Formerly known as Nuance Power PDF, Kofax's Power PDF software was designed with business users in mind, putting emphasis on features like file conversion and OCR. Like most PDF software suites, Kofax Power PDF sees Adobe as their main competitor, highlighting that their one time payment model makes them less expensive in the long run than Adobe's yearly payments.
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What Kofax Power PDF does best
Power PDF Advanced 3.0. Check the trial version, click on the image to donwload: 3: Power PDF Standard 3.0. Check the trial version, click on the image to donwload. 4: Kofax PDF for Mac 6.0. Check the trial version, click on the image to donwload. 5: Power PDF Standard 2.0. Check the trial version, click on the image to donwload: 6: Power. Power PDF is a great alternative for my personal computer and does some of the basic things I need for a reasonable price. Now that Nuance has sold it to Kofax, I hope they keep the price under $90, otherwise I may just pony up for BBR.
Kofax's software is designed mainly for businesses and as such excels in business related use cases. For example, taking scanned documents and using OCR to make their text editable. Kofax Power PDF also has all the other tools you'd expect with PDF editing software, with an easy to use interface for using them.
Power PDF's user interface is specifically what's known as a ribbon style interface, made to be similar to Microsoft Office's. This makes it intuitive to use in general, but especially so for those used to working with programs like Word and Excel. It's also very customizable, allowing users to tweak the interface as needed. Together these things help make working on documents a quick and easy process.
Features
Ssh file explorer. In addition to Power PDF's main feature of usability, it provides a multitude of editing, security, scanning and conversion features. For editing, Power PDF has the capability to edit PDFs similar to how you would in a word processor. There are also the usual tools for annotation along with ones for adding things like pictures, checkboxes and stamps. You can even make a table of contents for a PDF that doesn't already have one.
Security features are especially important for businesses or anyone working with sensitive data. Kofax Power PDF has a variety of tools for securing PDFs, including the usual password protection, as well as through Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management System and with tools that can restrict network connections.
With Kofax's OCR tools you can both make already existing scanned documents editable PDFs and directly scan paper documents into PDF files. Power PDF also has tools for converting PDFs to commonly used formats like those for Excel, Word and PowerPoint, as well as converting these file types to PDF.
All these features and more are available for the Standard edition of Kofax Power PDF. The Advanced edition of Power PDFs includes all these features as well as tools for signing PDFS and sending signatures, redacting sensitive information, collaborating over a network to edit and create PDFs, and for automating the creation of PDF files.
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Pricing
Kofax's Power PDF Standard has both a Windows and Mac edition which costs $129 for a perpetual licence. Power PDF Advanced has a perpetual licence available for $179.
As Kofax advertises, this ends up being a significant savings over Adobe's pricing model for long term use. All versions of Power PDF offer a free trial that can be downloaded as well.
What users have to say about Kofax Power PDF
People have lots of good things to say about Kofax Power PDF, one of the most common being praising its user interface as intuitive and easy to use. This ease of use translates to getting work on PDFs done faster and better productivity.
Other positives cited include the options for converting files to PDF and for creating new PDFs. Some users also really liked the OCR features, saying they're among the best they've used; although others have found them a bit lacking compared to others like Adobe and Abbyy FineReader.
One user left a review saying that their company purchased licenses for download not realizing there was a limited amount of time to download them and were unable to get a response from customer support about it.
Software details
Kofax Power PDF is available on Windows systems in Standard and Advanced editions. Just the Standard edition is available for macOS systems with all the features of Windows Standard version and a few extra. There are not any mobile apps available.
Bottom line
While Kofax Power PDF doesn't particularly shine above the competition, it is robust PDF software that comes with many great features at a reasonable price.
Our score: ★★★★☆ 4/5
Power PDF provides three ways to modify PDF documents:
Edit from Power PDF in Review mode, the normal mode for the program. See Edit from Power PDF in Review mode for details.
Edit from Power PDF in Advanced Edit mode, which is accessible from the Edit menu. See Edit from Power PDF in Advanced Edit mode for details.
Export to a program such as Word or Excel, make edits and then recreate a PDF. See Export to Word or Excel and recreate a modified PDF for detailed steps.
