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What do you use to edit PDF on your phone?

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Dear Lemmings,

I deal with several PDF files on a daily basis. I’m still struggling to find a nice FOSS app to edit PDFs on my phone.

My common needs are :

  • OCR the content
  • merge pages
  • delete pages
  • reorder pages

A bonus would be:

  • edit content
  • fill form, print / send to email

Do you know one which is able to do this?

Many thanks

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SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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Speaking from experience, when it comes to file formats, PDFs are like an ancient eldritch horror monster. I’m not surprised this doesn’t exist, PDF are awful to work with.

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nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
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Thanks for your feedback, I do agree with you and I don’t do it for fun either. That said, I often get the need to do different tasks and I wanted to know if I could skip the need to use a computer for this.

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Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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I wouldn’t bother trying to edit PDF anything on a handheld. That’s a computer task.

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nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
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Thanks for your feedback, I do agree with you and I don’t do it for fun either. That said, I often get the need to do different tasks and I wanted to know if I could skip the need to use a computer for this.

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Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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What I’m saying is – the time spent editing on a phone will be far more than just sitting down and doing it with a nice app on a proper laptop. It’s not about the ease, it’s about the speed.

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suodrazah@lemmy.world
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Fire this up in Docker somewhere and use your phone browser. Could probably even use Termux on your Android, have never tested that.

https://stirlingtools.com/

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nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
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Thanks that’s a super great idea!

EDIT: Fired it up and it works brilliantly on a mobile, I’m impressed! I wish I had that idea before, thanks mate!

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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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What do you mean that docker can run in Termux. I had no idea…

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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Second this, brilliant suite. The solution was so obvious.

Tbh you could strip out all the used tools and add a mobile/desktop interface too. Kotlin for example.

Just someone has to do it.

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beerclue@lemmy.world
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Thank you for this. I do have a homelab with various tools, and I sometimes need to convert and adjust PDF files, and I was using all kinds of shady websites. Not anymore :)

Now, if it only had a translate option too…

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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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Can you elaborate on “fire this up in docker somewhere”?

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nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
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Have a look there and if you’re not familiar with Docker I’d suggest to start with this first.

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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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Thanks!

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ryannathans@aussie.zone
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Foss? Pdf? Good one

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nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
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Why not? There’re a bunch of them for desktop users. Besides, what alternative file format would you suggest?

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Audalin@lemmy.world
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I don’t usually edit PDFs on my phone. On the PC, I use pdftk+qpdf+img2pdf+ocrmypdf (all command-line apps). Some of those can be found in the default Termux repos once you install the terminal emulator; some, perhaps, could be compiled and used as well.

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