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PDFelement

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What Is PDFelement?

PDFelement is a one-stop PDF solution powered by AI. Fast, smart, affordable, and easy way to manage (.pdf) documents across desktop, mobile, and web.

It provides a great user experience and is an excellent alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, making it perfect for individuals and small businesses. The mission is to stay at the forefront of PDF technology, constantly innovating and improving our product to meet the evolving needs of our users.

Who Uses PDFelement?

Education Information Technology and Services Real Estate Human Resources Legal Services Government Administration Financial Services Banking Accounting Construction Consumer Services

PDFelement Software - AI-powered support for chatting with PDFs/summaring/proofreading/rewriting/explaining/translating the PDF file content.
PDFelement Software - Edit PDF text, images, forms, pages, and more.
PDFelement Software - Convert files to and from PDF format in high quality.
PDFelement Software - Recognize text from scanned PDFs and images.
PDFelement Software - Utilize certificate-based legal signatures, send documents to bulk signers effortlessly, and collect and track signatures from anywhere, on any device.

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Reviews of PDFelement

Average score

Overall
4.4
Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.1
Features
4.3
Value for Money
4.3

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Asebi
Asebi
Communications Coordinator in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Mining & Metals, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Worth the Value!

5.0 last year

Pros:

The product is easy to use with a clean and intuitive interface. The editing capabilities are a breeze to use compared to other more expensive PDF software on the market. I like the form creating and editing capabilities as well. The accompanying mobile apps make it versatile and easily accessible on multiple devices

Cons:

Sometimes, there are performance issues, especially when dealing with large files. Lacks some advance PDF functions seen in Adobe Acrobat Pro

Abhinav
Abhinav
Graphics Expert in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Broadcast Media, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

PDFelement: A wonderful app by Wondershare Team

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Overall it’s a great co-office tool, and can be the part for your essential bucket of day to day Softwares

Pros:

Because it is open source and available for both iOS and Windows backed with wide range of tools, I found PDFelement is a perfect companion

Cons:

It became slow over the period of time , and cropping the elements is little difficult to adopt. Though it’s my personal view and many users may like it the way it is . You are requested to check before invest

Harry
Owner in US
Management Consulting, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

PDFelement 6 has issues

2.0 6 years ago

Comments: I work with PDF documents every day. I don't use a lot of the advanced features, but when I do need them, I want them to work flawlessly, intuitively and efficiently. PDF Element 6 does NOT meet those requirements.

Pros:

The cost was reasonable since I purchased it on sale. It allows up to 15 tabs to be open at one time and allows multiple instances of the program to run simultaneously.

Cons:

1. It doesn't retain pinned documents. After a while, they become unpinned. Tech support is of no help. They say they can't duplicate the issue and just STOPPED helping me. Now, they ignore my service tickets for help. 2. It doesn't show all the open "tabbed" documents. They tend to disappear and then reappear. 3. Conversion from PDF to a document if very poor, especially to Word. The documents are unusable. A client used their program (Nitro Pro) for me and it was perfect. It's embarrassing when my client has to do a task that they are paying me to do. 4. Creating and using a "stamp" for a signature if very difficult and doesn't work well. 5. Converting a PDF to a form doesn't work well. It takes a lot of work (an hour or longer) to get it usable. 6. Every time the program is upgraded/updated it wipes out the setting for the default PDF program in Windows 10 (latest build) 7. The vertical scroll bar is very small and difficult to "grab" with my cursor. It would be easier to use if it was wider, or at least expanded when the cursor was close to it. 8. The program can run multiple instances, but still limits the total number of documents to 15. 9. I have a lot of issues trying to edit a PDF. It creates blocks of information instead of allowing free-form data entry/manipulation. 10. In PAGE mode, the images of the pages are so small that it's difficult to find the page I'm looking for. There isn't a zoom function so I spend too much time switching back and forth.

Anthony
Anthony
Attorney in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Law Practice, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Decent value, but there are limits to functionality

4.0 last year

Comments: It was ok, for the money spent it was a decent piece of software but complicated to get used to and ultimately I had to move on.

Pros:

It was inexpensive, and you can find a deal readily available on the internet.

Cons:

Confusing to use and not very user friendly. But mainly the renewals and cost to continue using was super confusing to stay on top of. It felt like every month they were emailing me to upgrade at a higher cost.

Zaid
Accountant in Jordan
Construction, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The smoothest PDF editor

4.0 last year

Pros:

I love PDFelement it is the best PDF editor software, and I like that it does not consume device resources. Also, PDFelement contains all PDF editing tools.

Cons:

The OCR tool of this software PDFelement is somehow bad and do not give accurate results and do not support a lot of languages.