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A web app makes it cross platform. If you have a homelab, deploy it only once for every client.

And PDFtk doesn’t do annotations afaik which is a huge pain point on Linux (at least for me) because there are no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs. Masterpdf can do it but with a watermark and some limitations.

Maybe it doesn’t suit your particular use case but I wouldn’t say pdftk can replace this project.



Xournal++ was already mentionned, Okular also has annotations and I think adding hand drawn signatures.

Though I welcome (new) work in this area.


Xournal++ is amazing for annotating PDFs. I use it to file taxes where fillable PDFs and e-filing don't work as expected.


Firefox now has some simple built-in PDF editing tools. Text and images can be added on top, but existing text can't be modified.


> no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs

Try xournal++


I think edge would be perfect for you


Edge the browser?


Yes, its pdf editor is very good.


Woah. Very cool. Is this something specific to Microsoft Edge, or also available in other Chromium variants, including Chrome?




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