Is there any software I can use on Mate to fill in detail on a pdf form?
Ray Pitts
pdfedit was a program that used to be available in the repos. But, that seems to have been pulled for some reason.
However, I have had a hunt around and there is another editor available. Still not in the repos. But is available as a downloadable Deb from their website
The Website is:
https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/
The download link is:
http://get.code-industry.net/public/master-pdf-editor-4.0.10_qt5.amd64.deb
I’ve just installed it and it works on UM 16.04 64 bit
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Hallo
I’ve used master PDF Editor in years gone by. Having just read about it in Linux Welt 2014-6 pages 106-107 I remembered it and loaded the 64 bit deb package. As it didn’t come from the repositories or a ppa I scanned the deb package with ESET antivirus for Linux. ESET didn’t detect any problems.
It works. 
OCR on PDF files (images) scanned with simple scan works! In English and French. 
As I understand it, this is “freeware” i.e. propriatary software made available for use free of charge (for non-professional use).
Thank you to the folks at code-industry for making this available (.deb / .rpm / tar.gz). 
UM 16.04.1 64 bit
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Just downloaded and installed. Really nice. Thanks Alpine John
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