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PDF Studio is affordable and powerful PDF Editor for Windows, Mac, Linux. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 59 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Apryse - **Location**: Penticton, Canada - **Founded**: 1996 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$99.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: PDF Studio Standard: $99 one-time fee PDF Studio Pro: $139 one-time fee A single-user license includes 2 computers. Volume discounts, academia discounts, and non-profit discounts are available. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Canada, South Africa, United States ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Annotations - Collaboration Tools - Convert to PDF - Delete Pages - Digital Signature Software - Document Storage - Electronic Signature - Forms Management - Full Text Search - Merge/Append Files - Optical Character Recognition - Text Editing - Watermarking ## Integrations (4 total) - Docusign - Dropbox Business - Google Drive - OneDrive ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software ## Category - [PDF Editor Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/32779/pdf-editor/software) ## Related Categories - [PDF Editor Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/32779/pdf-editor/software) - [OCR Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31459/ocr/software) - [PDF Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31122/pdf/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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However, the OCR tool did not always recognize the text. > > PDF Studio has a user-friendly design and is the finest alternative to Adobe Acrobat. It is quick, simple to use, and has a nice user interface. ----- ### "PDF Studio 2019- solid choice for Linux users, researchers, who want a cross-platform solution." — 5.0/5 > **Ray** | *August 7, 2020* | Research | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is truly cross-platform- I used it on my Linux, Windows, and Apple systems without any problem. Its one of the few PDF editors for Linux. It's easy to use- the menu is well designed and its much easier to find the tools I need than Adobe Acrobat with its convoluted odd menu system. It has reliable OCR built into the software and good tools for optimizing PDFs (reducing size) and for saving as image files (jpeg, png, tiff, etc). > > **Cons**: It cannot open dynamic XFA forms, but considering that most non-Adobe PDF editors can't read them, its not unusual. Dynamic XFA forms are uncommon PDF forms render drawing and layout information. Even Adobe products don't properly support them. Unfortunately, our office used these forms regularly. > > PDF Studio is reliable tool for annotating PDFs. It is fast, easy to use, has a good UI that allows users to switch between the tradition menu bar and a ribbon bar. I use it daily for reducing the size of PDFs and converting them to png image formats for distribution. ----- ### "Does not work on Mac Studio M1 Pro" — 3.0/5 > **Kev** | *August 2, 2023* | Environmental Services | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: Great feature set. Adn ability to use scaled drawings and measurements > > **Cons**: Back in 2012 (PDF Studio 12) it was fully reliable, but the recent iterations (2022 and 2023) do not work on Mac Studio M1 Max computer. Simple copy / paste errors, can't delete some annotations, print to JPG often misses some annotations, so exported jpg's are incomplete, can't re-order objects (send to back or bring to front does not work) > > I used it daily for years and then upon upgrading last year it continually disappoints. Since I had used it for a long time and spent a lot of time and effort with customer support to try and get the 2022 version running properly, I figured that the 2023 offering would have fixed all the issues that I had highlighted to the Quoppa people, but no, it's exactly the same. ----- ### "Finally a PDF editor that is fast and smooth even on huge architectural drawing." — 5.0/5 > **Robert** | *December 27, 2023* | Consumer Electronics | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Love the interface and ease of finding the tools. > > **Cons**: App does not respect my Logi Options mouse settings. Zooms to fast with mouse wheel. > > Fantastic. Because of the tab tool bar interface, I can find tools I did not know existed and try them and because of the tap tool bar, it is not overly cluttered. ----- ### "One of the best pdf editors for Linux" — 5.0/5 > **Nikolaos** | *July 9, 2021* | Market Research Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: PDF Studio enables editing in Mac and most importantly Linux OS. It is much cheaper that Adobe Acrobat and has quality signing options. It has optical character recognition features even for non OCR documents. > > **Cons**: I have never encountered any serious problems with PDF Studio and never wanted to do something that this editor couldn't do. In my opinion, what could be done differently is reduce the RAM and CPU consumption of this software. > > In my company we need to use the same tools over different operating systems for security purposes and also for a universal approach to the solutions we provide. However, we have user machines running in windows and remote servers running Linux. As far as I know this is the best PDF solutions that runs smoothly across different OS platforms. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/101108/pdf-studio?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/101108/pdf-studio) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data