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Also take a look at PDF Sam for all of your sorting and rearranging needs.
Both have portable apps too that you can load on a Flash Drive and just use on any ole computer.
How to extract pages from a PDF file:
Download PDF-XChange Editor for free or get a similar free PDF editor. There are a lot of them.
Go to the "Document" menu. Click "Extract pages" and write for example 37-39 and click save. Now you have a PDF file with 3 pages from the script.
I'd avoid it, if it drains CPU/battery like Foxit Reader, when moving the mouse while idling.
I'd recommend the much more robust PDF XChange Editor instead, despite it not being in the MS Store.
That said, Foxit's UI works better with touch, and it's good that it's in the MS Store, and we should encourage the devs of PDF-XChange to put their stuff in the MS Store as well.
PDF X-Change Editor/Editor Plus? Perpetual licenses w/ 1-3 year maintenance (per-year maintenance is cheap), volume discounts starting at 3 seats.
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
Always possible there's some part of the subscription that you actually need, but if you just need the basic PDF editing options it's likely worth looking at.
I use PDF X-Change Editor to edit PDFs. I use it for some lightweight personal stuff and it works well. It's a perpetual license and I think it's about as cheap as you're gonna get for something with edit capabilities. Good luck with your search :)
Mein Favorit, seit ich den Adobe Reader rausgeworfen habe: https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
Selbst in der Free version noch prima und mit der "Schreibmaschine" kann man auch Formulare ohne Felder super ausfüllen. Darüber hinaus weitere gute Funktionen (auch abseits von denen, für die man bezahlen müsste). So benutze ich z.B. die Stempel Funktion um schnell eine Unterschrift ins PDF zu zaubern.
My guess is you're not going to be able to do it without some manual action. If your pdf is a scan, then it just won't work. OCR is hit and miss and you might be better off just paying someone on freelancer.com to manually key the data in.
One thing you can try is to open it with Word (2013 and up) but I doubt that will work as 2325 pages is just huge. You can also try Tracker Software Products :: PDF-XChange Editor to copy paste the data into Excel.
Your chances of success really depend on the way the data was formatted in the first place and converted to PDF.
If the data is not sensitive, I'm willing to take a look at it.
PDF-XChange Viewer, or it’s paid counterpart PDF-XChange Editor which offers more complex features. They each come with very customizable interfaces and the free version has a very decent set of features.
PDF-XChange Editor
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
> More than 60% of the features in PDF-XChange Editor do not require a license to use. The remaining features, which are clearly identified, will place a 'trial' watermark on output if they are used without a license.
I'm a long-time fan of PDF Xchange Editor (Plus) which offers a lot more features and is way faster than Adobe Reader and recently upgraded to the Plus version to be able to edit PDFs.
PDF X-Change Editor is hands down the best! Super easy to deploy, license, upgrade and no cloud connected junk. The company has multiple products levels depending on how heavily you want to create, edit or view PDFs. Their free version actually lets you fill in a form and save it.
I really can’t say enough good things about it.
I use this too, for Chrome. But thank you for mentioning it.
I need something for PDFs on a Mac that will let me read specific text I select and not just always read from the beginning of a page. On Windows I've found free version of PDF-XChange Editor lets me do this, and the Edge browser also seems to work for some people. On a Mac I don't know if I just need to use this or if there's other software that will do what PDF-XChange Editor does for me on Windows laptop. My MacBook isn't charged and powered on right now so I can't check.
Ich habe hier den PDF XChange Editor am Start https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor Die Free Version ist schon sehr gut, der Adobe Reader nervt mich zu sehr.
We use a couple of open source/free/cheaper PDF applications:
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- PDF SAM - The free version of this allows page extraction, merging PDFs etc without watermarks
- PDF X-Change Editor (https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor) - This is a much much cheaper alternative. Some of the functions you can get away without paying for but a handful of our users we had no choice but to pay it. The key difference is that it's not a cloud based license, it's a one off fee that's about a 1/4 of the price of an Annual License of Acrobat if my recollection serves.
- Nitro Pro - We have a few users with this. Bit more expensive than PDFXCE but it also uses forever licenses not cloud based ones. The only thing to be wary of is that your license is for the version of the software at that moment in time. Buy a License for v14.....that key is only valid for v14. I'm sure there are more expensive options but we only need a few users to get on this.
I would try to get a list of exactly what functions everyone needs and seeing which PDF apps can/can't perform those actions. Things like E-Sigs are free on PDF X-Change etc....
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As for Photoshop, I'm the only 'user (I'm one as well!)' with a License and I haven't found an alternative that stands up at all. I tried IrfanView which was a free alternative but it was horrible. Once you're used to using all the known Adobe Shortcuts and Modes it's really hard to work with much else.
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But I don't think Adobe have quite the same monopoly anymore when it comes to PDF Editors.
