Question:My current project need to add an order number to every page in the PDF. I tried some software but it does not support stamping with text. Is there any PDF annotation tool in Linux I can use to finish this task? Is there any solution on VeryPDF?
Answer: Now in the market, there are lots of software which can help you annotate PDF professionally under Window system but most of them can not be used under Linux system. The same as VeryPDF, now we do not have professional tool for annotating PDF both by image and text, either from GUI or command line. So based on those situation, VeryPDF developed many cloud based applications which can work under all the system like Window, Mac and Linux. One of cloud based applications named VeryPDF Annotator Cloud API (Online PDF Annotation Cloud API), which can help you annotate PDF under Linux system. It can help you add notes to PDF, Word or image files right from your web browser and share documents with others for collaborative annotation. Please check more information of this software on homepage, in the following part, let us check how to make it work.
Step 1. Open website of Free Online Document Annotator
- This could based application can help you annotate PDF directly online, you do not need to do anything. Simply open its website then you can begin to work.
- The following snapshot is from its website, please have a check. All the steps have been marked on it. Once you see it then you can master its usage.
- When you open it under Linux system, please upload PDF file you need to annotate no matter local or online.
- Input the API code if you have then click button Annotate Now, you can annotate PDF then.
Step 2. Annotate PDF under Linux system.
- When you click Annotate Now then you will see the following snapshot.
- Here you can annotate PDF according to your needs. Click button Comment then you can add three kinds of comments. The above in the snapshot is from point comment.
- Click button Draw then you can draw circles, lines around the text you need to annotate. Click button Text for adding text at any position you need to annotate PDF. Click button Strikeout then you can strikeout words on PDF.
- When you finish annotation, please click button Save to save it as local or another PDF file.
By this method, you can annotate PDF under Linux system. Now it is not perfect, but we will try hard to improve it. Your suggestion and ideas about it, we will cherish very much. During the using, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.