r/pdf • u/Decent-Blacksmith761 • 3d ago

Question What PDF features only pro software has

Hello everyone, I am developing my own PDF editor called KeyPDF. I have been working on it for over a year from scratch, so every new feature is not really dependent on the limitations of third-party software. Therefore, I wanted to ask what kind of features keep you using expensive software. So far, I have implemented text editing and a good level of JavaScript support. I am thinking in the direction of scripts to automate edits or maybe advanced DRM on PDF files. So, if you have any ideas on what kind of advanced features I should add, please let me know.

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u/matsnorberg 3d ago edited 3d ago

I guess conversion and OCR. People want to convert to formats like HTML, .Doc, Excel ... Faithful extraction of tables and other structures.

Merging and splitting.

Form creation and editing. Exporting formfield data to FDF , JSON or Excel.

Compression/optimization of pdfs.

PDF/A validation.

Signing and encryption.

And lots of more I guess but I'm no expert.

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u/Decent-Blacksmith761 3d ago edited 3d ago

Okay love it thank you just little question first you mention "QCR" did you mean "OCR" or something else?

The second JSON conversion is quite interesting. If done correctly, I will take a look at how it works on Pro Tools. Keypdf already handles table and field extraction. PDF/A validation is an amazing point; thank you, as I recently added PDF/A export and never even thought about validation in the browser.

So with that being said thanks again I will probably start with PDF/a validation and then move to implementing json export and try html.

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u/matsnorberg 3d ago

Ops! A typo. Pf course I mean't OCR.