I will look into these, do you know if they support collaborative annotations?
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I can’t attest to any as I don’t use PDFs this way, but here are a few links:
All of these are self-hostable and FOSS. I’m not sure about NextCloud integration.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Stirling PDF
docs.stirlingpdf.com/…/Read-and-Annotate/
Read & Annotate is a full-featured PDF viewer that lets you:
- Read PDFs in a clean, focused interface
- Add annotations, comments, and notes
- Highlight and markup text
- Draw freehand on pages
- Add shapes, arrows, and callouts
- Insert text boxes and sticky notes
- Collaborate by marking up documents
- Save annotated PDFs for sharing
Think of it as your digital PDF notepad - read, review, and mark up documents all in one place.
It says it do. Other than that, I’ve never deployed it.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have an installation of Stirling PDF, but in my short experiment it had no ability to collaborate on the same document.
Every edit created a new copy of the document downloaded to the user. The annotations weren’t tagged to the individual user and sending different versions of a PDF from user to user is not what I am looking for.
Stirling is a single user software in that regards. I haven’t tested the also mentioned BentoPDF and PdfDing but I suspect them to be the same as they are all trying to be a PDF toolbox like Acrobat.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hmmmm…sorry to steer you wrongly. I mean, gosh it says it does all annotation and collaboration. I assumed ‘collaboration’ to mean multi-user collaboration. Hard to collaborate by yourself.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t use PDFs that much either, and often wonder who are these people who use so many PDFs, but I hear raves about Stirling PDF. I thought PDFs were like legacy gen.
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
What do youngstar use nowadays if it isn’t PDF? EPUB?
I always wondered, why someone would prefere to read an EPUP instead of a PDF ! Specially Student books, cook books or any other book with images or representations.
Yeah EPUB’s are good for long text stories without any image, but everything else should be in pdf.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only thing I use the PDF format for is ebooks. I just always thought PDFs were something you spammed geriatric people with to get them to fall prey to your scam. LOL Like CD/DVDs. Someone here was talking about CD/DVDs a while back, and I got to thinking, I haven’t burned a CD in at least a decade.
kumi@feddit.online 2 days ago
You don’t interact much with lawyers and government, I take it?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I try to keep lawyers, government, and other ne’er-do-wells off my farm, yes.