Looking for a utility/suite for working with PDF files and documents

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  • pdfjam

    The pdfjam package for manipulating PDF files

  • There is pdjam which might be a part of what you are looking for.

  • tesseract-ocr

    Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

  • For OCR there is tesseract.

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  • xournalpp

    Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  • xournalpp would be my first suggestion; this is what I typically use when I want to add a facsimile of my physical signature.

  • mupdf

    mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git (by ccxvii)

  • For a lightweight epub viewer, I'd probably go with mupdf or zathura. (Till recently I'd have said llpp which is based on the same codebase, but I think the developer has removed the sources for reasons having to do with the war in Ukraine.) However, I think these are based on the same library as Sumatra for Windows, so you may have the same problem.

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