[OPLINTECH] *External* Replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro

[Chad Neeper]

I'm not personally familiar with BentoPDF. But if suitable, I wonder if
OPLIN would be willing to host BentoPDF (or similar) centrally for
everyone. Staff doing "free PDF editor" web searches  for their occasional
editing needs and randomly hitting unscrupulous "free" PDF tools/websites
seems to be a recurring issue for several of the small libraries I work
with. Trying to educate certain staff (Directors included) is like playing
whack-a-mole. With a toothpick.

2 cents,
Chad
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM Karl Jendretzky via OPLINTECH <
oplintech at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

> Morning Jim,
>
> We've been testing out...
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> BentoPDF - Free Online PDF Tools | Privacy-First PDF Toolkit
> <https://www.bentopdf.com/>
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> You can self-host it in a docker container. No ads, good basic features,
> does most of what most people need to do with pdfs. Seems like something we
> could make available to both staff and patrons. The editing is handled
> in-browser, so the documents never leave the workstation.
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> *Karl Jendretzky* | IT Manager of Infrastructure Services
> *Columbus Metropolitan Library* │ Main Library
> 96 S. Grant Ave. | Columbus, OH  43215
> 614.479.3039 office
> kjendretzky at columbuslibrary.org | columbuslibrary.org
> <https://www.columbuslibrary.org/>
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> We’re currently using Adobe Acrobat Pro to edit pdf files and a few of our
> staff accounts and on two of our public computers.  Adobe is “retiring”
> this product come December.  Can someone give me a suggestion on an
> alternative app that we can use to edit pdf files?  Our current software
> are perpetual licenses, so they are licenses per device instead of per
> user.  We can work with licensing per user for our staff but I’m trying to
> find a way that this will work on public computers.
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> *Jim Lack*
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> *Network Manager*
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> Rocky River Public Library
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