PatchworkPDF vs PDFgear
PatchworkPDF
patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io
PDFgear
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| Figure | PatchworkPDF | PDFgear |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · PDF editors | 7.9 (#51) | 9.0 (#11) |
| Annotations | Sticky notes, highlights, and shapes are saved as native PDF annotations that the site says remain interactive in Acrobat, Foxit, and other modern readers. | Markup tools support highlights, underlining, strike-through, notes, comments, stamps, shapes and text boxes. |
| Annotation tools | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The site names Tesseract OCR as an optional dependency and says native annotations are interactive in Acrobat and Foxit; it does not list other integrations. | An App Store reviewer reports cloud integration for accessing documents and collaborating across locations. |
| OCR | Image-only pages are recognised automatically when Tesseract is installed, and the capability list also describes on-demand OCR. | Its OCR recognizes scanned documents and supports more than 30 languages. |
| Supported platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux | web,Windows,macOS,iOS,Android |
| Text editing | Users can move, retype, or delete existing page text and add text overlays with font, size, and colour controls. | Yes |
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