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I would like to know if you provide the service to edit pdf in browser within my web application just like any pdf editor. By clicking save will save the changes done. Currently It can be in any platform either PHP, ROR or Python or javascript or juqery. Please advice?

What I have tried:

Just like online pdf editor or pdf desktop application by adobe.
I want to embed pdf editor tool in my web application
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Updated 15-Apr-16 5:28am
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Richard MacCutchan 15-Apr-16 3:10am    
So go ahead and embed it. What is the problem?
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Apr-16 11:12am    
PDF is not designed to be edited. PDF tools called "editors" are not really editors, even if some allow to modify PDF. It just makes little to no sense. Or do you mean PDF with interactive elements? This is a different story.
—SA

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Your question assumes that you have some PDF editor, only have problem embedding it, but you did not show anything like that. Please see my comment to the question. Even though, formally, PDF can be edited, as any other file, but in practice it is nearly complete nonsense. However, I faced clients who needed that, mostly the losers who failed to organize business with partners to receive real data, so they receive PDF, which is almost the same as receiving documents on paper. In normal business, PDF can be only the final point of workflow: you present data in PDF and just look at it, not trying to read the file for anything except rendering it.

There are also PDF with interactive elements used to fill in data, but this is a different story.

So, the idea is: create an HTML editor (there are many) and, on the server side, take HTML created by the user

With PHP, this is what you can use to represent data in the form of PDF: FPDF[^].

I don't know why doing so, but generation of PDF by Web application is widely used, more or less. You can do it, too.

—SA
 
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