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As long as the PDF is text searchable (You can highlight and copy the text), open the PDF, Select All, Copy. This will copy everything. Paste it in Word Frequency Counter, and it will give you a list of the words and how many times they appear in the document.

Suggest using Programmers Notepad (free at http://www.pnotepad.org/). Very powerful and exact search-and-replace using regular expressions, which, hopefully, will allow you to distinguish the line breaks you want to keep.

I also had met this issue before. I recommend you to use ApowerPDF to solve this problem. It is very simple to convert files with the program. Just create the resume from file you need to convert in the program and save it. Then you will get a PDF one.

I have seen this type of problem with a photoshop mixed text and images brochure. We ended with saving photoshop page to JPEG. Opening JPEG in Faststone Image Viewer and using PDF printer DoPDF, with option 150 DPI for graphics. We print to PDF file and result looks good and file small, ~400 KB for A4 page.

PDF-XChange Editor (freeware version, Windows) can remove annotations that you add with it.

Also, if you want to print it without the added annotations showing, but not delete them, the print menu allows you to do that under Advanced Print Options.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
• portable freeware version - https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2832

If you just want to add writing or annotations on top of the PDF, I would recommend Xournal++:

https://xournalpp.github.io/

If you need to move, resize, or delete elements of the existing PDF, that is a bit more involved.

As well, if you are using Windows you can use a PDF viewer to OCR the scanned files (PDF-XChange Editor uses tesseract I believe), DOS find to extract the job number, and xPDF has a Windows version of pdftotext as well as other command line tools.

• xPDF - http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I interpret the "blocked" message to mean that it is a link that points within the network the transcript was made, and that the "unblock" would be used internally to allow the link to work. The unlicensed version of PDF-XChange Editor does the same thing with its 'watermarks' that are created when you use a licensed function then save the file.

The way I get around this issue when printing is to use PDF-XChange Editor and make an opaque Rectangle (Home tab, Comment, Rectangle) and change the properties to 100% opaque, zero border and white color (or the color of the background of the transcript) and draw rectangles over the Copy of Official Transcript. Then go to the Print menu in PDF-XChange Editor and make sure the Advanced Print Options is on Document and Markings.

NOTE!!: This works if the watermark is NOT covering text, but not if it is.

If the watermark is under or on top of text, I've had some success (depending on the PDF) with the commercial versions of PDF-XChange Editor and Foxit PDF Editor.

Here is the link to the freeware PDF-XChange Editor which I referenced in the first part of this post.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

Using Windows freeware (I use the portable version) PDF-XChange Editor, this is what I do (link to software at the bottom)

• Open the document (ideally one you have not yet marked up.
  
• Use Find to find your search term. The find box appears. Once found,
• press the down menu beside the search box (not in the search box, looks like a v with a line above), only include Page Text, and under Annotate Find Results, choose any one of the choices (I choose underline usually, because if I have marked up the document, I haven't used underline) . This changes the find results into comments.
• Open the Comments pane (Ctrl-M, or under View, Window, Panes) You will see your find results here.

• Highlight all comments (shows how many occurances per page found), right-click, and choose Show Comments, By Type, Underline.

• Right-click the selected comments again (in my case underlined) right-click and choose Summarize Comments.

• Change the Output type to .txt, .csv, or whatever esired, and make sure the layout is Comments Only. Press [OK]

You now have a text document with all your search term.

To do the next search term, simply press the more menu on the comments pane (2 v's one above the other), and repeat with the next search term.

It took me about 2 minutes for the first one, then less than a minute for each subsequent one. I then opened the resulting text files (I named them by the search term), used my favourite text editor to reduce each file to a single line like you have above, and created my index.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
• portable freeware version - https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2832

I do not use web apps, so I cannot help you with Xodo. However, there are a lot of freeware apps that will do the trick.

PDF-XChange Editor (freeware version, windows) allows you to scroll through the document, and on any page you want a bookmark, just click the Add button in the Bookmarks pane. If you highlight text on that page, the highlighted text becomes the text of the bookmark. I do that with a lot of my coursework materials.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

Have you tried a non-browser PDF viewer. A guess (only a guess, since I am going only from your images) is that the pieces on top of the grey are things called annotations (like comment fields), and that Edge and Chrome are not printing them, or that the grey are annotations and Edge/Chrome are printing them.

