PDF-XChange Editor

Produced by PDF-XChange Co. Ltd

PDF-XChange Editor is a fast, feature-rich Windows application for viewing, creating, editing, annotating, converting, organizing and securing PDF documents. It combines an efficient interface with more than 400 features for individuals, professionals and organizations working with PDFs.

PDF-XChange Editor is available under a perpetual-licensing model, with no ongoing subscription required, making it a cost-effective choice for both individual users and organizations. It also offers an expanding set of AI-powered features designed to enhance document workflows and productivity.

A large selection of features is available free of charge. Licensed features expand the application’s capabilities for advanced document editing, conversion, optimization, redaction and other professional workflows.

View and navigate PDFs

• Open and view PDF documents using a range of page-layout and zoom options.
• Navigate documents using thumbnails, bookmarks, links and named destinations.
• Search individual documents, multiple open documents or folders of PDF files.
• Work with PDF portfolios, attachments, layers and 3D PDF content.
• Customize toolbars, keyboard shortcuts and the application interface.

Create and convert documents

• Create PDF documents from files, images, scanned content, clipboard content, text, RTF, Markdown and web pages.
• Combine multiple source files into a single PDF document.
• Convert PDF content to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats, as well as image and text formats.
• Convert documents to PDF/A for long-term preservation and PDF/X for print-production workflows.
• Use optical character recognition (OCR) to make scanned documents searchable and selectable.

Edit and organize PDF content

• Edit document text, images, shapes and other base content directly.
• Insert, delete, extract, replace, reorder, rotate, crop, resize and split pages.
• Add and manage headers, footers, watermarks, backgrounds and Bates numbering.
• Create and edit bookmarks, links and named destinations.
• Optimize documents to reduce file size and remove unnecessary content.

Review and collaborate

• Add highlights, notes, text boxes, callouts, stamps, shapes and freehand annotations.
• Use distance, perimeter and area measurement tools.
• Import, export, summarize and manage comments.
• Attach files, audio and other content to PDF documents.
• Apply customized comment styles for consistent review workflows.

Protect and sign documents

• Redact sensitive document content permanently.
• Apply password protection, permissions and security policies.
• Add, validate and manage certificate-based digital signatures.
• Certify and timestamp documents and support long-term signature validation.
• Sanitize documents to remove hidden or sensitive information.

Create and check accessible PDFs

• Create, inspect and edit document tags.
• Review and modify the reading order of page content.
• Add alternative-text descriptions to document content.
• Run accessibility checks and review identified issues in the Accessibility Checker and Report panes.

Flexible deployment and licensing

PDF-XChange Editor is available for Windows as an end-user desktop application. It is offered with perpetual licensing and maintenance options for individual users, teams and organizations. A portable version is also available for supported deployment scenarios.

Learn more about PDF-XChange Editor: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

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