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Ich hab mit PDFsam recht gute Erfahrungen gemacht.

Ja, es ist in Java geschrieben, aber das bedeutet jetzt nicht, dass es unsicher ist. Was potentiell unsicher ist, ist das Java-Plugin für den Browser.

Working with large pdfs is a pain. Because it sync's the pages when you are reading it - every time you close the file it tries to sync with the cloud. Save yourself the pain and split the PDF into multiple smaller file.

I used https://pdfsam.org/ before to do this. Instead of a 100mb PDF, I went down to more manageable 6mb files.

>I'm looking for a good basic editor to add, extract, delete pages

Not sure how good it is for privacy, but it is opensource and I use it a lot - PDFSam https://pdfsam.org/

Modifica il pdf togliendo le prime pagine e le ultime, se rompono ancora i coglioni aggiungici una prima pagina in cui fai finta che sia una ricerca o checcazzo e se non funziona in seconda pagina ci metti un bestemmione e un commento su sua mamma e glielo riporti. Casi estremi lo tagli in pezzi da 100. Consiglio programma PDFSAM per tagliare e unire che è gratis e opnesource

The plain installer doesn't do that - on the page https://pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-basic/ , scroll below the "Windows downloader" and you will get links to the Windows MSI installer and a portable version (and the MacOS and Linux versions)

PFD Split and Merge.

I just use the basic (free) version

https://pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-basic/

You just drag in the two files into the merge tool and select the pages you want to include, then it spits out a combined pdf.

Best way: Use a printer with a document feeder.

Other way: scan the documents seperate and use a pdf merge tool like PDF Sam https://pdfsam.org/ (opensource) and the free version will merge pdf's without any watermarks.

I used pdfsam a lot a few years ago to split and rearrange PDF files. It's an open source thing that I used on Linux at the time but it might help.

If not try searching for pdf splitter or similar. There are a lot of programs out there that can handle that aspect.

Edit to say it's cross platform so it's not strictly Linux, just that the version in familiar with was.

I've been looking for a solution to this problem because I wanted to combine commercial documents for my accountant into one big document that's easy to print. Regrettably, my pdf software (pdf-xchange editor) doesn't allow merging the documents when they are protected against extraction of pages by the author, which was the case for some documents.

I found PDFsam basic to be a good & incredibly fast open source option for merging files offline. It doesn't care about the author's restrictions. It's available for any major desktop OS. While the basic version is free, advanced features come with a cost, which makes this one significantly more trustworthy for me than some other options which are available online.

You can export raster images to PDFs in gimp, and export vector images to PDFs in Inkscape. (For that matter, with cups, any application that can print images can print to PDF, which is another kind of "conversion".)

There are GUIs for combining and rearranging PDFs like pdfsam and pdfarranger.

That said, both things are something I'd much rather do from the commandline. If you have an entire folder full of jpgs or pngs and want to convert them all to PDFs and combine them, doing it from the commandline is relatively easy. Opening them and exporting them seems like a pain. And there are so many options (qpdf, pdfjam, pdftk, stapler, ghostscript, etc.)

If I understand correctly, you want to merge PDFs basically. I think PDF Sam Basic (open-source too I think) and Sejda Desktop might work, depending on how many PDFs you need to edit every day.

Edit functions such as split, merge, extract, mix and rotate are all free. Yes, they have a premium version, but the free version is definitely way more than a glorified viewer: https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/

>They paywalled the ability to rotate PDF's.

I highly recommend PDFsam (https://pdfsam.org/). PDFsam Basic can do file rotations, is free, and comes as an MSI installer with parameters to customize what the first-time setup is for your users. It is an amazing program.

There is a free program called PDF Split and Merge which would allow you to combine the PDFs into a single document: https://pdfsam.org/ Depending on the structure you may be able to open in Excel and extract the details.

There are a variety of command line tools like HexaPDF and qpdf that can do this; however, they need to be used on the command line.

You might wanna give PDFsam a try - the basic version is available for free and allows you to do what you want.

Use WFDownloader's crawler to download just the pdfs. There is an option to select documents. To merge the pdfs, you could try PDFSam.

AutoHotKey is pretty useful for automating Windows tasks, RealTerm for troubleshooting serial comms, PDFsam for doing PDF merges/splits/rotates/etc...

I had a look at the tutorial. I didn't see where it could be done either, except towards the end it says something about editing and to remember they are only text markdown files. One could open the note directory and copy the notes into one large note. Then you could export it as a pdf.

The way I'v3e done it before was just to export each file as a pdf, and then use PdfSam to organize and combine them. This will enable you to print off as one.

You might be able to use PDFSam to cut up the PDFs, but yeah, PDFs are not good to crop etc. I ended up buying it, but the free version is still pretty useful.

I second the comment about trying to get your hands on a copy of Acrobat. Although it may still not let you crop etc, you can use it to enter metadata (document properties) in PDFs.

