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

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t bother trying to edit PDF anything on a handheld. That’s a computer task.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      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!

  • Audalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.