Hello Martin,

You may be happy to hear that Mozilla's Firefox web browser's newer update
allows for simple PDF edits:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1356707/firefox-106-adds-a-nifty-pdf-editing-feature.html
You'd also be able to add pages to existing PDF files using Dochub:
https://www.dochub.com/en/functionalities/add-pages-into-a-pdf-in-mozilla-firefox
You may be able to identify an OCR solution from choosing from Firefox's
OCR extensions: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=OCR

Please let me know if I've misunderstood your question.

Thanks,
Mark A. Pernotto



On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 9:33 AM Martin, Will <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> All,
>
> Our IT department has informed us that they will only support/install the
> most recent version of Acrobat Pro.  Since we do not have admin rights on
> our machines, we cannot continue to move older licensed copies of Acrobat
> Pro to new computers as the staff get them.  And it looks as though Adobe
> plans to terminate their "perpetual" (ha!) licensing scheme for Acrobat Pro
> in 2025.  End result: in the not-too-distant future we'll be forced to pay
> annual subscription fees for Acrobat Pro, to the tune of $110/person/year.
>
> That adds up pretty quick, so I'm looking into alternatives.  A handful of
> staff use the more advanced features of Acrobat Pro, but the vast majority
> of them are doing very basic things: adding a bit of text here or there,
> running OCR on a scanned article, inserting a copyright notice page at the
> front, that sort of thing.
>
> What software are you all using at your libraries for these sort of tasks?
>
> Will Martin
>
> Head of Digital Initiatives, Systems and Services
> Chester Fritz Library
> University of North Dakota
> he/his/him
>
> 701.777.4638
>