Submitted 1 day ago by EarMaster@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I am looking for a solution to collaborative PDF editing (mostly annotations). I already have a Nextcloud installation with Office for several members so it would be great if it could be integrated, but it is not necessary.
What I mainly want is the possibility to add and view annotations made by several users on the same file at the same time.
Do you have a suggestion?
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.
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.
You don’t interact much with lawyers and government, I take it?
I will look into these, do you know if they support collaborative annotations?
Stirling PDF
docs.stirlingpdf.com/…/Read-and-Annotate/
Read & Annotate is a full-featured PDF viewer that lets you:
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.
I think OnlyOffice supports that. There is an extension for that for Nextcloud.
I have installed OnlyOffice and it seems to work. I need to test it with a few others over a real connection (not just locally), but it seems promising.
I tried that. It opens PDFs in Impress (their PowerPoint) and provides only a very basic annotation interface.
OnlyOffice doesn’t have “Impress”. I think you are confusing that with LibreOffice or Collabora Office.
I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice
will you want version control ?
Not necessary, no.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
My team does this, but we collaborate in Markdown, and then one of us converts it into a PDF when we finish.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That’s not an option unfortunately. The actual use case is a non-profit sports club magazine which needs to be proof read by several people at the same time. There is a fixed release date and only a few days to proof read the PDF before it needs to be sent to print.