You MAY be able to extract images from PDFs using...Perhaps Libre Office. I know there used to be a Word plugin which would extract images (but that's ages ago, so who knows now).

Good luck.

I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:

• Pdfsam.org

I did the honors for you.

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I'm sure others have better recommendations for your usage case, but for OCR I use neocr - https://sourceforge.net/projects/ne-ocr/ - if you have specific source material that is unique you may need to train it but it doesn't take long until it works damned well.

Editing... hmm, so like you have a PDF with text in it then want to edit it in place? Yeah I'm at a bit of a loss for free open source stuff that does this well. I mean, there's a few paid programs for Windows that I know (BlueBeam Revu - better than Adobe Acrobat) and stuff like Nitro but short of that I'm not sure.

You could give https://pdfsam.org/ a try, it might help you deconstruct PDF's then reconstruct them? There's also http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfarchitect but I've never used it.

You have https://pdfsam.org, but at least support the developers if you find it useful. Open source software takes time and dedication.

Edit: read your answer and came to the conclusion that that's not what you're trying to do. As someone else said here, create your form in a document writing program and then export it to pdf.

The free version of PDF Split and Merge is very good.

You can rotate screens as well.

You can even create a portable version that runs off a flash drive without any need to install on pcs.

https://pdfsam.org/

You can scan each page to PDF individually, then combine them using a utility:

https://pdfsam.org/pdf-merge/

Here are some additional methods:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-combine-pdf-files/

PDFsam basic (Java included with version 4 and later, required for version 3 and earlier), PDFtk Free, or PDFtk Server (command-line tool, included with PDFtk or as a standalone tool) may help.

Inkscape is inherintely a single page program. It does not do multiple pages. This is mainly because SVG itself doesn't support multi-page.

The commercial program Illustrator isn't mulipage capable either, but has allows multiple artboards. The free layout program Scribus is multi-page. Commercial layout program InDesign is multi-page. CorelDraw is multi-page, doubling as vector and layout.

You could use a utility to join PDF files. Searching for PDF join you can find web based services also.

https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/

If you drag and drop a PDF onto Inkscape, then another it will add each to the document, but it will all be on one page

Ah. I was Bazooka, then rockets in general, and now missiles. Though anything "general Cold War US" also gets my attention.

I was going to visit the archives this month, but COVID postponed that.

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If you're wondering, I used ILovePDF to convert the images to PDF (12 at a time, the page is great but it does limit free users a bit), then used PDFSAM Basic to merge the resulting files.

How about this one? https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/

Hopefully you have Windows Defender or an Anti-virus as well. Not an endorsement that it's safe.

I have no idea if the software will upload files or not, so if you're super kiasu:

• install
• turn off Internet
• rotate
• uninstall
• turn on Internet

😂

You could use something like https://pdfsam.org. If I’m following you correctly. You could scan your answers then use that app to attach/merge your answers into the original pdf.

Best case is if you had an iPad. You could use notability to write directly on the original pdf.

Può aiutarti https://pdfsam.org/it/ che per unire e tagliare i pdf è uno spettacolo. Se quantomeno te li stanno mandando con dei nomi sensati li butti tutti nel programma e ne esce uno unico

No idea of Preview for the Mac, but the author(s) of PDFsam has PDFsamVisual - “visual PDF tool to compose, combine, delete pages, crop and much more”. Cost 29 Euros

https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-visual/

PDF Split and Merge Basic is free with no time limit, it only requires that you have Java installed.

Even though it's not maintained any more, I'd recommend the old 2.2.4 version because it has the "Visual document composer" and "Visual reorder" features which were removed in version 3 (at least for the "Basic" free version).

A suggestion that is not pertinent to the topic: when you are done with a batch of chapters can you also upload a merged pdf version?

This is a free, open source and easy to use program that does exactly that and more.

Don't know about fillable forms, as I've never needed that, but PDFsam is nice at merging, splitting, and other PDF manipulation. PDFtk is good too, but I don't have as much experience with it.

It won't solve your problem people, but I keep PDF Split and Merge installed for when I get multiple page PDFs. I've only ever used the free version and there are no ads or anything.

(The real answer is what thatotheritguy suggested)

https://pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-enhanced/

"For Linux and MacOS users we kept alive our old version PDFsam Enhanced v2.2.4e"

Unfortunately that means you're stuck with the basic edition if you want a newer version. That is missing: Review, Forms, Sign & Secure.

For Adobe, I've only used Adobe Reader (free) and it's a great interface, it's just very limited in what it does. All the real editing options are locked to the Acrobat, which I believe is pretty expensive.

Today I was pointed towards PDFSaM (PDF Split and Merge). I haven't looked at it too much, but it seems to be on par with PDFfill. It has a much larger interface that looks like it should show you a picture of what the PDF looks like, but it doesn't, it's weird.