word-sys’s PDF Editor – edit PDF text, images and objects

word-sys’s PDF Editor is a graphical application for creating and editing PDF documents. It provides tools for modifying existing text, inserting images, rearranging pages and adding annotations without requiring a separate commercial PDF editor.

The application was developed with the Linux desktop in mind, particularly Pardus, Debian and related distributions. It uses GTK and libadwaita to provide an interface for editing documents directly on a graphical canvas.

Unlike PDF utilities that concentrate on splitting or combining documents, word-sys’s PDF Editor supports modifying text and other objects within individual pages. It also includes tools for exporting documents to editable office formats. The built-in conversion engine supports both layout-preserving output and reconstruction of document content into a more conventional text flow.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Create PDF documents with customisable page dimensions and measurement units.
• Open and view existing PDF documents in a graphical interface.
• Select, edit and delete existing text blocks.
• Insert new text and adjust font family, size, colour and decoration.
• Move and reposition objects within PDF pages.
• Add images while preserving alpha transparency.
• Insert rectangles, ellipses, checkmarks, crosses and other shapes.
• Freehand drawing and highlighting with smoothed vector strokes.
• Select individual words for precise text highlighting.
• Add and remove pages from documents.
• Rearrange pages using drag-and-drop thumbnails.
• Merge multiple PDF files into a single document.
• Multi-level undo and redo for editing operations.
• Pointer-centred zooming for examining detailed page content.
• Export documents to DOCX, PPTX, ODT, ODP and plain text using the anyconvert engine.
• Choose between canvas-based export that preserves visual positioning and semantic export that reconstructs flowing content.
• Safe Save and Restricted Mode facilities for controlling document changes.
• Tabbed document interface and integrated keyboard shortcut reference.

Website: github.com/word-sys/word-sys-pdf-editor
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Developer: Barın Güzeldemirci
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

word-sys’s PDF Editor is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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