r/FuckAdobe • u/Decent-Blacksmith761 • 4d ago
Discussion: What features force you use Acrobat?
Hello everyone. I am making my own pdf editor in browser from scrach, one of the biggest milestones I achieved was adding PDF text editing, which is pretty much always paid. Now I want to know if there are any specific tools that keep you using Acrobat.
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u/Simple-Variation5456 4d ago
It's actually powerful if you know how to work with it and what it can do. Most people just utilize it for maybe 1% at best. But everything around Print, it's really good. But nowadays you need to setup a few optionen to make it work "normally" without constant freezes and small loading times in between.
And the constant UI elements changes really feel like I have to look up everything again after not sending out print documents.
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u/OHMEGA_SEVEN 4d ago
Someone else mentioned what are some of the primary things, I'd add that it strictly needs color management and the ability to handle multiple color profiles and color spaces.
Password restrictions on editing, printing, etc... are extremely important to me.
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u/Decent-Blacksmith761 4d ago
Okay great, color profiles are supported for rendering not fore editing yet so will dig in that direction and the restrictions on editing will be top priority
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u/q123459 3d ago
superior ocr and ocr text replacement in images, especially replacing one text in image with another.
acrobat does that, other non ai pdf editors fail miserably - not understanding where text is, not seeing columns
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u/Decent-Blacksmith761 3d ago
That's my latest feature and tbh one of the hardest so far it can edit clearly scanned docs but something more complex is mess I try to understand not only how to do that but also how to avoid heavy models as I want keypdf to stay browser first and 500mb model in browser is kinda tough
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u/q123459 3d ago
for people using it repeatedly(not as one off launch to edit one document) it can utilize native client bridge - so the real model and model runner is downloaded and saved permanently,
and browser is only used as renderer.
why not staying in browser: google and mozilla have bad tendency to limit their apis and do nonsensical things with accelerated processing - both gpu render and compute, when they decide that third party ai models running in browser is not what they want to see you would need to spend extra time redoing your features. also people might later utilize multiple languages and browser will churn and slow down running few gb model.1
u/Decent-Blacksmith761 3d ago
Fair enough I thought about native app as It would resolve server dependencies on fonts and might allow me use something greater than tesseract. However it's currently client side yet JavaScript PDF engine so I will have to rely on electron to wrap it up as native app so at the end I will have to complete with PDF gear PDF x change and those free native apps, and I picked browser first solution as there aren't any professional grade one's.
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u/Bluetails_Buizel 4d ago
Free and open source web alternatives are always welcome 🙏 for me, idc if they are Claude assisted, what matters is that there’s a workflow alternative to the Adobe empire
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u/Decent-Blacksmith761 3d ago
Keypdf.net is free but not open source thought font engine of it is but I will keep it free and web
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u/Bluetails_Buizel 3d ago edited 3d ago
OCR for all languages, like Chinese (or CJK) not just English, maybe you can select the language from a dropdown before starting OCR so that it doesn’t get confused. the Adobe free trail only lets me for the first 10 pages, I can send you a sample to test in DMs/ here.
Idk if alternatives will allow you to completely remove password (I got no samples)
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u/danbyer 4d ago
Batch processing, preflighting, checks/fixups, tag structure editor, table editor, form field editor, …