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PDF Editing Project

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:46 pm
by JakeJ
This isn't really about coding at all, so I've got it in the General Discussion category.

My girlfriend is going to work on a translation project and there are thousands of pages. We've determined that the most efficient way to do this is to scan everything in as a pdf (it's invoices mostly and other related items all copied from original hard copy). We do NOT need OCR, we just want to put a text box on top of the original text.

What would be the best (preferably free) software to do that? I don't want to use just comments and I don't need to actually edit the text directly, I only need to cover over the top of it.

These will be very large pdf files so photshop or gimp won't work since they won't be single page files.

Let me know!

Thanks!

Re: PDF Editing Project

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:38 am
by Benjamin
In this case you would want to add the overlay to the image after it was scanned and before it was saved in the PDF format, otherwise you will need to roll your own PDF modification program.