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Fills the lack of an open-source PDF Editor with the capability to draw and add notes

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Fills the lack of an open-source PDF Editor with the capability to draw and add notes not only to the PDF pages but, in future, to a virtually unlimited space.

The executable can be downloaded here or directly from this Github Repository.

Features

Here a quick demonstration of only a few features:

A short demonstration

A more detailed (and constantly extended) list of features:

  • PDF Annotating/ Editing
    • Text Boxes (with and without pointers)
    • Highlighting
    • Freehand drawing (Mouse and Pen Support) with line smoothing
    • Different colors available for all marker tools
    • Forms (only lines by now)
    • Erasing
    • Insert Images
  • PDF Tools
    • Insert/ Delete Pages
    • Create PDFs
  • Additional Features
    • Active Pen Support
    • Automatic Form Detection From Freehand Annotations
    • Various Options For Annotation Tools
    • Dark/ Light Mode (optionally invert pdf colors)
    • Fast PDF Loading
    • Split View

See CHANGELOG.md for a complete list of latest features in the current release

Right now I'm focussing on the Pen Support. Features like Text Boxes are currently not maintained

Shortcuts

  • Ctrl-T: Add Text Box
  • Ctrl-D: Freehand Draw
  • Ctrl-M: Mark/ Highlight Mode
  • Ctrl-E: Eraser
  • Ctrl-S: Save
  • Ctrl-P: Open Preferences
  • Ctrl-Q: Quit application
  • Esc: Cancel
  • Ctrl-Return: Confirm

Main Requirements

Getting started

  1. Set up a python venv

Create a venv

py -m venv venv

Activate it

./venv/Scripts/activate
  1. Install the dependencies

Use pip to do so

pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Run

Open vscode and run one of the predefined launch tasks.

code .

Building

Uses fbs which relies on pyinstaller.