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There’s more to Portable Document Format manipulation than Adobe Acrobat.
There’s no getting away from it, Adobe Acrobat is a very good piece of software. But it’s far from the only kid on the block. There are some great alternative PDF converters and readers available, that can be had cheaper, or even free.
From batch conversions, to advanced form editing and recognition technology, our Top 5 alternative PDF converters and readers have something for everyone.
As always, if you use a program that you love and we’ve not featured, please let us know in the comments section below.
Enjoy!
Wondershare PDFelement 6
Designed as to take on the might of Adobe Acrobat, Wondershare PDFelement 6 combines a brilliant user-interface with a ton of powerful tools. With Wondershare PDFelement 6 you can edit text, graphics, watermarks, digital signatures, in fact almost any attribute of a PDF document you can think of. It can also convert between PDFs and hundreds of other file types, including all popular Microsoft Office file types. Other key features include paragraph editing, spell check, one-click form creation, hundreds of pdf templates; merge/split; and text autofill. And if you pay for the extra for the Professional version, you get batch process, optical character recognition (OCR), and the ability to convert boring old static Office forms into interactive, fillable PDF forms. Pretty cool, eh?