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Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of a FOSS editing app to use on PDFs, just to add text and and mark things out, I tried GNU image editor but it just works on images exclusively. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

If you're trying to redact documents, convert it to a jpg and use a black cover (not blur) then wipe the metadata. Dont use a pdf at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How could I convert the pictures back to a PDF when I'm done?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I dont think you should, but if you must use img2pdf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not OP, but I'm guessing PDFs add more metadata that is harder to remove. Just a guess

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