PDF-Tools for Windows

Product summary

PDF-Tools is a straightforward, multi-purpose PDF utility designed to add more flexibility to how you create and manage PDF files. It is not as feature-rich as heavyweight suites like Adobe Acrobat or Foxit, but it covers most routine PDF tasks without unnecessary complexity.

Suggested free alternatives

• PDF Tools (Free)
• PDFill (Free)

Main capabilities

PDF-Tools supports a variety of common PDF tasks, for example:

• Extracting images and individual pages from existing PDFs
• Splitting and joining documents
• Converting PDFs to plain text (basic OCR/text extraction)
• Turning images and text files into new PDF documents

Interface and customization

The program uses step-by-step wizards for each operation, guiding you through every action from start to finish, which keeps the learning curve low. There are also configuration options tailored to the chosen task — typical settings include document security, watermarking, and compression controls.

When this is a good choice

If the collection of tools offered matches your workflow, PDF-Tools is a practical, no-frills solution: functional, efficient, and easy to use. If you require advanced editorial or enterprise features, a larger commercial PDF suite may be more appropriate.

Recent fixes and improvements

• Fixed issue where document metadata could not be specified correctly in some scenarios (ID 8945).
• Adjusted handling of system folders (My Documents, Temp, etc.) so they are now stored as unresolved paths (ID 9259).
• Corrected a rare problem that could occur when converting certain Type1 characters to CFF (T#915).
• Resolved problems with simultaneous printing to the PDF‑XChange printer from multiple threads, and fixed saving of the "Reason"/"Location" fields in the Digital Signing dialog (ID 10354).