[ornornor]

A web app makes it cross platform. If you have a homelab, deploy it only once for every client.

And PDFtk doesn’t do annotations afaik which is a huge pain point on Linux (at least for me) because there are no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs. Masterpdf can do it but with a watermark and some limitations.

Maybe it doesn’t suit your particular use case but I wouldn’t say pdftk can replace this project.

[jraph]

Xournal++ was already mentionned, Okular also has annotations and I think adding hand drawn signatures.

Though I welcome (new) work in this area.

[throwaway2037]

Xournal++ is amazing for annotating PDFs. I use it to file taxes where fillable PDFs and e-filing don't work as expected.

[adrenvi]

Firefox now has some simple built-in PDF editing tools. Text and images can be added on top, but existing text can't be modified.

[plugin-baby]

> no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs

Try xournal++

[subtra3t]

I think edge would be perfect for you

[ornornor]

Edge the browser?

[subtra3t]

Yes, its pdf editor is very good.

[throwaway2037]

Woah. Very cool. Is this something specific to Microsoft Edge, or also available in other Chromium variants, including Chrome?