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
Check this out Tracker Software , single payment PDF software that does basically everything the Adobe subscription one does. I've been using it for about a year now and it's brilliant.
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.
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
I've been using PDF-Xchange for years and years. I've never used the accessibility features but it does have them https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor it is a paid app though.
Use PDF-Xchange? You can use the free version to add signatures (comparison).
If you're looking for a great PDF tool check out PDF-XChange Editor ... Note that there is a paid version but the free version is great. (I'm no shill I just dig it. Haven't touched Adobe or Foxit stuff in years.)
> LibreOffice
Though I haven't used the editing tools, rather the Commenting tools, PDF X-change Editor could be a good one. It offers a large amount of tools for editing and can purchase a 1 year license for about $56.00. It also has a trial period I believe.
What I can definitely be sure on is that it offers a lot of commentating and annotating tools for free in its limited form. Offers ability to do a lot of the free commenting features that Adobe offers
May take a little to get used to its layout. Almost looks like the old Word layout but once you get used to it, you may find it pretty good for free in terms of annotating pdfs. Unsure on its editing capabilities.
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
Xodo PDF Editor and Foxit could also be other choices as well. But I'm only familiar with these in terms of their annotating tools, not PDF editing.
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
PDF-XChange Editor. Has free and paid versions, ARM64 MSI installers, it works great on my SPX. 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
This program is what I use. You can open the pdf, select the "Select Text" tool, and single-click on the image. It will highlight the border of the image so you know you have the right item. You MAY need to remove some items if they are over the image by clicking and pressing delete (I had to do this in some Starfinder modules). Once highlighted, copy the image (Control+C) and open GIMP (free image editing tool) and paste the image (Control+V) then export the image from GIMP.
I’ve been using PDF-XChange Editor for years.
The free version is good, significantly better than Acrobat Reader. It gives you 70% of the features in the paid version, for $0.
The paid version you pay about $40 for is amazing - heaps of control in editing documents. I bought it years ago so I could do digital signatures, and I’ve installed it on about 5 machines with the same liscnce without issue. I can’t understand why people would pay for Acrobat DC for $200/yr.
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.
PDF-Xchange Editor from Tracker Software (https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor) on its Convert tab has an option to Recompress Images that has a bunch of options. Not sure if that's part of the free version, but it's at least in the cheaper of the paid versions (perpetual license, but with pretty cheap annual maintenance eventually for ongoing upgrades).
PDF X-Change is my go to. Best PDF software I've used. Lets you markup PDFs without a license, however I bought a license anyway. It was only $50.
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I use it for editing electrical and hydraulic PDFs that we have and it works great.
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I’d recommend checking out PDF-Xchange. https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
We found it does most of what acrobat does for a fraction of the price. Better option than trying to get around license issues.
If not that one there are other paid for options that might work for your company.
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 PDF-Xchange Editor. It's free for viewing and basic annonation, and the paid features are all marked (they still work, just add a badge to the PDF).
I use the Windows freeware PDF-XChange Editor to clean up texts in that way.
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).
Go to Page 2, snapshot the good text, go back to page 1 and Past it, adjusting with the hand tool.
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.
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
Ich habe gute Erfahrungen mit PDF-XChange gemacht. Funktioniert gut und zuverlässig und erlaubt die kommerziellen Features komplett auszublenden. Damit eignet er sich auch für den Einsatz in größeren Umgebungen gut.
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:
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.
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)
I’m a big fan of PDF-Xchange editor. It’s free, but has some more advanced features locked behind a paywall, but I’ve not come across an instance where I needed the advanced stuff.
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
I personally use PDF-Xchange, but trying to replace Adobe at work with anything else never worked well, because too many programs hook into it. PDF-Xchange is free if you use it as a viewer only.
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.
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
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.
We use PDF XChange Editor for everyone's PDF editing in the company - all users throughout the world (maybe about 70000 users worldwide) - with a Corp Word Pack (Global < 75000) licensing - https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/pricing
And then everyone has Adobe Reader.
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)
I recommend you, based on my personnal usage, the PDF X-change editor app.
They offer a free version full of features and with ARM64 executables !
The app is super smooth and render the pages faster than any other apps i tried.
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
Tell me what you think of it x)
I'm so sorry for being this late, I had to keep up with my studies.
just to clarify, only the first chapter of each pdf is in light grey color, while the rest are in a darker color. I will be changing the colors of the first chapters to match the darker color. (expect it to be ready in 8 hours or so, which you can find by opening the links above)
I use PDF-Xchange editor which you can download from their website here.
Again, very sorry for the long delay.
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
For personal use if you want to try it out it’s here. I believe it comes with the PDF printer (“PDFXChange Lite”) as well, but unless you download as a separate thing from their website (here: https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-lite) it’ll print with a watermark. Don’t quite know why that happens as it’s free either way, but I remember that being a thing a few years ago when I downloaded it on my personal computer
If you are looking for something more user friendly, look at PDF-XChange Editor.