There are other products, but I use the freeware version of PDF-XChange Editor, whose print settings allow you to choose whether to print annotations (called Markings in the print dialogue) plus other advanced features. Use the preview to study which prints what you are supposed to print.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I do not know if this will work for your specific task, but there are programs that convert PDFs into Word or Excel--it depends on the PDF(s) involved. The freeware, windows PDF-XChange Editor can save text to Word, Excel or plain text. You might try those.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

You may need to OCR the text first, if the PDF is in image format. PDF-XChange Editor's OCR is decent but as always, go over the data after scraping.

Many programs purport to do that. As I do not use MS word or excel anymore, I have not tested this function. That said, PDF-XChange Editor includes .docx and .xlsx (Word and Excel) as options in its Save As.

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

Let's describe the PDF file first, because I am not sure what you have or am asking about.

Is this a one-page PDF file but the page is supersized? And if so, when you fit it on a single page it becomes unreadable? If so, a straight shrinking of the PDF will get you small text. You can instead split the PDF into multiple pages either in the print menu of your viewer (some viewers such as PDF-XChange Editor have this capability), or by splitting the page into multiple pages with something like PDF Arranger (all software I mention in my posts is freeware, usually Windows, and portable if possible--for privacy reasons I do not suggest or use online resources that might do the same thing). Let's say your PDF is the size of 3 normal-sized pages, left-to-right. In PDF Arranger, highlight the page and from the menu choose Split Page, choose vertical split, each one 33%.

If it is an image PDF with text boxes, and you want the text boxes primarily, then you are talking annotations. Assuming that the PDF hasn't converted (flattened) the annotations into the image, you might try PDF-XChange Editor. In PDF-XChange Editor, you can highlight the text boxes and then open properties to make the font whatever large size you want. Woth the hand tool, move the text boxes where you want them to be, then do the resizing.

In PDF-XChange Editor, you can also, in the print menu under Advanced Print Options, print just the markups only.

If neiother of these things, reply with more detail, please.

• PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

The big limitation are PDFs that are images--they have to be OCR'd, and the results may not be reliable. This is true for ALL products, save expensive specialty products. A few months ago I tested a number of products and even web sites, and found this the case with all the free or trial ones.

That said, I use PDF-XChange Editor. It is not on the web, so no security issues. The freeware version, windows, and you can choose a portable version if you want/need to run it from a USB, has a very decent OCR, but also a good search function.

Use Ctrl-F to do the search for the specific text. Once it finds the first one, click the down menu outside the right of the word in the Find box, and choose Annotate Find Results. Choose any annotation style.

Then Ctrl-M brings up the Comments pane, and you see all the pages with your results. Note the pages, go to the print menu, and print those pages, (e.g., 2,17,93-94 prints those 4 pages).

• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

While a picture would be nice, I'll take a guess at what you might do.

Download and open PDF Arranger (it is freeware, windows, and portable). Load your 3-slide PDF in it, highlight all the pages that have that same layout, and choose from the menu (3 bars, upper right, or just right-click) and choose Split Page. It works by percentages, so you might have to do trial and error (there is an Undo function). Split the pages, so that you end up with a bunch of pages, some of which have slides, and some of which have the 3 lines. Next select all the ones with 3 lines and delete them. Use Ctrl-click to select them, or if only the slides are selected, you can inverse the selection in the menu.

You end up with one slide per page. Your PDF viewer might be able to print Multiple Pages per sheet on the Print Menu. If yours doesn't, another Windows portable app, PDF-XChange Editor, does. I use the freeware version.

Software links:

• PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I don't know nor use Drawboard. There are, however, a lot of offline PDF annotators that seem to do everything that Drawboard advertises and more. I personally use PDF-XChange Editor for Windows (freeware--I like the portable version). While offline (by preference I won't use online if I can), it allows all kinds of annotations, comments, lines and shapes, adding of images, stamping, OCR, and more in the freeware version.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

PDF-XChange Editor is a viewer/annotator that has a print menu that allows you to tile large pages. For your requirement I would choose on that menu, Tile Large Pages, Page Zoom at 100%, and untick auto-center. Other items are optional.

