PDF Assist

Fully featured PDF manipulation tool

Basic Features:

The following features are all included in the base price purchase:

• Redaction:

Secure redaction of content from PDF files, including automatic marking of common areas such as NI Numbers, UTR tax references, phone numbers and dates. Selected content is completely removed not just masked or hidden with a black rectangle unlike some other products!

• Annotation:

Highlight, underline, strikethrough, and squiggly text markup. Free hand drawing. Shapes - line, rectangle, circle, arrow, polygon, cloud, and text callout. Stamps. Sticky notes. Text and ink signatures.

• Merge / Split:

Split existing PDF every x pages. Merge multiple PDF files into one PDF file.

• Mark:

Add custom or pre-defined watermark to all pages.

• Convert:

Convert PDF to Excel, Word, HTML or Image. Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, Image, TIFF to PDF. Extract all text from PDF. Perform OCR on scanned PDF or image to convert it into editable text.

• Protect:

Encrypt and password protect PDF file for viewing. Encrypt and protect PDF files and decide whether to allow printing, modification or extraction of text. Unprotect existing PDF files.

• Portfolio:

Create a PDF Portfolio containing multiple file formats including Images, Word, Excel and Text files – all of which remain in original file format and appear as tiles down side of PDF document.

• Tools:

Get document information. Check files for corruption and fix where possible. Compress existing PDF files by optimizing images, fonts, page content and removing metadata information.

• Additional Features:

Touch / stylus support.

Settings allow you to choose whether PDF Assist starts in redaction mode or annotation mode, and also allows you to enable/disable automatic marking for redaction and to choose which areas are marked automatically.

All documents created and modified by the tool will have author information added which will consist of the name of the currently logged on user, which is useful for auditing purposes.

Thumbnail views.

Rotate, rearrange and delete pages.

Form filling.

Premium Features:

The following additional features are available as part of the annual premium subscription:

• Accurately convert PDF to Excel with automatic recognition of tabular content.

• Convert PDF to Word ensuring the document retains the flow and layout of your original file.

• Automatically convert scanned and/or rotated documents into editable content.

• Convert PDF to PowerPoint retaining the original design and layout.

Sample conversions can be found on my website.

* Features subject to change.

Product Trial:

A fully functional trial version is available via my website - https://www.pcassistsoftware.co.uk/pdfassist.html

Discounts are available for multiple computers / enterprise licenses - please contact me for further details.

N.B. Requires elevated (admin) permissions to install.

Prerequisites:

Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable