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 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Mark Pernotto Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 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 <william.d.mar...@und.edu> 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 >