If the text/image you want is centred, and you do not need the white space above and below, you can first cut those pieces off using PDF Arranger. Open that PDF and on the image right-click and choose Split Pages. Choose horizontal split, and have 3 rows if there is white space both above and below. It works by % of the page, so you may have to use Undo if you don't get it right the first time. After that, you have your 8.5" page, and whatever length. If less than 11" then you have a single printed page at 100%

• PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
• PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

both are freeware and work in Windows.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor (Windows, freeware)

Opens it easily. Adobe has this annoying habit of insiting on latest versions, and with each version adds features that may or may not require that version, but annoys you with that upgrade notice anyway.

For something like this you would need support in the PDF viewer that the receiver of the PDF uses.

What may be easier is to tell the receiver of such a PDF to use a software like Xournal++ to place the signature. They could either use a prepared image of their signature or draw their signature into the "sign here" box created by you.

For something like this you would need support in the PDF viewer that the receiver of the PDF uses.

What may be easier is to tell the receiver of such a PDF to use a software like Xournal++ to place the signature. They could either use a prepared image of their signature or draw their signature into the "sign here" box created by you.

Don't know but you can safely use Office Reader by nTools

Do you have to send in Outlook the pdf, or can it be a page image? If the customer is okay with an image in the PDF then my favourite editor, PDF-XChange Editor, does it very well.

1 piece of setup: Go into File, Preferences, Snapshot tool, and make sure "Automatically copy image to clipboard" is ticked, and under it, Select ALL type, is set to "Select nearest whole page". [OK] and exit preferences.

Now, when you open the invoice, Click on the Snapshot Tool on the Home ribbon, and click the page, go to Outlook, and in the body, Paste (Ctrl-V). You can very quickly do multiple pages. Click page on invoice, paste into message, next page do same, and so on.

Like said, it will be an image copied, but there are no temporary files, and the workflow is very fast.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

PDF-XChange Editor is my favourite software for annotating PDFs. I use the freeware windows version. I can add graphics and links, as well as text-boxes, typewriter text (no box) or call-out boxes (text-box with arrow). The freeware version can add sound or 3d media (haven't tried 3d media yet), whereas the licensed version can also add videos and more. You can set it to add clickable hyperlinks as well.

The annotations are all on a separate layer from the base text/layout. The print menu allows you to print, or ignore, annotations.

There are other software that have some, most, or more of these capabilities, but this one I know best and a lot of people seem to like.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I don't know what PDf viewer/editor you are using, but with PDF-XChange Editor (Windows, freeware version), my print menu hsa "advanced print options", and if I choose "Document and Markups", then markups, comments, and highlights get printed (in other words, it will print the annotations layer.) Check your viewer first for its advanced print options, if they exist.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I use PDF-XChange Editor (Windows, freeware version). By opening the properties pane (Ctrl-`) you can see the font of any text you click on. If it is not a font that you already have, search the internet for it; there are very few fonts that you cannot download/install for free. I then click on the Typewriter function, and change its properties (again, properties pane) to mimic the font and size, etc. that I need to use. I also make it 100% opaque if I need to type over something (e.g. change date)

If you have the paid commercial version of PDF-XChange Editor you can edit the document directly instead of using typewriter.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I use the Windows freeware PDF-XChange Editor to clean up texts in that way.

1. Choose the Snapshot Tool to rectangle all the stuff you do want and Paste where you want at the top (you can adjust the placement with the Hand Tool if need be).

2. Go to Page 2, snapshot the good text, go back to page 1 and Past it, adjusting with the hand tool.

3. If there is junk sticking out from behind the snapshot, you can either make a bigger snapshot and redo step 1 or 2, or you can first cover up the background with a white rectangle of 100% opacity and border of 0 points, but I'll leave rectangle properties for you to explore.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I use the freeware (Windows) version of PDF-XChange Editor instead of Foxit.

When I open a PDF/A file, it tells me so, and gives me a button to Enable Editing. Click on that button, and save the file (you can use Save or Save As.

PDF-XChange Editor has a decent OCR, better than most I've tried.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

PDF-XChange Editor can let you see the fonts used in a document, so you can mimic it using Typewriter mode.

It is Windows, and has a freeware version that can do the above (have done so myself).

