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PDF24 Creator

PDF24 Creator is free and feature-filled PDF creation, merging and conversion tool for Windows. Its unique feature among the free PDF printer tools is an editor, which allows to easily assemble, create and modify PDF files with Drag & Drop.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Windows
4.7
Excellent23 ratings
153likes
25comments
0articles

Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Combine PDF
  2.  Convert PDF to image
  3.  PDF OCR
  4.  Print to PDF
  5.  Split and merge PDF files
  6.  Create PDF files
  7.  Add/remove pages
  8.  Works Offline
  9.  PDF compression
  10.  Convert images to PDF
  11.  PDF annotation
  12.  Scan to PDF
  13.  Dark Mode
  14.  Convert PDF to Text
  15.  Split PDF files
  16.  Convert PDF to Word document
  17.  Ad-free
  18.  Sign PDF files
  19.  PDF encryption
  20.  Fill PDF Forms
  21.  No registration required

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: PDF24 Creator earns strong praise as a free, feature-rich Windows toolkit for merging, converting, compressing, scanning and printing PDFs. Users value its offline operation, compression controls, reliability, clean download and deployment options. Recurring drawbacks include an outdated or confusing interface and limited in-place text editing. One user reports poor optimization results and a large installation, while another wishes for Linux support and open-source availability.
Top Positive Comment
Sklavit
3

One of few PDF desktop tools which can provide high compression and the only 1 with great control over compression process.

software_critic_1

How is it today? Any trojans or bloatwares or adwares injected in updates yet? (In my view after 20 years in this s/w development industry, In no world will anyone will give pdf editors for free, there could be free OS but not free pdf editors especially when company and its creators are anonymous and not reachable)

Aleksandr Dikov

@software_critic: Agreed, the software is too good to be free, I seen nothing similar, even some of paid alternatives doesn't work these ways. Perhaps, better one after Acrobat Pro. It's suspicious. But on other hand, seems that all of it is preparation for something different, they provides some online features, and user could create an account. Some of them are paid, fax service, for example.

And what did you mean "company and its creators are anonymous"? The company from Legal Notice doesn't exists?

software_critic_1

@M_O_Z_G I see today as of April-18-2020 I do see that the company is no more anonymous. The name: Stefan Ziegler is stamped on the About Us page. And I also see now some North American government libraries have started using it. I guess as of my first comment on Jan-2019 the author wanted to remain anonymous so as my hacker mindset was in as there are some app you might know are already there without their authors and you may know what they do with host system and their data. But this app as of today when I type my comment seems clean and without any built-in tracers if downloaded from the author's site.

JenmirGH

Also I'd like to add, that the firm behind it is officially registered in the companies register of germany and its listed headquaters are also real. I think its as thrust worthy as it gets for free proprietary programs.

Top Negative Comment
antonanton
2

Only basic functions are offline, the rest is online. The file optimization is haywire for solid books scans. During optimization the app had managed to alter a book size from 76MB to 92MB (!!!) on low quality settings, that is the app had implemented anti-optimization!!! The menus are muddy and non-user-friendly. The app occupies 840 MB on HDD - why the size is so huge for plain PDF-Editor??? Gonna use freeware PDF Arranger and NAPS2 instead of this flop.

zhiny

My app's size is 883MB. That's huge, indeed! Compared to Adobe Acrobat DC file size, which in my case is 1.3 GB, I'm wondering if this is normal.

y4assine
0

PDF24 Creator is one of the most complete free PDF tools available for Windows. The virtual printer approach works seamlessly and the included toolset covers merging, splitting, compressing, converting and more. It feels slightly old-school in terms of UI but it gets the job done reliably. The offline-first approach is a plus for anyone who prefers not to upload documents to a cloud service.

nttldnknwn
1

Simply a dream tool – everything is so simple and useful.

Many thanks to the developer for work.

Diatomee
1

Allows to combine PDFs in any order you like and to compress if needed

zhiny
1

I've been relying on PDF24 for all my PDF needs for over a year or more, and it's been a saver! I

KimiBCN
1

The best option I've found so far for editing PDFs. If it were compatible with Linux and open source, it would be perfect.

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What is PDF24 Creator?

PDF24 Creator is free and feature-filled PDF creation, merging and conversion tool for Windows. Its unique feature among the free PDF printer tools is an editor, which allows to easily assemble, create and modify PDF files with Drag & Drop. Other features:

  • Merge or split PDF files
  • Add, remove, extract, rotate, sort and move PDF pages
  • Integrated preview for PDF editing
  • Convert files to PDF and PDF files to other file types
  • Multiple PDF printers for different tasks
  • Scanner and Camera import
  • Overlay PDF files to combine document with digital paper
  • Compress PDF files
  • PDF OCR
  • PDF encryption, decryption and signing
  • Full featured and lightweight PDF reader
  • Drag & Drop wherever possible
  • Follow up tools: Save, Print, Email, Fax etc.

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PDF24 Creator information

  • Developed by

    DE flaggeek Software GmbH
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7 (23 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    199 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 25 comments and reviews about PDF24 Creator, and it has gotten 153 likes

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