PDFgear

PDFgear, in its latest version 2.1.8.6, developed by PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD., is a top-tier solution in the Office Tools category, specifically within the Document management subcategory. This comprehensive program, with a modest file size of 128.1 MB, is compatible with Windows 10/7/8/11.

One of the most striking features of PDFgear is its extensive functionality. User experience is greatly enhanced by the ability to easily view, chat, mark up, modify, convert, OCR, and manage PDF files. With PDFgear, users can view PDF documents with support for single page, double page, and continuous reading modes. The program also supports PDF creation from various file types like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, and TXT, ensuring there is no loss of formatting during the conversion.

Annotation capabilities are robust, allowing users to highlight text, underline, strikethrough, draw, and add comments or stamps to their PDFs, as well as hide annotations. Editing is seamless with capabilities to format, edit, and add text and includes extra functions like filling forms, adding links, headers, footers, and watermarks. The organizing features are equally strong, with options to merge & split, extract, insert, delete, reorder, crop, and rotate pages.

For those looking to convert their PDFs, PDFgear offers easy transformation into MS Office documents, images, RTF, HTML, XML, and more. Multiple PDFs can be converted at once, making it a time-saving tool. Compression of PDFs is handled smoothly with three levels of compression (Low, Medium, and High), and batch compression is also supported.

The printing features are highly customizable, offering a range of options from printer selection to paper size and print scaling. When it comes to security, PDFgear provides options to Password Protect and Remove Passwords. Signing PDFs is straightforward using an existing signature image, typing, or handwriting.

One of the most innovative features is PDFgear AI Copilot, which processes plain language commands for editing, converting, and compressing PDFs, and can even summarize content, setting it apart from traditional PDF editors.

Pros:

• Wide range of features from viewing to converting and compressing PDFs.
• Intuitive annotation and editing tools.
• Support for multiple compression levels and batch processing.
• Customizable printing options.
• Robust security features like password protection and digital signing.

Cons:

• The software file size of 128.1 MB might be large for users with limited storage space.

Download PDFgear today and take advantage of this free yet powerful document management tool that caters to all your PDF needs.

It is not possible to confirm if there is a free download for this software available on the developer's website. According to the results of the Google Safe Browsing check, the developer's site is safe. Despite this, we recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus software.

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