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I am not familiar with Clip Studio Paint, but the freeware version of PDF-XChange Editor allows the insertion of hyperlinks.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I swear by PDF X-Change Editor (Windows, free version, installed or portable versions available.

It allows easy highlighting, text boxes, arrows and lines, rectangles, stamps (you can add your own), and a lot more.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I like Foxit, but personally use PDF-XChange Editor because its freeware version also comes in Portable mode, so I could run it from a USB stick at work. As facesofvader mentioned, as long as the PDF is not locked down, you should be able to use the Hand (select) tool to highlight the signature field and delete it. You may or may not be able to convert it to a text input field without a paid or trial version (both Foxit and PDF-XChange Editor have trial versions if that is the case)

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

There are lots of options. Here is a simple one.

In PDF X-Change Editor (freeware version, Windows), open the Comment ribbon, right-click on Typewriter and choose Properties. Change the Font colour to White.

Fine an empty spot to place the typewriter text and type the text. When done, use the Hand tool to make the typewriter box small. You can move it around to a spot a random intermediary is unlikely to click. Your recipient will have to click around until the cursor changes to find it, then expand the box size. They can click inside the text box, and Ctrl-A to select all, and see the text.

You can hide it one step further by making a rectangle (white, opaque, 0pt border), and placing it on top, or by placing a stamp on top. the non-recipient will click on this top stamp or rectangle, and most will not think that there is a box beneath it.

https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

My favourite, PDF-XChange Editor, has various drawing tool, and also a distance measure, as well as horizontal and vertical rulers if you like. There is a specific ruler for measuring things at any angle, as well as measuring multi-sided perimeters of images or areas.

Freeware, Windows, install or portable versions

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I am a longtime devotee of the Windows Freeware PDF-XChange Editor. It is continually updated, and the free version can do most of what the paid version can do, and there is not much for which there isn't a workaround for those things that it cannot do. There is a setting under Preferences, Registration to hide anything that is only in the paid version, so you don't have to learn those things the hard way.

Like other editors, it also functions as a viewer.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I haven't tried to do what you want, but PDF-XChange Editor (freeware, Windows) has navigate forward and back buttons. I click on an internal link, read whatever, then click on the back button. They are at the status bar, next to the page number area. The default hotkeys are Alt-Left for back and Alt-Right for forward.

It does not appear that PDF-XChange Editor can do exactly what you want, however.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

The freeware version of PDF-XChange Editor has many optimization options (similar to Acrobat's audit usage, but if you want to go freeware, this will do more or less identical functions).

Click on File tab, Save As, Save as type, Optimized PDF, and the Options but will be clickable. You have options to downsample image colours and dpi (this is my biggest single use of Optimized); Fonts; discarding unused or unneeded options or metadata (such as alternate images or thumbnails, embedded print settings or bookmarks, attachments, hidden layers, etc.; and general cleanup.

You can find it here. I use the freeware, portable (zip) version so it doesn't leave a footprint (habit from days when I visited various offices).

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I do it all the time with texts that come without bookmarks. Here are two solutions:

1. pdftk Bookmarks Editor. Freeware and portable for Windows. Open or list the pages you want bookmarks. THen load the PDF into PDF Bookmarks Editor. Choose Edit Bookmark Data. On each line you put Page#{tab}level{Section Title} The level is indent level. Save this file and Update PDF. Done.

2. PDF-XChange Editor. The freeware version is also portable, and for windows, and works. I use it for all my school texts and articles. Go to any page you want bookmarked, press Ctrl-B to bring up the bookmarks sidebar, and click on the add bookmark icon. If you have the title selected on the page when you click on add bookmark, it will make that the title in the bookmarks. You can then use drag, or alt-left, right, up, or down to move the bookmarks in the bookmark sidebar.

I use pdftk Bookmarks Editor when I want to do a whole book and have multiple chapter, section, and other bookmarks. For just a few bookmarks, or to add something to a bookmarked PDF then PDF-XChange Editor is easier. However, I also as a student use pPDF-XChange Editor to add comments and annotations, highlight my readings, etc. so you may want that one in any case

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

pdftk Bookmarks Editor https://pdftk-bookmarks-editor.sourceforge.io/

BTW, everything here is freeware. PDFtk (PDF toolkit, or PDFtk Server) is the grand-daddy of PDF tools outside of Adobe, and is the reason I have always found alternatives to it. I've used it for 18 years, and thought I'd give it a plug.

