Current version: 10.4.4.392

Supported operating systems: All current versions of MS Windows operating systems, and previous versions that are maintained with service updates from Microsoft, are supported for this product.

Prices start at USD $56.00 for Editor and USD $72.00 for Editor Plus

Please note: two license options are available - PDF-XChange Editor and PDF-XChange Editor Plus. PDF-XChange Editor Plus includes the extra features detailed below. These features are not available in an unrestricted capacity with a regular PDF-XChange Editor license.

PDF-XChange Editor Plus Features

The following additional features are available in PDF-XChange Editor Plus:

Enhanced OCR Engine

PDF-XChange Editor Plus comes with an Enhanced OCR engine that is more accurate, dynamic and efficient than the default OCR engine in PDF-XChange Editor.

Create and Edit Fillable Forms

PDF-XChange Editor Plus features a range of dynamic form-creation options. Adjust form properties to avail of a range of customizable style, layout and function options for forms.

Create Dynamic Stamps

PDF-XChange Editor Plus includes functionality to add dynamic JavaScript actions to stamps, enabling the creation of stamps that will display dynamic information such as the current date.

Compare Documents

The Compare Documents feature can be used to compare documents, and provides a summary of differences including replacements, insertions, deletions and style changes between documents

Identify Forms

The Identify Forms feature enables the automated conversion of image-based or non-interactive PDF files to fully-interactive forms with clickable form fields.

What's new in PDF-XChange Editor?

Check out some of the features added in this new build of the software:

Generate Links from Barcodes

This new feature makes it possible to generate links from barcodes in PDF-XChange Editor.

New Highlight Tools Added to the Software

The Highlight Area and Free Highlight tools are now available in PDF-XChange Editor. These tools enable you to highlight document areas and create freehand highlights on your documents.

Per-Document JavaScript Options

PDF-XChange Editor now has the ability to remember on a per-document basis the user preference for allowing JavaScript to run.

Support for Azure Purview

You can now use Azure Purview labels to protect documents in PDF-XChange Editor.

Features

PDF-XChange Editor has more than 300 features that you can use to perform a huge range of operations on PDF documents, as detailed below.

Edit Documents

Arrange Selected Content Items

Use the Arrange options to align, distribute or otherwise arrange selected document items.

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Compare Documents

The Compare Documents feature can be used to compare documents, and provides a summary of of differences including replacements, insertions, deletions and style changes between documents.

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Copy Base Content with Ctrl+Drag

You can use Ctrl+drag to copy base content with PDF-XChange Editor.

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Copy, Cut, Delete or Zoom to Selected Content

Use the Selection options to copy, cut, delete or zoom to selected content as desired.

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Correct Text with the Text Correction Tool

Use the Text Correction feature to add annotations that indicate base content text should be removed or replaced.

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Create Custom Stamps

Use the Stamp tool to create custom stamps for your documents.

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Create Documents from Selected Content

Convert selected content into new documents at the click of a button.

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Create Stamps from Selected Content

Use this feature to create new stamps from selected document content.

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Create/Edit/Remove Weblinks

Use the weblinks feature to convert document URLs into weblinks, or remove weblinks from documents, at the click of a button.

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Crop to White Margins

The Crop to White Margins feature makes it possible to redefine the visible area of the document to match the Bound Box of the content on each page.

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Draw Lines for Tables in OCR

This OCR functionality makes it possible to control table detection in order to improve performance for certain document formats.

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Duplicate Selected Content

Use the Duplicate Content feature to create copies of selected annotations or content items. Specify horizontal/vertical/page offsets as desired.

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Edit Base Content Vector Objects

It is now possible to create, edit, and manipulate paths (shapes) on page content with PDF-XChange Editor.

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Edit Document Content in Third-Party Applications

Export content directly into third-party applications for editing. Content updates instantly in PDF-XChange Editor when it is saved in third-party applications.

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Edit Documents -> Edit Document Pages

Crop Document Pages

Use the Crop functions to crop pages and/or page ranges, with the option to delete cropped content as desired.

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Delete Document Pages

Use this feature to delete pages from documents.

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Delete Empty Document Pages

Use this feature to delete empty pages from documents.

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Duplicate Document Pages

This feature can be used to duplicate document pages.

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Extract Document Pages

Use the Extract Pages feature to extract pages/page ranges from documents to a new file.

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Merge Document Pages

Use the Merge Pages feature to merge split pages.

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Move Document Pages

Use the Move feature to move groups of pages to a new location in the document.

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Normalize Pages

You can use the Normalize Pages feature to remove redundant rotations and media box offsets in documents.

