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 PDF text highlighter: how to permanently highlight all occurences of a word at once?
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I need to speed read hundreds or academic articles when doing Systematic Literature Reviews;
the main idea is to do skimming in order to find just the information that I need to exclude/...
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Looking for a free C# library that allows me to get/read PDF bookmarks/outlines/links position/dimension
As the title says, given a PDF file, I want to be able to access all of its bookmarks, reading their corresponding title and dimensions / position in the PDF.
I am looking for a C# library (free for ...
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Transparent PDF compressor?
I would like to be able to use a PDF compressor where I know exactly what it's doing and can control exactly what it's doing. It doesn't need to be the fanciest or have absolutely the most extreme ...
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How to batch highlight (permanently) keywords on PDFs for free?
Considering that:
I'm doing a Systematic Literature Review;
the relevant information is so much easier to find when the keywords I need are already permanently highlighted;
however, manually ...
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PDF reader that display keyword match count by chapter/section in table of contents
Is there a PDF reader for Windows that can display the count of keyword matches in each section or chapter within the PDF's table of contents when performing a search?
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Need a RPA solution to go through a PDF to know to detect whether all required pages are signed
We need a RPA solution that would go through all pages of a PDF file and confirm whether all pages that require signature are signed or not.
Few points to keep in mind:
The RPA solution could be a ...
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How to batch highlight keywords on PDFs for free?
Considering that:
I'm doing a Systematic Literature Review;
the relevant information is so much easier to find when the keywords I need are highlighted that I must have this done;
however, manually ...
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Are there any good tools with GUI for pdf/djvu tagging and searching by tags?
I've been long using FastPhotoTagger for jpg/png/mp4 tagging and searching. While the tool suffices for my personal needs, someone asked me if I could recommend an equally good tool for pdf/djvu ...
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Asp core package which can convert Markdown to PDF
Are there any asp core package which can convert Markdown to PDF?
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How can I search OCR'd PDFs for terms by their relative nearness to one another?
Say I want to search a mathematics PDF for the terms "basis" and "transformation", but "basis transformation" or "transformation basis" aren't located anywhere.
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Adding internal links in a pdf document using free program in ubuntu
I am trying to add a table of contents to a collection of pdfs I have joined to a single pdf to submit for an application. (I used pdf arranger for this)
I have added a first page with the contents, ...
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PDF preview handler with select text / copy capability
I there any PDF preview handler that have SELECT TEXT / COPY capability for Windows (free or paid never mind)? Simply as that :)
Adobe, Foxit, Edge, PDF-XChange, Sumatra PDF don't have that option. ...
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A PDF viewer that can save and reopen tabs at the exact page one last stopped at
I often read PDF ebooks and open multiple pages on different tabs of the same book. e.g. With book X, I open pg 2 on tab 1, pg 20 on tab 2, pg 30 on tab 3 etc. I currently use Chrome to do this. But ...
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iPad or iOS: PDF reader app that can display references when clicking on the corresponding citations
I am looking for an iPad app for reading research papers. This app should be able to display (using tooltip for example) the corresponding reference when the user clicks on a citation).
On macOS, I ...
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Cross-platform (Mac/Win) printing framework that meets following requirements
The platform should meet the following requirements:
Ability to request the installed printers and their corresponding paper trays/sources, and send and print a PDF file to one of these printers and ...
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Is there a decent open-source or low-cost .net SDK that has functions for parsing text from a PDF?
I am trying to write either a standalone Windows Forms application or a VSTO Excel Add-in using C# or VB .net that can read a PDF file and pull data from it. The files I get are lists of traffic ...
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Absolutely Free PDF Tools (Compress, Merge, Split, etc) software for Windows. (Not Web Based)
I need a completely free PDF tools app which could Merge, Split, Compress, Reduce, Crop, etc and all other features and that too without any payment of any money.
Also it should not be cloud based or ...
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Linux CLI Tool to batch convert PDFs to default to Continuous Page Display
I have googled this extensively, but not had any luck. I have a large selection of .pdf files, some of which default to displaying discrete pages or facing pages, and some of which default to ...
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Best tool for building a PDF reader web app
I need to create a web application that conceptually is simple: i need a web application which has a page with a list of pdf, the user can select a pdf and the web app will show it in a nice looking ...
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generate a pdf in C# winforms application
I have a pdf report that I should generate in my WinForms application. The pdf report will include multiple images and a watermark and signatures and a lot of fields. I read about the libraries and ...
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Looking for a software that can transfer my annotations and highlights in PDF and EPUB files?
I need a cross platform software that I can use in Linux, Windows and Android for reading PDF and EPUB files. The main feature that I need is about transferring annotations and highlights files ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