Any editor that allows annotations should be able to help you add a signature field, by which I mean a line or a box in which the client handwrites their signature.

PDF-XChange Editor is a windows freeware that does just that (it also comes in a commercial version, but you don't need it for this). Just click on the Comment tab and choose either Text Box for a box, or Line for an underline. You can use Typewriter to put below the signature line/box the word Signature or whathaveyou.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

If you want digital signatures, I am not aware of any free versions that will do it. Most demand a commercial service.

I don't use online PDF resources, but it appears that you have a PDF that has layers. The freeware PDF-XChange Editor in the hand mode often allows you to select, one-at-a-time, annotation boxes, including text boxes, and deleting them by pressing {Del} It the text box layer is "beneath" the top layer (but appears on top) or is on the base layer, you might have to use the paid version. It is usually the paid versions of any PDF software that can deal with these base layer issues.

If you can move the text boxes, then moving them to the margin might be something to try. Once out of the way, the free version of PDF-XChange Editor can make rectangles to cover them.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor (Windows)

The best one for me is AmindPDF. Up to now, that is the best I've ever used for editing pdfs.

Simple & beautiful UI and this app is filled with so much features for free.

This app lets me edit so easily, it automatically traces the colors and fonts and helps edit the pdf accordingly just by one click. Logos can be edited as well and can be moved as desired in any flattened pdf too.

Most importantly, its monthly membership is cheaper than other apps, especially adobe. I remember only 1.99$ per month for the first time. I just found this app accidentally and I'm so glad I did.

Well, in this case, you should try AmindPDF. Up to now, that is the best I've ever used for editing pdfs. Simple & beautiful UI and this app is filled with so much features for free.

Most importantly, its monthly membership is cheaper than other apps, especially adobe.

I remember only 1.99$ per month for the first time. I found this app accidentally and I'm so glad I did.

You should try AmindPDF, it has these functions but for watermark, you have to pay a little, I remember only 1.99$ per month for the first time, its monthly membership is cheaper than other apps. I just found this app accidentally and I'm so glad I did.

time sensitive - Jan 10, 2022 only

This might help your issue, and I do not like to advertise for others, but today,on GiveAwayoftheDay, they are advertising free license for PDF Fixer, which may or may not help with this or other PDF problems. It claims to work with PDF files that some other tools cannot. It may or may not help with the jumbled words, if it has anything to do with the PDF's internal tables.

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-fixer-pro/

Good only Jan 10, 2022. Lifetime license if you do not upgrade.

looks really nice. If it was opensource I would definitely use it. Howeverm it's not packaged for any distribution and running random shell scripts to install freemium programs isn't my thing.

If you want any linux user to even consider using you package, take a look at flatpaks - https://flatpak.org/. Its basically a package manager that works for most linux distributions and make your program easier to discover if you publish on flathub.org . I prefer comand line utilities, but I can see more casual users who work with pdfs all the time, wanting to have a tool like the one you are offering.

If you can export your scanned PDF to TIF, or scan your worksheets to TIF, you can use a raster image processor such as GIMP to remove the handwriting.

It's easier if the TIF is in color, and your writing is in color as well, but you can do it with a good grayscale scan as well.

Basically, you just select the color and delete it, or change it to another color, and you can remove you writing. May be other ways, but I'm pretty sure you can do what you want with GIMP.

as /u/facesofvader said, each page is an image, so the best you can do is cut or snip the images from each page in the best resolution you can get. There are a couple of options that come to mind

Open the document to the best zoom you can such that each snake image fills up a sizable portion of the screen. Use a screen capture utility. There are a number of good ones at https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?sc=184, all freeware and portable for the windows platform.

2nd method. Command line, but very fast. muTool can extract all images (pages) in one go with the command line

mutool extract yourfile.pdf

https://mupdf.com/downloads/

You will get one image per file created. Open each in a graphic view/editor, and cut out each image that you want. I prefer Irfanview, but there are other high quality ones out there as well.

