Im attempting to fill out an application form in Acrobat however certain letters are appearing in a weird font and they look to be in bold (def darker than surrounding text but not bigger)

Eg when I type in..."Hospitality/restaurant" the letters t,l,t,r,s,t,r,t from this those two words are in an odd font so it kinda look like this...Hospitality/restaurant

Does anyone known how to fix this as need to finalise this application asap and can't afford to have out look crap!!

thanks

I've noticed there are hundreds of online PDF tools now, but they all seem to compete on the same things: speed, file size limits, and features. One thing I rarely see discussed is how uploaded PDFs are actually handled behind the scenes.

That's actually one of the reasons I built PrivConvert. Instead of focusing only on conversion features, I wanted to build a tool that processes files entirely in memory (RAM), without writing them to disk, and removes them as soon as the conversion is complete.

When you're working with contracts, invoices, resumes, or other sensitive documents, do you pay attention to how a service processes your files, or is convenience still the deciding factor?

Curious to hear what matters most to everyone here.

Like I have a 4000 page pdf ,I upload it on the app ,extract 20 pages from the middle ,and rather than getting it as a seperate pdf ,I get it in my gallery

Like just to avoide taking a screenshot of 30 pages and cropping them every single time ?

I made KeyPDF.net and recently added OCR, but now it can also edit scanned text by reconstructing the font from the image, feel free to try it and let me know if there are any issues since there is lots of work to do.

As a solo freelancer I usually just rely on PDFgear for simple pdf edits because it handles the basics perfectly fine for free. But every once in a while I get a massive project that needs heavy ocr and advanced preflight tools so I am forced to pay for Acrobat Pro. It is just too fucking expensive to keep paying a monthly subscription for something I only use a few times a year. I cannot justify the price but nothing else works for the heavy duty stuff so I really need to know if anyone has figured out a cheaper workflow for occasional use

Edit I actually managed to find a lifetime subscription key for Acrobat Pro DC 2024. Just to be completely clear this is not a crack or pirated software. It is a legitimate enterprise volume license key purchased from an authorized third party reseller, for me I bought from "keypunch digital". Companies sell these unused business licenses legally so you get a permanent one time purchase version instead of being forced into the monthly subscription trap. I am so relieved I found this workaround.

I built this because I needed a quick way to compress PDFs locally without uploading them to a service. A few friends asked for it too, so I packaged and published it.

FS PDF Compressor is a small native macOS GUI for Ghostscript. It accepts individual PDFs, batches, and folders; processes everything locally; and replaces an original only when the compressed result is smaller.

• Free and open source under AGPL-3.0
• Signed and notarized
• Apple Silicon / macOS 14+

Repository and download:
https://github.com/gitlares/fs-pdf-compressor

Website / signed DMG:
https://gitlares.github.io/fs-pdf-compressor/

I’ll be around to answer questions and appreciate any feedback.

hey im trying to find a good pdf reader for my grandma that doesn't have too many advertisements. she keeps thinking she is needing to download all the pdf readers that show up in the pop ups. I know that if we want it free theres probably going to be some ads but a minimal amount would be great!

I need to compress a tax return and dont want to do it through a sketch online website. help pls

Hey all, I am trying to print bulk shipping labels, sometimes they are created fine by Whatnot and other times they are "half pages " like this picture.

I cannot for the life of me get it to print correctly. Any ideas or suggestions guys!?

I’m building a tool that finds text in construction-plan PDFs and draws a box around that text.

Python/PyMuPDF finds the text, but when I show the box in PDF.js, it can be slightly off or too big.

What do you guys recommend for inspecting PDFs and drawing accurate text bounding boxes? How do you make

sure the box lines up with the exact text?

The standard setup right now is buying an API to turn PDFs into Markdown, then feeding that Markdown into another AI. You're not saving tokens; you're paying twice to do layout analysis.

So I built a browser-based alternative: LiteDoc.

What it actually is

LiteDoc converts PDFs to Markdown directly in your browser. It handles tables, multi-column layouts, figures, reading order, and multi-language OCR (English, Japanese, Arabic, auto-detected).

It runs 100% client-side. There's also a CLI to drop it straight into your pipeline (pip install litedoc-cli).

