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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.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Annotation tools
Yespatchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 20 Sep 2026
Audience
The maker describes revision and markup tools as suited to engineering drawing review workflows.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Compression
Compression offers Screen, Balanced, and Print presets, plus custom DPI and JPEG quality settings.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Export
The app saves through a native operating-system Save As dialog with suggested filenames and a fallback for browsers.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Images
Users can import PNG or JPEG images, resize and position them on a page, and bake them into the PDF on apply.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
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.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Maker
The site credits Gareth Finch and shows 2026; it does not state a headquarters or founding date.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Notable dependency
OCR requires Tesseract to be installed for automatic recognition on scanned pages.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
OCR
Image-only pages are recognised automatically when Tesseract is installed, and the capability list also describes on-demand OCR.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Privacy and access
The maker states that no account is required and describes the software as open source, with source available to read, audit, fork, or improve.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Product
PatchworkPDF is a free, open-source PDF editor for merging, reordering, annotating, rotating, compressing, and editing PDF text.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Revision workflows
The editor includes revision clouds, copy and paste, and undo, and the maker says it is built with engineering drawings in mind.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026
Supported platforms
Windows,macOS,Linuxpatchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 20 Sep 2026
Text editing
Users can move, retype, or delete existing page text and add text overlays with font, size, and colour controls.patchworkpdf.sourceforge.io · read 11 Oct 2026

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