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What are people using as a free (edit: or lifetime license) PDF editor for business use / non-technical people? Whenever we try anything else we inevitably run
by bix6 1y ago
What are people using as a free (edit: or lifetime license) PDF editor for business use / non-technical people? Whenever we try anything else we inevitably run into something we need acrobat for.
- observationist 1y agoI have grok produce a precise transcription of the text, then have chatgpt produce an editable word document, including forms, following the text that grok picked up (it's a lot better at OCR, for some reason) And then if I need to produce another pdf, I export it from Word. PDFs are silly. It's tech superstition, kinda like the belief that faxes are secure.
- bix6 1y agoWe have to manipulate 100 page PDFs, that sounds like a nightmare. I also can’t run sensitive docs through LLMs. This stuff has to stay local.
- cyanydeez 1y agoAcrobat 9.0
- bix6 1y agoI can’t legally buy that anymore and I’d need to downgrade OS to use it anyways?
- cyanydeez 1y agoIt runs on windows 11 https://www.ebay.com/itm/144554666031?_skw=adobe+acrobat+9+pro&itmmeta=01K7S136S6DN6NPZS907VMD9F8&hash=item21a821282f%3Ag%3ASKoAAOSwc%7E9kLIMu&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eOBHWVm45rH2aCYh6C4RjfvikxuUPrkxXBUDII0PGgRZtR0YtAJM9FJQkXqPN8G22ZQz9vJdlvarOgdei%2Fy5dpHyNho3b60IzOqpuqyl2JsxLucfxbHeTet1nI%2Ftc%2B%2BOj3I580QXsdgYQTuwKLxW7toPq19KztQRj4KyBpX1Q0UA6BULX1jKofCzy7LOV8AVoaEksYv420CFrkAecLeNe1PZMuRgYalomK7ZIPb0utXZQ2QMMYPoxHqU5JyIkTo30%3D%7Ctkp%3ABlBMUNjsjKG-Zg&keyword=adobe+acrobat+9+pro&sacat=0&relatedSearch=true https://www.ebay.com/itm/144554666031?_skw=adobe+acrobat+9+p...
- prmoustache 1y agoNot sure why would anyone edit a pdf. To me this is a format you export to, not a draft/working doc format.
- AlotOfReading 1y agoAs much as I agree, I've lost track of how often someone's given me a PDF form to fill out. While driving down to the print store during business hours for a scanner is possible, it's a lot easier to make a sacrifice to the dark gods of format abuse instead.
- prmoustache 1y agoWell I don't really count "filling out a form" as editing as you don't really change the structure, just add stuff in the blanks and any reader such as the one on yoir browser can do it.
- ok123456 1y agoReorder pages. Redact. Need to make a minor change, and don't have the original. Digitally sign a document. Comment on a document. Join several documents together. There are a bunch of reasons.
- bix6 1y agoThank you. I am constantly mind blown by the lack of awareness around PDF use in business on this board (and O365) lol.
- prmoustache 1y agoMaybe people gere are more picky whom they are doing business with. I mean if I have to sign a contract I'd rather do it with someone who tend to know what they are doing on a general basis.
- bix6 1y ago