PDF Studio™ is an easy to use, full-featured PDF editing software that is a reliable alternative to Adobe® Acrobat® and provides all PDF functions needed at a fraction of the cost. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard.

PDF Editing Features

Reviewing and Annotating

• Highlight, cross-out, underline text
• Add sticky notes, text boxes, and freehand (pencil) annotations
• Add hyperlinks (web url, file, or email)
• Add graphical annotations: circles, rectangles, lines, arrows, polygons, clouds
• Add sound annotations and record audio right into the PDF document
• Add rubber stamps, choose from predefined stamps or build your own
• Attach files to a PDF document
• Precision measuring tools for distances, areas and perimeters (Pro)
• Annotation review status
• Import and export annotations in FDF/ XFDF / XDP formats (Pro)
• Flatten annotations

Working with PDF Forms

• Interactive form designer  (Pro) Watch Video
• Fill in and save interactive PDF forms
• Support for JavaScript
• Also fill in non-interactive forms using the typewriter tool
• Import and export form data in FDF / XFDF / XDP formats (Pro)
• Flatten interactive form fields

Creating and Assembling Documents

• Scan papers directly to PDF
• OCR to create searchable documents on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (Pro)
• Convert Microsoft Word, images and text files to PDF Watch Video
• Extract, insert, move, rotate and delete pages Watch Video
• Create documents by merging multiple files into a single PDF (Pro)
• Split by bookmarks, page range, text search (Pro) Watch Video
• Sophisticated bookmark / document outline creation
• Apply headers, footers, watermarks or custom actions
• Set document properties and initial view
• Create Imposition layouts

Editing Content (Pro)

• Edit text content and properties (Pro)
• Edit shapes and path objects (Pro)
• Move, resize images (Pro)
• Redact text, images and shapes (Pro)
• Optimize PDFs to reduce file size (Pro)

Adding Security to PDF Documents

• Secure documents with passwords
• Encrypt with highest level of encryption
• Set user permissions on PDF documents
• Fast sign PDFs (type, draw, import signature)
• Digitally sign PDF documents (Pro) Watch Video
• Manage digital ids and trusted certificates (Pro)

Batch Functions (Pro)

• Work on multiple documents at once (Pro): Print, Set security, Convert, Extract text, Crop, Merge, Split, Apply Headers & Footers / Watermarks, Preflight, OCR, Rasterize, Set Initial View, and many more batch functions….

Advanced User Interface

• Text Search
• Quick navigation through thumbnails, bookmarks, signatures and comments panes
• Powerful tool chest to store recent and favorite markups
• Drag & drop pages to move them across documents Watch Video
• Compare 2 PDFs side by side (Pro)
• Compare 2 PDFs using overlay (Pro)
• Loupe tool
• Rulers and grid views
• Touch mode for tablets and touch screens

Conversion and PDF Sub-Formats

• Convert PDF to text, images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG)
• Convert images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG) to PDFs
• Convert Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Text files to PDF
• Convert PDF to HTML5 / SVG (Pro)
• Convert to Fast Web View (Linearize PDFs) (Pro)
• Convert to PDF/A (Pro)
• Preflight for PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/UA  (Pro)
• Create accessible tagged PDF

Third Party Integrations

• Integration with Docusign
• Integration with Document Services: Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive