[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116225] New: Create an Acrobat Professional equivilent to complete the open productivity suite

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116225

            Bug ID: 116225
           Summary: Create an Acrobat Professional equivilent to complete
                    the open productivity suite
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: zakhar.nasimov at gmail.com

Description:
Currently PDF handling, management, manipulation and advanced functionality
such as OCRing and creating forms are non existent in one single open source
package. It would benefit a great deal of people to have an equivalent of
Adobes' Acrobat Professional. A slight overview of what it can do are OCR in
place, reordering pages on the fly via drag and drop, merging PDFs, writing
PDFs, saving outputs from any desired pages found in a PDF and several others.
An exhaustive list of its functionality would prove unhelpful because it deals
with proprietary services and features which exist only with Adobe software.
Aforementioned abilities are most relevant. There is good news for this project
because it does not need to be written from scratch, there exist powerful and
very capable open source solutions to bits and peices of aformentioned
functionality specifically they are:
-Tesseract OCR engine, will gain openCL support soon
-pdftk - powerful pdf manipulation
-imagemagic,gimp,gegl PDF capable image manipulation

there several more but those are the ones I know of and they constitute a great
deal of what is required for this project to be a success. Such an open source
software will cause great attention from all over the computing landscape,
libreoffice will be taken more seriously by academia and industry alike and it
will gain more users because of it.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Choose to do something useful with a PDF document
2.Realize all methods are either command line or don't fulfill what you desire
3.Post bug to hugely successful libreoffice creativity suite to make a solution

Actual Results:  
Lets hope it works

Expected Results:
Please give it serious consideration.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Many well made tools are well are already available to do bits and pieces of
the big picture


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