Edit from Power PDF in Review mode
Use Review mode for any of the following modifications:
Kofax's software is designed mainly for businesses and as such excels in business related use cases. For example, taking scanned documents and using OCR to make their text editable. Kofax Power PDF also has all the other tools you'd expect with PDF editing software, with an easy to use interface for using them.
Power PDF's user interface is specifically what's known as a ribbon style interface, made to be similar to Microsoft Office's. This makes it intuitive to use in general, but especially so for those used to working with programs like Word and Excel. It's also very customizable, allowing users to tweak the interface as needed. Together these things help make working on documents a quick and easy process.
Features
Ssh file explorer. In addition to Power PDF's main feature of usability, it provides a multitude of editing, security, scanning and conversion features. For editing, Power PDF has the capability to edit PDFs similar to how you would in a word processor. There are also the usual tools for annotation along with ones for adding things like pictures, checkboxes and stamps. You can even make a table of contents for a PDF that doesn't already have one.
Security features are especially important for businesses or anyone working with sensitive data. Kofax Power PDF has a variety of tools for securing PDFs, including the usual password protection, as well as through Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management System and with tools that can restrict network connections.
With Kofax's OCR tools you can both make already existing scanned documents editable PDFs and directly scan paper documents into PDF files. Power PDF also has tools for converting PDFs to commonly used formats like those for Excel, Word and PowerPoint, as well as converting these file types to PDF.
All these features and more are available for the Standard edition of Kofax Power PDF. The Advanced edition of Power PDFs includes all these features as well as tools for signing PDFS and sending signatures, redacting sensitive information, collaborating over a network to edit and create PDFs, and for automating the creation of PDF files.
Kofax Power Pdf Review
Pricing
Kofax's Power PDF Standard has both a Windows and Mac edition which costs $129 for a perpetual licence. Power PDF Advanced has a perpetual licence available for $179.
As Kofax advertises, this ends up being a significant savings over Adobe's pricing model for long term use. All versions of Power PDF offer a free trial that can be downloaded as well.
What users have to say about Kofax Power PDF
People have lots of good things to say about Kofax Power PDF, one of the most common being praising its user interface as intuitive and easy to use. This ease of use translates to getting work on PDFs done faster and better productivity.
Other positives cited include the options for converting files to PDF and for creating new PDFs. Some users also really liked the OCR features, saying they're among the best they've used; although others have found them a bit lacking compared to others like Adobe and Abbyy FineReader.
One user left a review saying that their company purchased licenses for download not realizing there was a limited amount of time to download them and were unable to get a response from customer support about it.
Software details
Kofax Power PDF is available on Windows systems in Standard and Advanced editions. Just the Standard edition is available for macOS systems with all the features of Windows Standard version and a few extra. There are not any mobile apps available.
Bottom line
While Kofax Power PDF doesn't particularly shine above the competition, it is robust PDF software that comes with many great features at a reasonable price.
Our score: ★★★★☆ 4/5
Power PDF provides three ways to modify PDF documents:
Edit from Power PDF in Review mode, the normal mode for the program. See Edit from Power PDF in Review mode for details.
Edit from Power PDF in Advanced Edit mode, which is accessible from the Edit menu. See Edit from Power PDF in Advanced Edit mode for details.
Export to a program such as Word or Excel, make edits and then recreate a PDF. See Export to Word or Excel and recreate a modified PDF for detailed steps.
Edit from Power PDF in Review mode
Use Review mode for any of the following modifications:
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Add Comments: notes, text boxes, drawings, stamps, clip art, watermarks and more.
Add text using the Typewriter tool so it becomes a part of the PDF content.
Modify objects or images within the PDF content using the Edit Object Tool.
Open source video editor windows. Modify text within the PDF content using the Edit Text Tool.
Add, remove or replace whole pages using Document Assembly.
Add and modify Bookmarks and create a Table of Contents (TOC) from them.
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Add and work with comments from the Comment tab and the Comments Panel.
Access the Typewriter and Edit Object tools in the Edit tab.
Perform Document Assembly from the Home tab.
Add and modify Bookmarks and TOCs from the Bookmarks panel.
