PDF Architect

PDF Architect

pdfforge
PDF Pro 10

PDF Pro 10

PDF Pro Software Inc.
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About

PDF Architect is a Windows-based PDF editor and document processing solution that supports the entire PDF lifecycle, including creation, text editing, file conversion, page management, OCR, form handling, security, and e-signatures. Designed for business environments, it offers an Admin Portal for centralized license and user management and integrates directly with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. For business and enterprise environments, PDF Architect offers centralized license management via an Admin Portal, where IT or operations teams can allocate seats, manage users, and control feature access across departments. It integrates with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), so employees can generate and edit PDFs from tools they already use daily. The solution scales from single-user workstations to multi-user rollouts, supported by volume licensing from about 10 seats upward.

About

PDF Pro is the easy to use alternative to Adobe Acrobat, allowing you to view, create, edit, secure, revise, or collaborate on a PDF document. PDF Pro's intuitive interface makes it easy to take advantage of the full versatility of any Portable Document Format file! The trial version of PDF Pro 10 adds a watermark to documents saved while using PDF Pro 10. The trial will work for 15. You must purchase a license in order to activate the full version of PDF Pro 10. Sold in over 90 countries, PDF Pro 10 is trusted by small and large businesses alike around the world to handle their PDF document management needs. PDF Pro 10 is available in 5 languages, and volume discounts are available.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

IT teams, system administrators, and business departments evaluating PDF software for team or enterprise deployment on Windows.

Audience

SmBs, people looking to work with PDF files

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

€109.00 per year
PDF Architect is available in three plans to match your team's needs.

PDF Architect Free covers core PDF viewing and creation, including basic page management, at no cost. Users who need more can purchase a higher tier, which installs and runs alongside it.

PDF Architect Professional is built for business use, adding full editing, conversion, document security, review and commenting, fillable forms, OCR, and 50 eSignatures per year. €109 per user per year, with volume discounts from 10 licenses.

PDF Architect Business includes everything in Professional plus unlimited eSignatures per year, suited for teams with high-volume signing workflows. €169 per user per year, with volume discounts from 10 licenses.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$49.95
Perpetual license, with 1 year maintenance
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 3.7 / 5
ease 3.9 / 5
features 3.9 / 5
design 3.9 / 5
support 3.9 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 3.4 / 5
ease 3.6 / 5
features 3.6 / 5
design 3.4 / 5
support 3.6 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • With Acrobat I always felt like I was fighting with it for control of how I use it, finding what I want. Acrobat tries to steer me all the time to what it thinks I want to do, and then pay more for some extra thing I want to do. With PDF Architect everything is exactly where I would expect it to be on the screen, but most importantly I feel I am in total control of which tools I use and how I use them. It is so well designed! I especially love the easy to use mark up tools, completely flexible and intuitive. Additionally I had a need for help with renewing to a different level, and I got very prompt and totally customer centered help. Support has been great.
  • Prior to using this program I had used others on the market, I find this program is good and user friendly also the support is very good.
  • In general the program works fine and it is a user friendly program. It has extensive options. You can extend it with modules such as secure and sign, which now also has new features.
  • I use PDF Architect to add fields to my pdf's, so people can fill them in and send them back. And I can let people add there signature.
  • I like to work with program, the functions it has. It's easy to use and it works what I need.

Cons

  • Sorry, can't think of any. There have been occasional small bugs but they seem to be taken care of pretty quickly as they disappear in the next version.
  • Nothing negative to add. I find this program has a lot to offer if your are an extensive user.
  • Every year some functionalities suddenly become unavailable. Then we need to contact support to resolve the issue. This happens too often and not at the time of a contract extension.
  • I'm hoping for an upgrade that the program would detect a table and changes it into a form automatically in 1 action. Now I have to add each field by myself and that takes quite some time.
  • Well, the changes in licesing models always bring us - the users problems Everytime it happened. The support was impossible to find on the website. If I hadn't have previous e-mails i'd be stuck.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The use interphase is quite similar to that of Adobe Acrobat. Thus, it is quite easy to make the switch from Adobe. While Adobe has switched to annual subscriptions, a format despised by a majority of users, PDF Pro was reasonably priced and available in a perpetual license format.
  • My software was purchased many years ago but continues to perform flawlessly - wouldn't change it if they paid me!
  • The Help Desk is one of the best over all the years I've used them. Always helpful solving my problems.
  • There is no advantage to this software. The only thing it doesn’t without a fuss is to merge several PDF at once. But even then…
  • I can't say anything good about the software. I purchased the software, I haven't used it in quite some time, but now that I want to use it they do not support it any longer. Keep pestering me to upgrade and pay more but I don't need an upgrade, I only need to use what I got in the first place.

Cons

  • Current PDF Pro is much pricier (perpetual format) than the previous versions, and the company is pushing monthly and annual plans.
  • Can't think of anything I'm not happy with and would change
  • Nothing comes to mind, they always respond quickly.
  • To divide a PDF into several pages, you have to break it down manually! Impossible to modify without breaking your entire layout. When you save the merge PDF, it decide to save it according to the wind! Could be here or there.. so you end up with files everywhere. Even though you specified were you wanted them to be. I ask customer service to contact me, thinking there might be ways, that aI just don’t know about… nothing !! NO SUPPORT
  • They wouldn't support me after buying their software.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

pdfforge
Founded: 2009
Germany
www.pdfforge.org/pdfarchitect/business

Company Information

PDF Pro Software Inc.
Founded: 2017
Canada
pdfpro10.com

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Categories

Categories

PDF Features

Annotations
Convert to PDF
Digital Signature
Encryption
Merge / Append
PDF Reader
Watermarking

PDF Editors Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Annotations
Commenting / Notes
Compare Side-by-Side
Customizable Branding
Delete Pages
Electronic Signature
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Merge / Append
Offline Access
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Rearrange Pages
Rotate Pages
Watermarking

PDF Features

Annotations
Convert to PDF
Digital Signature
Encryption
Merge / Append
PDF Reader
Watermarking

PDF Editors Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Annotations
Commenting / Notes
Compare Side-by-Side
Customizable Branding
Delete Pages
Electronic Signature
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Merge / Append
Offline Access
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Rearrange Pages
Rotate Pages
Watermarking

Integrations

Dropbox
Evernote
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneNote

Integrations

Dropbox
Evernote
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneNote
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