Compare PDFs on Linux For Free

previously complained that the default tools to interact with PDFs are very lacklust to their own Linux they generally can't edit a document to remove pages merge PDFs together or even sign a PDF so today we'll be looking at tools you can that solve all these problems and more just like today's sponsor can solve your remote desktop problems this video is sponsored by Chasm and more specifically they are open source VNC server called Chasm VNC this thing is a game changer if you want to connect remotely to a desktop to a server or to an application it uses less bandwidth it has higher frame rates and better quality than traditional VNC tools thanks to a better compression algorithm it lets you copy and paste seamlessly between devices it has improved security over the base VNC protocol and it's very configurable and best of all you don't need any client software you can use it straight from your web browser from anywhere it has packages for a wide variety of distros it works on arm and it supports GPU acceleration as well if you need to connect remotely to one of your computers give Chasm VNC a try I don't think you can get a smoother experience the links are in the description below so on every distro by default you generally just get a PDF viewer and that's it on gnome it's the most basic of tools all it does is show you the document printed fill forms and add bookmarks that's it no signature no changing the page order no removing Pages or adding new ones nothing and sure the PDF format was never meant to be edited but sometimes you still have to do it on KDE ocular does a lot more but it's still not a complete PDF tool it lets you fill in forms add annotations and even digitally sign a PDF if you're knowledgeable enough to other signing certificate yourself but there's no modifying page order editing the document removing Pages or more so these tools are pretty limited if you're used to the built-in PDF tool of Mac OS you're probably wondering what the hell these programs are doing and so we're going to look at ways to handle everything you might need for PDF documents and so let's begin with something the PDF file format was never designed to handle editing and one tool that is probably already on your Linux desktop that can do this is Library office draw it can open PDF documents and edit them as long as it's not an image if the text is correctly identified as text then you'll be able to modify it you can move lines or Graphics around change the background of a document and generally just modify it to your liking it does have issues though first text will often be split into lines which means you're not editing a paragraph you're editing each line of text individually which isn't optimal it will also often mess up the layout of the PDF if it's a complex one so it's definitely not the best tool if you have major complex edits to do on a complex PDF document if you're familiar with Vector drawing programs then inkscape can also edit PDF...