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With PDFelement, you can edit, convert, protect, sign, annotate, and organize PDFs. You can also create forms from scratch with pre-made templates, or extract data from a PDF file. Beyond these fairly standard features, PDFelement's innovative technology allows you a greater degree of customization. What's more, it's perhaps the only PDF editor to offer a perpetual license. That's right, no recurring fees whatsoever! Trusted by more than 2 million users, including Fujifilm, Deloitte, Hitachi, and other Fortune 500 companies, find out more about this hip PDF editor.
👍 PROS:
  • Perpetual license available, no monthly or yearly recurring fee
  • Ability to remove watermarks
  • Allows clean and clear annotations even on mobile devices such as iPad and tablet
  • Protect PDF documents with passwords and permissions
  • Redact and whiteout tools
  • Streamlined, easy-to-use interface
  • Ability to extract data from form fields
  • Dark/light mode
  • Create professional-looking forms from ready-made templates
  • Bates numbering, batch processing, and spellcheck tools
  • Ability to adjust font and style, add header and footer, stamps, watermarks, and more
  • Convert more than 300 file formats
  • Indexing method for organizing all your PDF documents
  • The OCR tool supports 20+ languages
  • 24/5 live chat, email, and phone support
👎 CONS:
  • It's not a lightweight software
  • Lacks demonstration videos
  • It doesn't support embedding videos in PDF files
  • Batch processing can be slow at times

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PDFELEMENT KEY DATA:

GENERAL INFO:

Price: From $6.67/month ($79.99/year)
Money-back guarantee: 30 days

PDF CONVERSION:

PDF to Word: YES
PDF to Excel: YES
PDF to JPG: YES
PDF to PPT: YES
PDF to RTF: YES
Word to PDF: YES
Excel to PDF: YES
JPG to PDF: YES
HTML to PDF: YES

PDF MANAGEMENT:

Merge PDF: YES
Split PDF: YES
Compress PDF: YES
Add watermark: YES
Add comment: YES
Annotation tool: YES

PDF PROTECTION:

Password restrictions: YES
Unlock PDF: YES
Permission levels: YES
Redact tool: YES
Whiteout: YES

EXTRAS:

OCR scanner: YES
3D reading: NO
View .cbr and .ePub files: YES

SUPPORT:

Live Chat: YES
Email Support: YES
Phone Support: YES
Ticket Support: YES


SEE WHAT USERS HAVE TO SAY

“Intuitive, powerful, and affordable! I have been using PDFelement Pro for over three years and am quite pleased with it. The layout is really user-friendly, and the functions are ideal for my requirements! I use PDFelement to read and create PDFs, edit and fill out PDF forms, convert files to multiple formats, and secure and sign PDF documents.”

“ Great PDF management tool. I am a self-employed hydropower consultant, working from a home office, so I have to deal with a lot of technical and commercial documents every day. A lot of them are in PDF format so it is very important for me to have a proper software to manage this type of documents.”

“PDFelement goes a long way to helping me have a paperless office. I use PDFelement to help keep paperwork for my business in the virtual realm instead of having reams of papers in files. As a pet sitting business, we need service agreements, pet information forms, and similar documents for each customer. That's a lot of paper that I don't want to have lying around.”


FEATURES

  • Edit PDFs - Get full control of your PDF documents with PDFelement's robust editing capabilities. On top of the basic editing functions, you can also edit the size, font, and color of text and images, add or remove watermarks, stamps, headers and footers, and bates numbers, or move and align objects, all without changing the original format of the document. You can even correct typing errors and spelling mistakes!

  • Convert PDFs - PDFelement lets you open and convert PDFs into 300+ formats including .doc, xls, .ppt, jpeg, gif, png, pdf/a, .log, .epub, .log, .config, RTF, and HTML, just to name a few.

  • Batch Processing - Speed things up by performing various PDF tasks in batches. You can extract data, merge files, compress, or print PDF documents in batches rather than separately.

  • Create PDFs - Create PDFs from screen captures, clipboards, and scanners or start fresh with a blank PDF.

  • Markup and Annotate - Designed with small to medium-sized businesses in mind, PDFelement offers a wide array of collaboration features. You can highlight or call attention to important parts of the document with arrows or shapes, comments, underline, and strikethrough. You can also add stamps, sticky notes, drawings, and more!


    • ARE THERE ANY EXTRAS?

  • Create interactive and fillable PDF forms - Improve your workflow and productivity while reducing paper waste by using fillable PDF forms. Go ahead and turn existing non-fillable forms into editable forms or create a new one using pre-made templates. You can customize your forms with text fields, checkboxes, labels, radio buttons, push buttons, or signature fields.

  • Protect PDF - Control who can access or alter your PDF document by adding a password or setting restrictions on who can open, print, edit, or copy content. You can also choose to remove or hide sensitive information such as names, birth dates, addresses, Social Security numbers, account numbers, and more.

  • OCR - Forget manually scanning receipts, invoices, certificates, images, and other important documents. With PDFelement's powerful OCR feature, you can automate data capture for archiving and data collection purposes. Extract data from text, forms, images, pages, and more. Need to change anything? You can edit the document without changing the original look and format!

  • Sign PDFs - Say goodbye to wet ink signatures. PDFelement lets you fill, sign, or collect legally-binding signatures from anywhere, anytime.


    • EASE OF USE

    PDFelement is just as feature-rich as Adobe Acrobat, but its UX design is easier to navigate. It's fully optimized, so you can seamlessly switch between Windows and Mac devices without any disruption. It features an intelligent text editor and ready-made templates so you can manage your PDF files smoothly across multiple devices — desktop, mobile, and web.


    PRICING AND PLANS

    You can get an individual license for PDFelement Pro for as low as $6.67/month if you prepay yearly. However, if you want to manage PDF files on your mobile device, get the Pro Bundle for $8.33/month. Not a fan of recurring payments? You can also make a one-time payment of US$ 129.99 for the Pro version or US$ 159.99 for the bundle. This means your license won't expire since you basically own it. Prices are subject to change without notice.


    CUSTOMER SUPPORT

    Aside from PDFelement, Wondershare's website also features other creativity, productivity, and utility products. As such, their knowledge base section is quite extensive and features tons of how-to articles, video tutorials, and troubleshooting guides. It even has a dedicated User Guide for every platform. If you prefer human interaction, however, you can get in touch with the support staff via email, phone, or live chat. They are open Monday to Friday, 24 hours a day.

    United States: +1 (442) 245-3674
    Canada: +1 (442) 245-3674
    Asia: +1 (855) 808-1885
    Europe: +44 808 169 7181
    Other: +1 (844) 326-5975

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