If you want to edit the text straight-off, you will have to buy a product. However, I use the freeware PDF X-Change Editor (Windows) and do the following which works for much of what I want to do:

Use the rectangle tooll (white, no border, opaque) to cover up or redact anything you don't want.

Use either text box or typewriter mode to type in new text. Use Properties to change font.

PDF X-Change Editor https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I found out by accident that the portable freeware PDF Arranger, will get past many (most? all?) protected pdfs. Just drag and drop the PDF into PDF Arranger and Save As to a temporary PDF, then load the PDF into a viewer that has text select (I like PDF-XChange Editor, also portable and freeware). to do that kind of stuff.

The reason I emphasize portable is that these can work off a USB or download to a temp directory, without adding temporary files that you aren't aware of or changing the registry. I used portable tools when I worked in a secure environment.

PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I'm not currently aware of a tool to do that automatically, but PDF-XChange Editor, on the status lie, shows the x/y co-ordinates. The Perimeter tool shows distance perimeter, angle, width and height, while the status bar shows the cursor's current X and Y.

https://help.tracker-software.com/pdfxp9/index.html?perimeter-tool_ed.html

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

PDF-XChange Editor (free [not a trial] and portable) can do what you want, I think I haven't done it with a form, but with other pdf documents It is under the Home tab, Objects, Add, Image.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

Can you replicate the font and font size? If so, instead of trying to match by typing in place, (it looks like the original had kerning or something in it), consider covering over the English text with text box(es). I don't use Acrobat, but in my PDF-XChange Editor, I have the default for text boxes to be white with a 0-width border (so that it works like white-out)

I am sure I have a smaller utility somewhere, but in PDF-XChange Editor, Under File, Document Properties, the fonts used in the document are listed. You can also highlight some of the text from the box and use Text Properties.

If you use any kind of cover-up method, you will need to flatten the annotations (the text box). The only portable freeware I am aware of is the command-line tool, qPDF. This will be the last step to merge the text boxes into the original

Syntax:

qpdf.exe --flatten-annotations=all pdfwithtextboxes.pdf finalproduct.pdf

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

qPDF - https://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdf/

Both are portable and freeware. PDF-XChange Editor is only in Windows. qPDF also has a linux version.

Have a look at using FlowPaper for this (https://flowpaper.com). Flowpaper splits the publication in chunks and compresses the output. A 1000- page publication will load just as fast as a 10 page publication after it's been processed

I don't do iOS, so from general principles and a bit of searching,

Using Notes (comes with iOS, I think) https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/12/18/attach-files-photos-videos-to-notes/

I also don't do sensitive things online if I can help it, but this one only keeps the files online for an hour, and sounds reasonable

https://smallpdf.com/blog/insert-image-into-pdf

There are quite a few places where you can remove the password online. One I use is:
https://smallpdf.com/unlock-pdf

If it doesn't work, just try another site. Google "remove pdf password online"

It appears they are in the midst of changing their web site. It is now pdf.online, but the knowledge base with answers still seems to be inaccessible.

I found at the bottom of https://pdf.online/legal a link "Help us improve" where you can send your query. There is also this link: https://www.xodo.com/support.html

PDF-XChange Editor free version can do it. It's called Add Object (Image). You draw a rectangle on the pdf, and it opens up an explorer window to select your photograph pic

If you don't have a place on the form, you can add the pic as a separate page with PDF Arranger. Open PDF Arranger, and drag and drop the PDF and any photos. The photos show up as separate pages. Save or Save As.

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor - free, portable version available

PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger - free, always portable

You can do two things:

1. Using OCR to scan each page and convert the graphics or characters into real characters. However, the font used to display these characters might not be the same as the original ones.
2. Use a vector graphics application like Inkscape to trace the character outlines into vector graphics. Note that this will give you vector graphics but not characters themselves, i.e. selecting the text as text will not be possible. See https://inkscape.org/en/doc/tutorials/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html for an example on how to do this.

You could also combine these two steps.

I would recommend using something like FlowPaper instead of supplying the PDF https://flowpaper.com/

It compresses the output and optimizes the publication so that a 10000 page document loads as fast as a 10 page document no matter which page you want your visitors to start on

The utility jpdftweak (java based), can resize all pages instantly using its Page size Tab. It can scale to a wide variety of preset sizes, more than you'll ever need, and changes all pages to that size.