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Overlay Document Pages

Use the Overlay Pages feature to overlay documents with existing document pages.

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Replace Document Pages

Use this feature to replace document pages with pages from a different document.

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Resize Document Pages

Use this feature to resize document pages.

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Rotate Document Pages

Use the Rotate Pages feature to rotate document pages.

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Select Page Region Tool

This tool can be used to cut, delete and manipulate page content.

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Set Margins on Document Pages

It is now possible to set margins for pages with PDF-XChange Editor.

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Split Document Pages

The Split Pages feature can be used split document pages into smaller sections.

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Swap Document Pages

Use the Swap Pages feature to swap the location of two document pages.

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Edit PDF Portfolio Files

Use PDF-XChange Editor to view and edit PDF portfolio files. Note that editing Portfolio files requires a license.

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Edit and Manipulate Images

Use a range of image-editing options to edit document images. Replace, Recompress, Save and/or OCR images.

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Edit the Base Content of Documents

Use PDF-XChange Editor to edit the base content of documents. Please note that a license is required to edit all content except for text-based content. The Edit Content Tool can still be used to edit non-text based content in unlicensed versions, but watermarks will be added when documents are printed/saved.

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Enable Snapping for Precision Editing

Enable the Snapping feature to align the edges of comments, annotations, images and other content flawlessly to grids, guides and/or objects.

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Enhanced Color Options for Document Objects

You can avail of a range of options for changing the color of objects in PDF-XChange Editor. We support RGB, HSV, HLS, Gray and Lab color spaces.

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Enhanced Layers Functionality

Define a default layer when placing comments and content into documents, and click and drag items from the content pane to the layers pane in order to specify the layer to which the content belongs.

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Export Content to MS Office Formats

Use the Export feature to export selected content to MS Word, Excel or Powerpoint formats. Please note that source files must be text-based in order to be converted into editable text. Additionally, please note that this is a licensed feature. If this operation is performed without a license then the output documents will be password-protected. PDFs converted to MS Word format are compatible with MS Word 2010 and later.

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Export Snapshots to Images from the Shortcut Menu

Export document snapshots to images via the right-click shortcut menu in PDF-XChange Editor.

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Find and Redact Document Content

Use the Find and Redact feature to find and redact specified document content such as text, credit card numbers and dates.

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Flatten Layers to Base Content

Use the Flatten Layers feature to flatten layers into base content.

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Font Replacement Feature

Use the Replace Fonts feature to change the style, size and color of document fonts, including those used in comments and form fields.

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Guide Line Enhancements

It is now possible to import and export guide lines, view/edit guide line properties and select multiple guide lines at the same time in PDF-XChange Editor.

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Insert Pages into Documents

Use this feature to insert pages into documents.

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Insert RTF Files into Documents

Use this feature to insert RTF (rich text format) files into documents.

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Insert Text Files into Documents

Use this feature to insert text files into documents.

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Multiple Document Windows

Use the New Document Window feature to view the same document in multiple windows that update simultanesouly when documents are edited.

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Multiple Layer Selection Options

Select document layers according to a range of criteria, such as all Visible, Hidden or Empty layers.

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Multiple Options for Word Selection

Double-click on document text, or use Ctrl+Shift+arrows to select words.

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Navigate Documents

Use the Hand Tool to browse seamlessly through documents.

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Normalize Media Box Offsets

Use the Normalize Media Box Offset feature to reset page coordinate offsets when cropping or resizing document pages.

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Paste Copied Text as Plain Text

The Paste as Plain Text feature can be used to paste copied text into documents as plain text.

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Paste from Clipboard Options

Paste options in PDF-XChange Editor enable you to paste text as plain text/rich text in documents, paste text as a new bookmark title, paste text as a new document in the Attachments pane or a new page in the Thumbnails pane.

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Redact Documents

Use the redaction feature to remove content permanently from documents.

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Rename Documents

Use the Rename Document feature to rename open documents in PDF-XChange Editor.

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Sanitize Documents

Use the Sanitize Document feature to remove sensitive information from documents.

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Select Base Content Text

Use the Select Text Tool to select base content text in documents.

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Select Highlighted Text

Select text that is already highlighted in documents with PDF-XChange Editor.

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Select Pages Options for Thumbnails

Use the Select Pages options in the Thumbnails pane to select thumbnails with specified content such as text, images or comments.

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Shrink Page Content in Headers and Footers/Bates Numbering

This new feature enables the shrinking of page content in order to ensure that the text in Headers and Footers/Bates Numbering does not overlap with page content.

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Simultaneous Editing of Identical Document Images

This feature can be used to edit all identical images in documents at the same time.