It's a lot cheaper than Adobe and a lot of the functionality is free. I'm sure what you are trying to do will be a paid feature, but you can try it in the software before buying a license.
PDF-XChange Editor
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
More than 60% of the features in PDF-XChange Editor do not require a license to use. The remaining features, which are clearly identified, will place a 'trial' watermark on output if they are used without a license.
Try https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor for short PDF files. There is a free version and a pay version. It's geared more towards annotating PDF's but for short (under 300K) PDF files it's great.
PDF-Xchange Editor Plus. Free version allows measurements, scaling, units of your choice.
PDF-Xchange Editor is my favorite - been using it for a couple years now. I ended up upgrading to their paid license to get OCR and other power features, but their free version might do the job for you:
I used my wife's copy of PDF-XChange Editor to remove the colored front and back cover. Added a few blank sheets to account for the endpapers, as well as getting the book to a multiple of four.
On a sidenote, as dodgy as that software sounds I actually found it very helpful in getting the pdf prepped for printing.
You then use Adobe to print booklets, 20 pages at a time. A book this size gives you 13 booklets that need to be stitched together.
PDF Exchange Editor, crappy name but a great product and easy to license on RDS...as in literally just add your key 1 time as admin and hold the rest on file or per user if you need it limited.
You can get built-in OCR with the pro version of PDF exchange. To use it, you open the document in the program and then select ocr from a drop down and let it do its thing for a while. Zero learning curve.
has everything you ask for. Many functions are paid, but there is a portable version, but I recommend you install it to preview it in explorer
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
it's a reader + editor
> pdf reader
> allow me to write/draw notes
Well what you're describing is a PDF Editor or Writer...
PDF X-Change and Foxit are pretty popular
This is what you want. It has most of the features of Acrobat, costs $50 per seat (one-time fee, too!) and I have yet to experience any compatibility issues.
That said, my firm is an insurance agency. We don't deal with super-complicated .pdf files usually. I have no idea how this software performs in other environments.
Absolutely. There is a free version of the Soft Maker Office suite : it's called, somewhat confusingly, Free Office. But it's the same product, with a few features shaved off. Nevertheless, it's one of the best Microsoft Office alternatives around, and it's all many users will ever need.
The paid-for version I would recommend is Soft Maker Office Standard. It's not exactly cheap, at 70 €, but I would say the price is right. It's what Microsoft Office should cost after all those years.
However, if you start with Free Office, it's quite likely you will receive, at some point, a promotional offer to upgrade to Soft Maker Office. I did, and it was a steal, a real no-brainer at 20 €.
Instead of the pay-once model, you can also chose a subscription model, if you prefer. This is a German software publisher which deserves to be better known. It's been around since 1987, so they had quite some time to polish their usability and their compatibility with Microsoft office programs.
I love their interface. It's a brilliant solution to the ribbon conundrum. You can either have a ribbon, or classical menus, and you can even have a mix of both.
PDF X-Change Editor is another splendid program by a splendid publisher (Canadian). Its free version is already very powerful (that's what I use). If you need to create and edit pdfs (as opposed to just reading and annotating them), there are two paid-for tiers you can unlock.
Don't let yourself be discouraged by the somewhat complex structure of their product line. Once you've been over that, it's really worth it. Support is great, even for free users.
Have a look at PDF-XChange: there's a PortableApps version that doesn't require a full installation, it just extracts to a directory.
Okay. Try https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor . The basic program is free, but there are premium features which cost extra to use. This SHOULD get the basics of what you need done.
> Not many pdf viewers designed for tablets allow this simple task. They just make you switch between two pages repeatedly. Not as good as side by side view.
You will love PDF-XChange Editor. It allows you to have multiple views from the same document in a custom vertically/horizontally tiled window or multiple windows, saving multiple sessions, cross search between open documents etc, and it's very resource efficient. Although they added some touch UI, it's still not great for touch.
Lately I've been using PDF-XChange editor (free, Windows). It's been great for that- light weight, but with a lot of features. I only wish it could export my highlights as text.
PDF-XChange Editor offers more functionality than Foxit, while not wasting needless CPU while idling. Too bad they're also stuck in the Windows 7 era.
Try Tracker Software Products :: PDF-XChange Editor. It's actually my main PDF reader (85% of the features are free). It definitely has an SDK, but the question is how much can you do with the free version.
Excel Pdf Viewer has an xlsm file that uses their now defunct PDF Viewer's ActiveX control embedded in an Excel sheet. It may still work with the Editor, as they have merged the 2 products.
Good luck.
PDF X-Change Editor
However it seems that if you want to crop multiple pages at once you have to buy it. ~$45 for the current version + updates for a year.
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/pricing
Maybe you can use their PDF Tools and some scripting to crop all pages automatically for free?