Download: http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/

Manual: http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html

If you are still looking for a solution, I think I found it with jpdftweak (http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/).

It is java-based, and really non-intuitive, but it works. Look at the manual page on the web site.

To make 4 pages per fold, go to the Shuffle/N-up tab, tick Shuffle Pages, Choose the preset: Booklet Reorder then tick "Shuffle blocks of" and put in the number 4

Choose an output file name and click Run. It is a bit slow, but it works.

Hi OP! My name is Eric Shore, and I'm the VP of Engineering at Datalogics. We offer several ways to convert PNG files to PDFs - hopefully one of these will satisfy your requirements.

FLIP2PDF is a command line tool that leverages high-quality Adobe technology to convert image and other file formats to PDFs. You can download a free trial to process your files locally, or you can try the web demo right on the product page, though the demo will apply a watermark.

I think your best option is to use our new cloud-based PDF Utility in Zapier, which offers the same PNG to PDF solution in a user-friendly, no-code environment. It's free and easy, and you won't need an account with us to use our PDF Utility app, but you will need a free Zapier account to send your files to our app. Hope this helps!

Hi OP! My name is Eric Shore, and I'm the VP of Engineering at Datalogics. We've been around over 50 years, helping users solve exactly these sorts of document problems through software development kits and command line applications, and now we're looking to make these solutions even easier to access via cloud-based PDF utilities. We are currently working to add PDF merge capabilities to our free no-code solution through Zapier, and we'd love to hear your feedback to make sure our merge options will solve your problem!

PDF X-Change Editor - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

What I do with this is to make an text box (right-click on the text-box icon and choose text box pallette). Make sure opacity is 100%, and border width is 0 (no border). I assume you have a white background, so make the colour white. You can then make text boxes over anything you want to redact. If you want to replace something, perhaps a URL or email address, you can do it with this method as well, as it is a text box.

I am not sure if I fully understand your need. It sounds like the manual is on a web page, and there are links to each chapter, but each chapter is its own PDF. You'd like to download them all, and retain some kind of menu/bookmark system to open up each PDF when you need it. Is this correct?

Download all the chapter PDFs. You need to, anyway. You can put them all together by dragging all the files into PDFtk Builder Enhanced (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftk-builder-enhanced/), and join them into a single file. You can change the order of the files to suit your needs.

When you do so, the Join Files screen will show you how many pages you have in each file. Jot these down. File1.pdf 11pp, File2.pdf 23pp, etc.

Unless you have many dozens of files, I find the easiest thing to do is to then open the joined file into a PDF editor that can work with bookmarks. I like PDF X-Change Editor - (https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor) Ctrl-B brings up a bookmark pane, and I simply scroll down to each chapter heading in turn, highlight the title from the first page, and drag it onto the bookmark pane. Very fast.

Other commenters will have other solutions, some perhaps easier or better, but this one I like and it works well for the job I've described.

I also dislike subscription fees, and will do much to avoid them (use LIbreOffice instead of MS Office, etc.)

My vote is PDF-XChange Editor, free version (https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor)

If you want the extra features, you can purchase it and they specifically mention NO subscriptions (https://www.tracker-software.com/licensing)

You didn't mention Android on your initial post.

If you have a descent screen size, a descent amount of memory and a mouse or stylus ... you can try userland which will allow you to run inkscape and libreoffice on your phone.

By the way, it is much easier to install Inkscape/LibreOffice on Linux/Windows/MacOS.

You can definitely try out QuickScan - Document Scanning App which is available on both Android and iOS store.

You can select such PDF that contains actually 2 consecutive pages of a book fitted in that one single page from Gallery. Then you have to go to Edit option. Select Crop and cut the page to be separated into two halves.

The App is free to install and this particular edit feature is also available for free.

https://apps.apple.com/ao/app/quickscan-app/id1493336495

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techno.quick\_scan&hl=en\_IN

Hello,

I suggest using FileStar. It is a desktop file conversion application that is very easy to use and most of all secure for your confidential statement. I find that it converts PDF documents to CSV maintaining the same layout format. Download the app then:

• Right-click on the PDF file(s) on your computer and select convert with FileStar
• Type in 'convert to CSV' on the search box
• Click RUN
• The CSV file(s) will be automatically saved the folder with the original PDF file.

