself. Because PDF file itself can be big in size (e.g. 200MB) and no need to upload / download the whole pdf file every time a ...
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A Linux program to find if a pdf file has a pixel on the bottom of the page
In Linux, is there a program to find if an A4 pdf file has 2.5 cm marginals from bottom. I tried to make a Python program for that but I was unable to find a solution. So something like it check all ...
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iOS app for note-taking PDFs which saves text to file?
I would like to read a PDF and efficiently highlight text which gets saved to the same note, on iOS.
I can do this with the “share” menu, but it takes a number of button presses. It would be nice to ...
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Is there a npm library that converts html to pdf that support Angular and Bootstrap?
Is there a npm library that converts html to pdf that support Angular and Bootstrap?
I have a requirement that converts the html file into pdf.
I tried pdfmake npm library but it doesn't support ...
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Paid or Free API service to flatten the PDFs
Flattening a PDF means multiple layers of the content will be merged into a single layer. However, the results vary from one service to another as what each service sees in the layers differs.
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Software to search inside pdf files and produce output in readable format?
I have a folder called "CSS". Inside that folder, there are CSS books. Now, I want to get information about "background-color" for instance. But I don't know if I need to type ...
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Raw PDF structure viewer
I want to view the contents of a PDF file - but not so much in the sense of rendering the pages in it. Rather, I want to see the hierarchy of objects, the PDF-structural tags and fields like the ...
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Any one knows a good Product Information Management PIM software
I am looking for a Product Information management software (PIM) from where i can manage my products (images, specifications SKU´s etc) and generate PDF´s, price lists, catalogues with different ...
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FLOSS tool to convert single page MATLAB PDF graphics to PDF/A on Linux
What software can save a MATLAB figure to a PDF/A (PDF/A-1b would be fine) compatible file with export_fig?
The generation of PDF/A compatible files should be done with MATLAB and FLOSS tool(s) on a ...
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pdf document scanner for windows
I am looking for a document scanner for windows 10 (for my surface tablet) to convert paper documents via camera to multipage pdf documents. Something like Genius Scan but for Windows.
Requirements:
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Open source alternative to Docusign?
When I Google "Alternative to Docisign" then lots pop up, but none of them are open source.
If I Google "open source legal contract" then https://accordproject.org/ pops up, but I ...
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Android PDF app library to read books, and event better with sync and notes
Would be great to convert (really convert, not make images) a PDF into a OneNote or similar app that allows noting and sync across devices and platforms?
I looking for an Android app to read PDFs, add ...
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Looking for JPG image to PDF converter
I want an application that will:
Use pictures I've already taken of documents
Remove the background
Transform the image to be the right shape for a document
Convert it to PDF
Preferably it should:
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Free PDF Viewer that Shows Accessibility Information (Tags)
As title suggests I am looking for free PDF Viewer that shows accessibility Information (Tags). Currently I found the functionality only in paid versions of Acrobat Reader (PRO) and other paid readers....
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How can I re-compress an image within a PDF?
I have a PDF document which I want to reduce in size. I've already tried PyPDF2 File Size reductions:
from PyPDF2 import PdfReader, PdfWriter
reader = PdfReader("example.pdf")
writer = ...
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PDF Solution that allows expandable text boxes
I used to create PDF's with expandable text boxes in Adobe LifeCycle. I have checked and Adobe LifeCycle is no longer an option. I'm not looking for an overflow text box as it doesn't show the ...
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from a PDF, extract highlights with page numbers from the command line (Linux)
Is there a way to extract, from a PDF, the highlighted passages with the corresponding page numbers from the command line, on Linux? I found two tools, but they do not exactly fit my needs: pdf-...
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Convert HTML String to PDF file
IDE: VS 2022 | .NET 6.0
I'm looking for free .NET library to convert string html to .pdf file.
In the web I found PDFSharp, but I have error with it (desc below)
I tried:
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Blueprint Analysis for paint, software recommendations
I am currently working at a retail paint store (21 years). One of the services I provide is figuring blueprints for various customers that don't know how to or do not have time. I do not charge for ...
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CamScanner alternative for Windows
There is an app for Android: CamScanner - PDF Scanner App
It has many good features, the most amazing from which is automatic crop, edge detection and deskewing the photo of the document.
I use it ...
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Looking for a PDF -> PNG converter that can keep transparency
Problem:
I have a default OSX cursor file, that I want to modify and save as PNG to later load in my program.
Current solution:
I found an online PDF -> PNG converter, which did the job, however ...