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Spell Check Documents

Use the advanced document spell-check feature to ensure documents are error-free.

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Split Documents by Size

The Split Document by Size feature makes it possible to split a document into smaller documents of a user-specified size.

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Split Pages by Guide Lines

The Split Pages by Guide Lines feature makes it possible to split document pages via existing page guide lines.

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Take Document Snapshots

Use the Snapshot Tool to take snapshots of the current document view that copy to the local clipboard in bitmap format.

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Text List Formatting Options

Bullet point and numbered lists are now available when adding/editing base content text in PDF-XChange Editor.

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Transform Selected Content

Use the Transform Selection feature to edit the size, location and rotation of selected content items.

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Updated Enhanced OCR Engine

The Enhanced OCR engine in PDF-XChange Editor has been updated to ABBYY Finereader, which is a significant improvement on the previous OCR engine. Text is recognized at a far higher degree of accuracy and more than 190 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, are now supported for this feature.

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Edit Documents -> Use Editing Panes to View/Edit Document Content

Use the 3D Model Tree Pane to View/Edit 3D Comments

The 3D Model Tree Pane to view, manipulate and edit 3D comments in documents.

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Use the Attachments Pane to View/Edit Document Attachments

Use the Attachments pane to add attachments to documents.

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Use the Comments Pane to View /Edit Comments

The Comments pane details a breakdown of all comments in documents and provides a way to edit/update those comments.

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Use the Content Pane to View/Edit Document Content

The Content Pane enables the direct selection and editing of document images, text and other content. A dynamic range of editing options is available for selected content items.

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Use the Destinations Pane to View/Edit Named Destinations in Documents

This pane is used to manage named destinations, which are user-defined locations in documents that can be used in conjunction with a range of other features in order to enhance documents.

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Use the History Pane to View/Edit the History of Opened Documents

The History Pane details recently open documents and provides additional display/grouping options to the existing list of recently opened documents.

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Use the Layers Pane to View/Edit Document Layers

This pane is used to view/edit optional content layers in documents.

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Use the Links Pane to View/Edit Document Links

This pane is used to view/edit links in documents.

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Use the Properties Pane to View/Edit the Properties of Selected Document Content

The properties pane can be used to view and edit properties for selected document content.

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Use the Signatures Pane to View/Edit Signature Information

Use the signature pane to view/edit digital signature information.

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Use the Thumbnails Pane to View/Edit Document Pages

The Thumbnails Pane provides a quick and efficient way of viewing and editing document pages.

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Use Guides and Rulers to Enhance the Editing Process

Use the Guides feature to align document content and the Rulers feature to check the size of document objects.

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Edit Documents -> Use Layers in Documents

Add Layers

Use this feature to add optional content layers to documents.

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Add Links to Layers

Add links to layers with PDF-XChange Editor.

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Edit Layers

Avail of a range of options for editing document layers.

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Merge Selected Layers

You can now merge selected layers with PDF-XChange Editor.

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Remove Layers

Use this feature to remove layers from documents.

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Reorder Layers

Use this feature to reorder layers in PDF-XChange Editor.

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Use Comments and Content with Layers

Define a default layer when placing comments and content into documents, or click and drag items from the content pane to the layers pane in order to specify the layer to which the content belongs.

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Use the Arrow Keys Move Selected Page Objects Diagonally

It is now possible to use the arrow keys to move selected objects diagonally in documents.

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Use the Format Tab to Edit Document Content

The Format tab can be used to avail of a range of options for editing document content.

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Utilize Macros to Enhance the Editing Process

Utilize Macros to enhance the process of editing documents.

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Edit Documents -> Edit Document Text

'Tab Stop' Property for Text

PDF-XChange Editor includes functionality to view/edit the Tab Stop property for document text.

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Add/Edit Document Text

Use the Add Text feature to add text to documents at the base-content level.

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Find and Replace Text

You can use the Find and Replace tool to find and replace text in documents.

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FEATURE COMPARISON CHART

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Creating Dynamic Stamps

This video provides step by step instructions to create your own Custom Dymanic Stamps with the PDF-XChange Editor Plus.

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The following additional features are available in PDF-XChange Editor Plus:

Enhanced OCR Engine

Create and Edit Fillable Forms

Create Dynamic Stamps

Compare Documents

Identify Forms

What's new in PDF-XChange Editor?

Features

Edit Documents

Edit Documents -> Edit Document Pages

Edit Documents -> Use Editing Panes to View/Edit Document Content

Edit Documents -> Use Layers in Documents

Edit Documents -> Edit Document Text

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