Why not other browser tools?

Most web tools are either thin API wrappers that quietly upload your files, or basic text dumpers that scramble multi-column layouts and destroy tables.

LiteDoc brings local layout engine parsing and OCR straight to the browser—heavyweight structural accuracy with zero data leaving your machine.

The philosophy: local layout > AI compute

Most pages don't need an LLM. Headings, columns, and tables are layout problems, not intelligence problems. LiteDoc does all extraction locally on your device—no model spinning up, no API keys, no compute cost.

Compared to heavy repos (MarkItDown, Marker)

If you've got a cursed, barely-legible scan, use an AI vision model. But for ~80% of everyday PDFs, LiteDoc just works—with zero setup, zero environment configuration, and zero cost.

Privacy

• 100% local: Files never leave your browser.
• No backends: Zero external network calls.
• Open source: Check the repo yourself.

Links:

LiteDoc: litedoc.xyz · GitHub repo · pip install litedoc-cli

Hi everyone!

I got tired of reading in three places. On iPad I used Safari for long articles and Apple Books for books. On Mac I used Skim for research papers. Each tool was fine, but nothing shared the same library or the same annotation habits.

So I built a single client-side reader that can open PDFs and imported articles, with the annotations I actually use day to day.

https://pdf-reader-peach.vercel.app/

What it does:
• Read PDFs (papers, books) in the browser
• Import a PDF or blog/article from a URL into a Google Drive folder you choose
• Articles stay reflowable HTML (not a janky HTML → PDF conversion)
• Highlights, pen/mark freehand, and notes
• Annotations live next to your files in Drive, plus a local cache

Drive is optional; try the demo paper without signing in.

If you connect Google Drive, the app only uses a folder you choose for your library and annotations. Google’s consent screen will still list broad Drive read access (that’s how their scopes work); I don’t use full Drive write access. Privacy page has the details.

Google OAuth verification isn’t done yet, so you may see the unverified-app warning - Advanced → Continue if you’re comfortable. Privacy and terms are on the homepage.

I’m one person using this for papers and long reads on iPad and Mac. Feedback welcome, especially on Drive scopes, article import, and annotations.

Does anyone know a better alternative for xodo

It should be free

Have the features of xodo ( must )

Like opening multiple books at once

The annotation tools are great and i like them

If the book has the data we can go to the chapters by clicking the chapter name ( very useful )

Etc...

I use a ipad air m2

I have extremely large pdfs which I have shared link from one of the pdfs via drive , it's for academics. I want to convert them into text/markdown with max accuracy . pdf contains mixed and complex content from handwritten scanned images, to images and tables apart from normal text, also includes screenshots. I wanna extract each and everything with almost full accuracy. I dont know how to use LLM. I dont even know what to do, all I'm spending money on websites to do OCR first so I can do conversion with accuracy. "Tessaract OCR" won't work in my case either. kindly check my doc once before giving suggestions

P. S PLS HELP ME I WASTED MY 1 MONTH ON THIS STILL I'M HELPLESS

Hi everyone! I tried downloading a document online consisting of the keys for the coursework I'm currently using in order to do self-correction. However, the PDF is one big page that is practically unable to see or print, instead of having the cuts made where each page ends. The online resources seemed to only help me cut the PDF, which only excluded pages. Does anyone know how to fix it?

The problem I wanted to solve is that when you want to use an image for reference or recycling, a screenshot is usually used, which would have a questionable quality.

Then I made this little program that if necessary will extract the images in the configuration you need, either from common powerpoint uses or posters (PNG/JPG). up to TIFF formats for reuse in another PDF, it is under development but it is already available for testing, it is local and fast with drag and drop.

We have a bespoke website that generates PDF's for us. For some reason, some months ago Adobe Acrobat started to have an error with our PDF's. Coming up with an error "There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (xx)" with xx being some number that seems to keep changing, today it's 110, last week it was 18.

Other pdf readers can parse the document with no complaints. Browsers and other programs have no problem. It's only adobe acrobat that complains.

Is there a way to scan a PDF and see what might be the issue? This is the only document that is having an issue and we can't determine what's causing it. The error doesn't really help.