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What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?

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What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?

[x] Print booklet format (pdfbook, pdfbooklet, enbooken, acrobat reader)
[x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk, acrobat payware)
[x] Add signature (Adobe Reader Fill-and-sign sign-yourself tool)
[x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf, Acrobat payware,fastone scroll capture)
[x] Compress PDFs (ImageMagick, PDFgear, rlvision)
[x] Convert PDF to MSOffice (PDFgear, Calibre for MS Word only)
[x] Convert PDF to MSWord (Calibre, PDFgear)
[x] Convert PDF to epub format (Calibre)
[x] Convert PDF to PostScript (Calibre, Poppler)
[x] Converts PDFs to HTML (poppler)
[x] Convert PDF to raster (Imagemagick,GhostScript,Poppler-pdftocairo)
[x] Convert PDF to vector (Inkscape, Poppler-pdftocairo)
[x] Converts PDFs to PPM/PGM/PBM image formats (poppler)
[x] Add text to existing pdf (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)
[x] Minor text editing (Adobe Reader commenting, PDF-XChange Editor)
[x] Generate complex PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)
[x] Embeds files into a PDF as attachments (poppler) 
[x] Extract images (PDFExchangeEditor, PDF Shaper, PDFgear, poppler, muPDF)
[x] Extract text (poppler) or mine textual & metadata (pdfminersix)
[x] Extracts embedded files (attachments) from a PDF (poppler)
[x] Fastest PDF readers (Sumatra or Foxit)
[x] Globally search & replace PDF text (Libre Office)
[x] List fonts used in a PDF (poppler)
[x] Metadata display on command line (poppler)
[x] Metadata removal (LibreOffice Writer, PDFgear offline)
[x] OCR, PDF-Xchange, freeOCR (paperfile.net), GOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net)
[x] Offline encrypt PDF with a password (pdfencrypt)
[x] Online shrink PDF <adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html>
[x] PDF text to audio file (Balabolka)
[x] Delete pages (pdfsam, pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
[x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader)
[x] Reorder pages (pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
[x] Rotate pages (pdftk, mutool, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
[x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript,Ghostview,ps2edit,pdfwrite,pdf2djvu)
[x] Separates a PDF into individual pages (poppler)
[x] Split PDFs (PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript) 
[x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam, pdftk, PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript) 
[x] Tile PDFs (i.e., to print large posters) (Posterazor)
[x] Redact sensitive information (PDF-Xchange Editor, Adobe Acrobat Pro)
[x] Add watermarks or background layers (pdftk, PDFgear, PDFsam)
[x] Add bookmarks/TOC (jpdfbookmarks, LaTeX(hyperref), PDF-ExchangeEditor
[x] Flatten form fields (Ghostscript, Acrobat Pro)
[x] Embed audio/video into PDFs (Acrobat Pro, LaTeX (media9 package)
[x] Generate PDF from Markdown or HTML (Pandoc, wkhtmltopdf)
[x] Create fillable forms (LibreOffice Draw, Scribus, LaTeX (AcroTeX))
[x] Batch rename, convert, split, etc. (PDFsam, Poppler, Ghostscript)
[x] Extract annotations/comments (PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Acrobat)
[x] Convert to OCR (Tesseract OCR, PDF-Xchange, ABBYY FineReader)
[x] Add hyperlinks/clickable buttons (LibreOffice,LaTeX,PDF-XChange Editor)
[x] Compare two PDFs side-by-side (DiffPDF, Acrobat Pro)
[x] Digitally sign with certificate-based signature (Foxit PDF Editor)
[x] Free PDF samples 
    <https://examplefile.com/document/pdf>
    <https://onlinetestcase.com/pdf-file/>
    <https://sample-files.com/documents/pdf/>
    <https://graydart.com/sample/documents/pdf>
    <https://freetestdata.com/document-files/pdf/>
    <https://getsamplefiles.com/sample-document-files/pdf>
    <https://learningcontainer.com/sample-pdf-files-for-testing/>
[?] What other tasks do you do to edit or modify a PDF file?

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