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Lightweight PDF reader on Windows with bare minimum text-highlighting feature
I'm looking for a lightweight PDF viewer on PC, that can let me highlight texts and save the highlights.
Other than highlighting, I have no needs for other bloated features.
Thanks!
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Which is the best tool or software for OCR text extraction scanned Bank Statement pdf to text?
My Requirement is to extract the text from scanned pdf using OCR technique for Multiple Bank statements with different formats.
There are might be many libraries and tools are present to extract data ...
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PDF Metadata Editor Freeware that can change the default magnification
I am looking for a PDF Metadata Editor Freeware that can change the Magnification of a PDF document so that, by default, it is set to "Fit to one full page". This can be achieved with Adobe ...
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If I have a pdf and a password protected copy of a pdf with identical data, can I reverse engineer the password?
Basically just the title. Given an encrypted form of a file, can the unencrypted file be used to reverse engineer the password/method of encryption, and is there and software that can do that?
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Extracting Text from PDF Docs into separate new filename Docs
I have a mass number of PDF files (>2k files) that look something similar to this
(Image of Sample PDF)
I have list indentations (A, B, C, D), followed by text. What I'm trying to achieve is to ...
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Need a software for PDF to DOC converter
I'm looking for a software, which is able to convert a pdf document into a doc file. I know there is Adobe Acrobat Professional which does a good job concerning this. The drawback is that it costs for ...
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PDF viewer with multiple groups of files in multiple windows
I have a problem viewing / searching of a multitude of PDF files, like absence of a viewer with multiple groups of files.
I usually use Foxit Reader, which is excellent; it can remember and reopen ...
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Is there any free online application for converting multiple web pages into PDFs of one single, merged or combined PDF online by entering a URL page?
How to online convert multiple web pages (I have .txt file of links or urls) into pdfs of one single, merged or combined PDF online by entering a url page into the application online as input, getting ...
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Managing a reading list of pdf files
I'm an academic and I read a lot of pdf files for my work, mostly scientific papers and books. I have a constantly growing number of files I might want to read, but realistically I will never get to ...
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How can I convert any file to pdf in C#
can anyone suggest to me the best opensource library in asp.net core that converts any file format into the .pdf format? there is a library with the name groupdocs which is converting most of the ...
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PDF to PDF/X conversion .NET
I'm looking for a .NET library (preferably free/open source) or a command line tool to programmatically convert ordinary PDF (or PDF/A if that's easier) files to PDF/X-1a (2001 or 2003) for print ...
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A PDF reader with internal links preview in a pop-up?
Like this :
There is Evince on Linux, but on Windows ?
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How can I save to PDF from Chrome with as good results as Safari?
On macOS, Safari's "Export as PDF..." menu option is fast, and prints to a single page PDF. I'd like to do the same in Chrome.
It seems the recommended way to save a page as a PDF is to &...
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Open source, simple Adobe Acrobat plugin (C++)
I am looking for an open source, simple Adobe Acrobat plugin (C++). That'd be convenient to get started to learn the plugin framework. Preference if the plugin do some text analysis (e.g., spell ...
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PDF accessibility scanner CLI
I have a bunch of PDFs on our website.
We are required to section 508 scan these documents. We use Adobe to check this thus far.
But we need to set up an automated job that checks these PDFs for ...
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Epub to PDF converter, Offline
Almost every app I see is using cloud/server to convert epub to pdf. Is there an offline app that does the conversion locally? If not, what's the reason they do it on the server?
I'm not looking for ...
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ODT to PDF Converter
We have a need to replace LibreOffice headless as a ODT-to-PDF converter.
The software we are looking should have to following requirements:
Convert a massive number (as a batch process) of ODT ...
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PDF reader with search history for Windows
Looking for a PDF reader with search history (say 100 last items) for Windows.
Both commercial and freeware recommendations are welcome.
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Automatically synchronize OneDrive files when edited with specific software on iPad
Is it possible to edit PDF files, (for example,) with OneNote on my iPad and then those edited files are automatically updated also on my OneDrive? With edit, I mostly mean making notes with the Apple ...
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Bulk DjVu to PDF converter
Necessary:
Windows 11 64 bit
Free
Can easily start converting (e.g. through drag and drop, selecting folder) an unlimited number of DjVus to PDF
Ideal:
No bloatware, spam, popups asking me to ...
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Minimally invasive low level PDF editor GUI
I'm looking for a GUI to edit the low level PDF file structure without incremental updates and with the minimal changes possible to the PDF structure. For example, I would like the capability to ...
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