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What about a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro on (Windows)? That is the one app that keeps me having a Creative Cloud subscription. In a business setting I fi
by porker 6y ago
What about a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro on (Windows)?
That is the one app that keeps me having a Creative Cloud subscription. In a business setting I find it essential.
- laurentb 6y agohave you looked at foxitPDF ? this is a comparison table from Foxit's site against Acrobat Pro: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-editor/adobe-acrobat-alternative.html https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-editor/adobe-acrobat-alter... (not associated with Foxit in any way shape or form nor a user)
- porker 6y agoThanks, first time I'd heard of it. Looks a good match.
- laurentb 6y agoanother one to look at is Nitro as well (just looked for an alternative based on Silhouette's comment below). here's a link to G2 for comparisons: https://www.g2.com/products/foxit-phantompdf/competitors/alternatives https://www.g2.com/products/foxit-phantompdf/competitors/alt...
- Silhouette 6y agoBe careful with Foxit software, though. They have a history of doing some very unsavoury things. Their Wikipedia page has some details for those interested.
- 0xffff2 6y agoDo you have a specific link? Their Wikipedia page is pretty short and I don't see anything notable in there.
- Silhouette 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxit_Reader#Issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxit_Reader#Issues
- 0xffff2 6y agoAh, my bad. I was reading the page for the company not the product.
- Technetium 6y agoI recently switched from Foxit to PDF-XChange and I'm enjoying it so far https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
- diarrhea 6y agoThat, and Adobe Lightroom. I tried to switch and had a mixture of Darktable, RawTherapee, RapidPhotoDownloader and digiKam running. It was unpleasant and years behind Lightroom, unfortunately. Even more unfortunate is that I have a stand-alone license for Lightroom 5, but my camera is too new for it (no support for its RAWs).
- porker 6y agoThanks for the feedback, I hadn't thought about replacing Lightroom yet. I do like Lightroom, but the catalogue speed with 100k+ photos is glacial on my PC. I tried importing 30 years of photos rather than having multiple catalogues, as tagging consistently across all would be useful ("Hey auntie Sally, look at the photos of you aging!").
- petepete 6y agoI use Capture One in Lightroom's place and it really is an excellent tool, its raw processing capabilities are fantastic and the features mean I barely (if ever) have to reach for a more-powerful editor like Affinity.
- prox 6y agoDarktable has had a major upgrade recently , and at least on Windows, it’s pretty much on par and its GUI has had a major boost in responsiveness.
- prox 6y agoWhat are your must-have features?
- porker 6y agoGreat question :) 1. Impeccable Word to PDF conversion 2. Combining, rearranging pages and documents 3. Editing: add/edit/delete text, images from PDFs 4. Form creation (not something we use now, but plan to) 5. Protect PDFs (as much as you can) That is the majority of what I can remember using in the last 12 months. I have occasionally used: 6. Compare files 7. Redact - though usually I edit the PDF and delete the text directly 8. OCR 9. Comment. But I HATE the PDF commenting experience, as does everyone in the team when we try and pass comments around.
- tn1 6y agoBased on your feature request list, all but the form creation (iirc) is handled well by PDF-XChange by Tracker Software. It's a one time purchase + optional maintenance upgrade model.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoThe OCR is what keeps me in Acrobat camp, too. And very sadly since this company is outright customer-hostile and the software is absurdly expensive. I've been trying tesseract but find it lacking -- need a better shape/text/picture region recognition (people are working on it these days), and something which puts it back in tagged PDF form. I also want to try whatever Nuance/OmniSoft is selling these days since I used to be a OmniPage customer before.
- AlanYx 6y agoI'm in the same boat. I keep a virtual machine with an up-to-date Acrobat Pro license just for the OCR. It's not that the OCR is state-of-the-art any more. It's not as accurate as ABBYY in my experience. But it still generates the most predictable, consistent bounding boxes for text selection out of the alternatives that I've tried.
- ivanhoe 6y agoNot sure how ABBYY FineReader is priced these days, but it was always giving me excellent results.
- kabcl 6y agoI've been using pdfstudio from Qoppa[1] for a while. It's been a good replacement for AcrobatPro for me. 1. https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/
- mahoho 6y agoI'm not sure whether it meets your needs, but in architecture and MEP engineering we use Bluebeam Revu almost exclusively. Personally I find its UI very frustrating, though.