PDF-XChange Editor is a comprehensive PDF editor that allows you to create, view, edit, annotate, and digitally sign PDF documents with ease. With advanced features like OCR, document security, and PDF optimization, PDF-XChange Editor is a powerful tool for both personal and professional use.
Whether you need to edit text, images, or links, or add comments, stamps, or watermarks, PDF-XChange Editor provides all the necessary tools to make your PDFs look perfect. Additionally, it supports a wide range of file formats, including PDF, XPS, and DOCX, making it easy to convert and share your documents.
PDF-XChange Editor key features:
- Edit text and images in PDF documents
- Add and remove pages from PDF files
- Annotate and markup PDFs with comments, highlights, and stamps
- Use OCR to convert scanned documents into searchable text
- Create and fill out PDF forms
- Sign and certify PDF documents digitally
- Add and edit hyperlinks within PDFs
- Extract text and images from PDF files
- Batch process multiple PDF files at once
- Customize the interface to your preferences
- Work with multiple documents in tabs
- Convert PDFs to other formats such as Word, Excel, and HTML
- Use advanced redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information
- Add customizable headers and footers to PDFs
- Merge multiple PDF documents into a single file
- Split PDF documents into multiple files
- Add watermarks to PDF documents
- Use the measurement tools to calculate distances and areas in PDFs
- ....and much more
PDF-XChange Editor 11.0.0.0 changelog:
- Add a FreeSign tool that enables adding signatures and initials directly to a page.
- Added a signature markup tool, which enables the creation of places in documents where requested persons can add signatures, initials etc.
- Added enhanced Open/Save file dialogs to provide seamless, consistent navigation across multiple local and cloud storage locations.
- Reworked and replaced the 3D plugin with a version that supports BREP models and improves 3D model navigation.
- Introduced the ability to search files directly in connected cloud storage.
- The optimizer will now discard duplicates of images in comments.For the "Optimize PDF" operation, the ability to discard duplicate images not only in content but also in comments has been added.
- The optimizer now optimizes images in comments.For the "PDF Optimization" operation in the "Images" tab added option "Apply to Comments". If it is selected, images in comments will also be optimized.
- The optimizer now has the option to flatten fields and markup comments.For the "Optimize PDF" operation, the ability to flatten Form Fields and Markup comments has been added.
- Added the ability to mark bookmarks with invalid actions. (T# 7272) 45161
- Added the ability to enable additional link highlighting. (T# 7518) 46389
- Added the ability to save a list of files for future use (T# 7463) 46186Ability to save a files list and selected page ranges as an external file with the "Combine Files", "Create PDF Portfolio", "Batch Link"
- Added an AI Assistant to enhance PDF workflows with AI-powered search, summaries, explanations, and interactive document assistance. AI Assistant is a new plugin for PDF-XChange Editor that adds a document-aware AI panel to help users understand, summarize, and analyze PDF content more efficiently. Users can ask questions about the currently opened document or choose from a set of ready-made actions, including summaries, simplified explanations, contact information extraction, key date detection, task and deadline extraction, fact listing, inconsistency checks, risk highlighting, and insight or recommendation generation. The Assistant supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI models and is designed to improve reading, review, research, and information extraction workflows without requiring users to copy document text into an external tool.
Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:
- Fixed the issue where creating a stamp from a selection left some content around the selection in the new stamp. (T# 6482)
- Fixed the issue where comments were flattened when saving edited stamps. (T# 7610) 45879
- Fixed an issue with resizing stamps. (T# 7784) 49282
- Fixed an issue where transparent objects became too transparent after grayscale rasterization. (T# 7675) 48356
- Refactored the document save procedure to address intermittent errors primarily observed on synchronized drives and network shares (e.g., mapped OneDrive).
- Fixed issues with handling zoom levels specified for a layer in the context of Loupe/PanZoom windows. 49219
- Fixed the issue with resizing rotated text objects. (T# 7780) 49255
- Fixed an issue with restoring previous user settings for horizontal alignment in the "Merge Pages" dialog box. 49115
- Fixed an issue with importing comments with replies. (T# 7752)
- Fixed an issue with the `Extract Layers` feature not working correctly. (T# 7672)
- Fixed an issue with restoring the last view position for duplicate tabs of the same document in different frames when restoring sessions. (T# 7791)
- Fixed an issue with saving form field highlight settings that were changed via the UI. 49318
- Fixed the issue with gaps showing during page‑size calculations when at least one side exceeded the maximum allowed dimensions in the "Merge Pages" feature. 49369
- Fixed an issue in the logic implemented in the `Apply Layers Overrides` command that caused inconsistencies between PDF X‑Change and Acrobat. The command has been renamed to `Set Current States as Default`. 43818
- Fixed an issue where the "Delete" button was incorrectly available when nothing was selected in the Document Metadata list. (T# 7734) 48877
- Fixed issues with link generation for MaxiCode barcodes (T# 7197) 44532
- Fixed an issue where the command status of bookmarks did not update after an undo operation. (T# 7786) 49249
- Added the option "Visible On" for the "Add Background" feature. (T# 7644) 47958
- Added the ability to use hotkeys to show previews in the "Crop Pages" dialog box. (T# 7739) 48471
- Added the ability to reorganize stamp collections and stamps via drag-and-drop. (T# 4862)
- Improved the functionality of searching for stamps. (T# 7738) 48755
- Added the ability to distribute two selected objects in the "Distribute to Page" and "Distribute to Object Spacing" options. (T# 7769) 49144
- Added the ability to prevent files from being added to the `Recent Files` list if they were opened with the `hidden` flag. (T# 7785) 49274
- Added an option to save only the session from the current window. 48600
- Added an option to export a form to an existing file with data merging, and an option to inherit the tab order of fields in the `Export Form Data` feature when saving in CSV/TXT format. (T# 7289, 7302) 37673
- Added an option to create a border around pages in the "Merge Pages" feature. (T# 7777)
- Added an option to the "Correct Scans" tool for choosing a new page size.
Download: PDF-XChange Editor (64-bit) | Portable ~300.0 MB (Shareware)
Download: PDF-XChange Editor (32-bit) | Portable ~200.0 MB
Download: PDF-XChange ARM64 | 276.0 MB
Download: PDF-XChange Portable @PortableApps.com | 97.0 MB
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