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printz said:
What about Adobe Acrobat Professional, isn't it the original product to work on PDFs?
They too have an assortment of tools that uses PDF mainly as an export format, and have limited editing ability of particular types PDF files e.g. forms that were created by themselves. But there's no Wunderwaffe-like do-it-all PDF editor that take any arbitrary PDF file and make it fully editable in every last bit of detail. Not that it stops people from trying, but by-and-large, PDF is an export-only format. If you manage to squeeze out any sort of repeatable editability out of a PDF file, consider yourself lucky.
printz said:
What about OCR? Though I find it more useful not to convert to DOCX, but to just convert a pure image PDF to a searchable one. All of them seem to be expensive…
OCR does exactly what you said, pretty well in some cases, but I don't see what it has to do with making a PDF file fully editable, including pixel- (or dot-) precise tables, forms, images and absolute page positioning. Again, tools that try to do that have always existed, but the "reverse" process is never perfect, far from it. And yeah, most tools that can do any of that to a meaningful degree are usually expensive, commercial packages.
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