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Edit PDF in sharepoint online

Dear community, I am trying to edit pdfs stored in a document library on sharepoint with no success. Is this possible at all to do? Regards!

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SteveMartin

Brass Contributor

Jun 13, 2019

Hey Everyone - just letting you know Adobe now has a version of Acrobat that connects to your SharePoint Online/Azure subscription as an Enterprise App. You'll need your O365 Admin to install it but once installed it allows Annotation of PDFs inside the browser for PDFs stored on your SharePoint Online site.

Find more info here:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/o365pdf/start.html

Opening PDFs seems to go through the documentcloud.adobe.com and is a little slower than browser supported viewing of PDFs but the annotation in browser editing is worth it IMHO.

Richard Bourke

Iron Contributor

Jun 13, 2019

We looked at this recently, if memory serves, you have to configure any SharePoint library/folder location that you want to work in first in Adobe. A common scenario for us is users sharing PDFs for review with others via OneDrive. Adobe DocumentCloud was a non runner as it still makes the process for the user cumbersome.

If you discover different, please let me know.

SteveMartin
Brass Contributor
Jun 13, 2019
Richard Bourke The Adobe Acrobat Cloud is setup as an Enterprise App authorized to your O365/Azure subscription and then you don't need to authorize it for each folder.
Once the user is allowed access to the Enterprise App they use it anywhere SharePoint or OneDrive
- Richard Bourke
  Iron Contributor
  Jun 13, 2019
  SteveMartin, don't you need to configure each site URL via Add an account?
  I recall it working great for a user in their own OneDrive or team site (which was added as an account for that user) but not so great an experience when random users share a PDF to others for feedback/review from their own OneDrive. I may have to revisit it if that's not the case.
  - SteveMartin
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 13, 2019
    Richard Bourke Once installed as an Enterprise App (follow the process on Adobe linked above) you then just need to authorize users on that Enterprise App in your Azure Portal. Authorize everyone using an NT Group.
pnthrzrule
Iron Contributor
Jun 13, 2019
Richard Bourke

There is still the ability to open the library in explorer view (using IE). This allows you to edit the pdf in place and it saves the changes to the online file with no need to download/re-upload. Yeah, it's not lightning fast...but it does work.