PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic

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About

PDFsam Enhanced is our commercial solution, a powerful and professional PDF editor to modify, convert, review, sign, fill forms and secure your PDF files. Your PDF files stay private on your computer, no need to upload them to a third-party service. PDFsam Basic is a free and open-source solution for casual users. Split, merge, mix, extract pages and rotate PDF files. PDFsam Enhanced and PDFsam Visual are two commercial solutions for professional users. Edit, sign, convert, fill forms, visually combine, pages reorder and more. Merge, split, extract pages, rotate and mix your PDF files. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Free and open-source since 2006. A professional and customizable solution to edit, convert, insert, review, sign and secure your PDF files. Free to view and create PDFs from 300+ file formats. Modify the PDF content without the need to export it or copy to another format.

About

PDFsam Enhanced is our PDF editor. A complete PDF solution to convert, review, fill forms, OCR, sign, secure and edit PDF files. Try the free view and create modules to read any PDF file and create PDF from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many other file formats. View PDF files with our free PDF reader. Open and view any PDF, ePub, or comic book (.cbr/.cbz) file, view in single, continuous, or fullscreen mode, navigate bookmarks, zoom in and out and rotate pages. Split PDF files into individual pages, delete or rotate pages, easily merge PDF files together or edit and modify PDF files. A free and open-source application, a powerful visual tool, or a professional PDF editor, join thousands of happy users, we have the solution you are looking for. Our professional and customizable PDF editor provides everything you need to edit, convert, insert, review, sign, and secure your PDF files.

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

A professional and customizable solution to edit, convert, insert, review, sign and secure PDF files

Audience

Users searching for a solution to convert, review, fill forms, OCR, sign, and edit 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

Free and open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$59 per year
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 3.4 / 5
ease 3.6 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 3.2 / 5
support 2.8 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 1.0 / 5
ease 1.0 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 3.0 / 5
support 1.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Can't think of a better tool for this simple purpose of merging. There's an equally useful looking splitter function that I haven't used for a long time.
  • PDFsam is okay to edit files as long as standards compliance is not a priority. The edit features work fine.
  • It's like any other PDF software on the market. You need to pay a premium for electronic signatures and editing of all things.
  • -Very intuitive interface -It's very quick and easy to split or merge PDFs -No ads on the free version, they don't push for premium
  • Free and open source. Merge PDF files together. Split PDF file or extract pages. Multi platform availability.

Cons

  • Worried it'll convert itself into a subscription based app.
  • It is impossible to print properly. As an example, duplex printing just does not work, and PDFsam manages to mess this somehow by taking control of the print driver even if the printer is hard-set to duplex printing. The only working solution I found is to use a different program to print the pdf after editing it with PDFsam.
  • Buying a license is an absolute nightmare. They claim the license is $19.99 lifetime and as soon as you pay it turns into a subscription of $100 a year, no refunds. They start to add additional services randomly, and charge you, No customer service, I had to get my bank to put a stop payment, I had selected a basic plan and they had tacked on additional plans without my approval.
  • There are honestly no cons for me, PDFSam does what it must. It would be great if the converter tool would also be free, but I understand they have to make money somehow with premium.
  • No editing or conversion feature - available in PDFsam enhanced which is paid.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Whilst the overall experience was rotten, this software allowed me to edit/combine the important PDF I needed at the time. I would never purchase it again and STRONGLY warn you beware of the EXTRA EXPENSIVE AUTO-RENEWAL which they will try to force you to keep even if you request cancellation within days.

Cons

  • I purchased this product for multiple devices with the extras (OCR etc)... It didn't do what I needed elegantly: The keyboard shortcut support is bad, it's quite slow (even on a powerful device) and the registration process is not convenient. You have to login each time you use it.. Worst of all - After the first few months, the product REFUSED my login. I am a former Information Security Specialist and use a password manager. I triple checked to ensure no user error. I got busy, and let it go... At the start of this year, they stung me over $150AU for the renewal. I immediately emailed them and requested: a) Cancellation and refund for this year b) Refund for the 9 months of the prior year (where I could not use the software) c) Access to the logs of usage They ignored all of that and simply told me I'd agreed to the renewal as part of the sign up. I am not disputing the transaction with my credit card provider and warning anyone to be careful of these guys! Please don't get bitten like I did.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Sober Lemur
Founded: 2018
Italy
pdfsam.org

Company Information

PDFsam
Founded: 2017
United States
pdfsam.org/pdfsam-enhanced/

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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

Integrations

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word

Integrations

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
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