Just one caveat with many of the newer PDF tools coming out recently, including the Firefox browser one. If you need to do anything with a particular format like PDF/UA (tagged for accessibility) or PDF/A (archival), these newer tools do not always work great. Many devs don't know about and/or don't care about specialty PDF formats. Mozilla has been strongly criticized for how badly their new editor hands PDF/UA.
Kate Deibel
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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Mark Pernotto
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF editing options
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
>
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