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PDF-XChange Editor

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Feature-rich PDF editor offering direct content editing, ABBYY OCR, viewing, annotation, form filling, PDF merging, compression, and encryption. Operates efficiently offline, requiring no registration and no ads, while providing privacy-focused features and convenient portability.

Version 10 (2024)

License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Application types

Country of Origin

  • CA flagCanada

Platforms

  • Windows  All current versions of MS Windows operating systems, and previous versions that are maintained with service updates from Microsoft, are supported for this product.
  • PortableApps.com
  • Wine
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (47)
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Customizable
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  PDF annotation
  2.  PDF OCR
  3.  Add/remove pages
  4.  Edit PDF
  5.  Portable
  6.  Split PDF files
  7.  Stamps
  8.  Create PDF files
  9.  OCR
  10.  Split and merge PDF files
  11.  No registration required
  12.  Metadata Editor
  13.  Dark Mode
  14.  Combine PDF
  15.  Works Offline
  16.  Sign PDF files
  17.  Convert images to PDF
  18.  Ad-free
  19.  Integrated Search
  20.  Visual bookmarks
  21.  Export to PowerPoint
  22.  Fill PDF Forms
  23.  Bates numbering
  24.  Full-Text Search
  25.  PDF compression
  26.  Handwritten Notes
  27.  Spell Checking
  28.  PDF encryption
  29.  No Tracking
  30.  Cloud Sync

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PDF-XChange Editor information

  • Developed by

    CA flagTracker Software
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $56 and $94 + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (47 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    135 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • French
    • Italian
    • Spanish
    • Russian
    • Turkish
    • Polish
    • Arabic
    • Dutch
    • Hungarian
    • Korean
    • Japanese
    • Chinese
    • Greek
    • Swedish
    • Czech
    • Serbian
    • Croatian

Our users have written 37 comments and reviews about PDF-XChange Editor, and it has gotten 163 likes

PDF-XChange Editor was added to AlternativeTo by piotrex on Oct 26, 2013 and this page was last updated Feb 13, 2025.

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Comment summary: PDF-XChange Editor is praised for its extensive features, customization options, and performance. Many users appreciate its affordability and functionality compared to Adobe Acrobat, noting its lightweight, fast operation, and powerful editing tools. Positive feedback highlights its versatility across professional contexts, and the availability of a portable version. However, some concerns include user interface complexity, unfinished features, and a perceived lack of open-source availability. A few users express dissatisfaction with its free version and customer service.
Top Positive Comment
valerypatt
Mar 30, 2017
4

That PDF-XChange Editor is exactly great one if you are looking for the smartest, fastest, do-everything-you-need software for your different kind of works with documents (scanning, creating, editing, even signing and filling forms). It is excellent as well as for teachers/students, and for accountants/sale managers, and for architectures/engineers. Editor includes the same features as Adobe has, some of them are more detailed, more flexible in use. Also, there is the portable version.

Top Negative Comment
TBayAreaPat
May 9, 2023
0

Awkward to use.. poor sense of form structure for filling. Demo mode warns of mark.. 4 big rivet-style images on the corners of each page.

pandaM3CH4
Mar 4, 2025
0

Extraordinarily stable and usable. Even setting aside how bad Adobe Acrobat is.

Gwrvan Barré
Sep 28, 2024
1

PDF-XChange Editor is the most powerful application (more than Adobe Acrobat). I tested ALL the other applications (really all...) and PDF-XChange Editor is the only one that offers this much functionality for free.

neo-eon-one
Jun 18, 2024
0

Issue: After installing this Microsoft Office stopped working. Re-installed & reset M/s Office but it did not work. Uninstalled this to make it work again.

Update: There is some issue with my system, so its not really PDF XChange Editor

gregoryem
Jun 14, 2024
0

Pretty ok, but lack of pages rearranging feature, which previous PDF-XCHANGE Viewer had, is painful.

mandrael
Apr 26, 2024
1

Pdf XChange Editor is a lightweight, fast Pdf editor for Windows. Great editing capabilities, good replacement for Adobe Acrobat. OCR from ABBYY. Even batch form filling from csv/txt files is possible (one flattened pdf each line). All in all I tried a lot alternatives and this is by far the best for Windows. Only downside is: it's only available for Windows. For Mac an alternative would be Pdf Expert, but it is by far not as powerful as Pdf XChange. And last but not least: There is no subscription model, but a classic selling with maintainance option, so you can really buy (not rent) it.

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What is PDF-XChange Editor?

The smallest, fastest, most feature-rich PDF editor/viewer available

  • Full Direct Content Editing (text based PDFs, not scanned/image based PDFs)
  • Includes OCR feature (powered by ABBYY)
  • View, Edit, and annotate PDF files
  • Fill forms, also batch creating Pdfs based on data files (csv/txt)