Hope this helps you out.

Have a look at Xournal which is a tool that can read PDFs and allows drawing lines, text, images, ... over it in a MSPaint like fashion. However, you retain the ability to delete individual drawn elements, move them, ... The result can be stored again as PDF.

I've been using this software for years and "it just works". One caveat: I'm using Linux but there is a Windows version, and since it is free, just try it out to see if it works for you.

It looks like someone printed a design from another format to PDF.

If you can't get access to the original file (I'm assuming it's some sort of vector graphics format), you could load the PDF pages into a vector designer like Affinity Designer, it's a graphics design application that can load PDF's.

This will let you select the objects from the various pages and put them onto one, new, single page.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer

There's a free trial, and I'm guessing you can do what you need without paying for the app, but it's a handy tool to keep around for a very reasonable price (compared to Adobe and others), also works on Windows, Mac, iPad, and more.

If on Windows, take a look to my PDF-ShellTools, split and rotate pages tools.

Take a look to the PDF-ShellTools split/extract pages tool. For your case, to split each page to an individual PDF, set the split rule to X1.

The split tool of PDF-ShellTools, a Windows Shell integrated application I develop, splits without adding any variable data, so, as long you are splitting the same PDF, you will always get PDFs with the same bits.

>Compressing and merging are the most important factors.

Take a look at jPdf Tweak. I'm not sure if it has CLI or not. Also search for the 'pdf' tag in Software Recommendations Stack Exchange

Master PDF Editor is mostly free. It's not open source, though. I think in the new version (version 5) there are watermarks, but if you download version 4 from somewhere, you don't have that issue.

https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor/

Of course, there is. I recommend this free website Smallpdf. You just need to upload your password-protected PDF file and enter your password. This site will convert the password-protected PDF file into an unprotected PDF file with all contents unchanged. You can then download the unprotected PDF to your computer.

Just tried it... and its pretty useless for bigger files since the max file size seems to be 5mb
I would suggesting using smallpdf.com instead, use incognito to get unlimited free trials and file limit is 200mb from what I remember

There're many online tools for unlocking a PDF, try this one: Unlock PDF – Free Online PDF Password Remover (smallpdf.com) , just drop the PDF there and you'll get a editable PDF

Method 1. Download pdftkbuilder. Drag the 8 documents into the window, and designate page 8 for each, click on Save As, and name the result something like "SiteH.pdf". Voila, an 8 page document. For the other 100 sites, just change the page number for each of the 8 documents, and go on

Method 2. Download pdftk.exe and place it with the 8 PDFs. Open up a command window. Using Notepad, create Makefiles.bat with the following line.

pdftk A=file1.pdf B=file2.pdf C=file3.pdf D=file4.pdf E=file5.pdf F=file6.pdf G=file7.pdf H=file8.pdf cat A8 B8 C8 D8 E8 F8 G8 H8 output SiteH.pdf

Now copy this line 100+ times in notepad and replace the A8 B8, ... with the page number you want; the first part of the line remains the same.

Run the batch file, and it will do everything for you.

PDFTK rocks!

In this case I would go the low effort route: Use tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) to do the OCR part and "pdftotext" from the poppler utils to convert all PDFs to text. The quality should be fine. Works on Linux and most probably also natively on Windows.

I think it is because the document is encrypted.

Try to open the PDF with PDF Exchange Viewer, select File - "Document Properties..." - Security. In the pane "Document Permission Detail" state what operations are allowed.

Foxit's Free Reader will allow you to export all highlighted text from a PDF. Look under the Comments tool for 'Export'.

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/

I use FoxIt Reader. The new version is structured like Microsoft Office 2010. This company used to only specialize in this PDF Reader, but it seems they've expanded on to bigger horizons. If you install, make sure you say no to any offers like the 14-day trial for their PhantomPDF service.
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdfreader.pdfeditor.pdfreadeforandroid.pdfeditorforandroidfree I use this app, you can search for specific words and pages and go to that place really

You can use AmindPDF, which can extract any page or several pages into a single file through page management, or rotate, add, delete, etc.

amindpdf