Compare the Top PDF Software for Windows as of September 2026 - Page 2

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    PDF Architect
    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.
    Starting Price: €109.00 per year
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    Nitro PDF

    Nitro PDF

    Nitro Software

    Nitro PDF is a full-featured PDF editor and is recognized as the strongest alternative to Adobe Acrobat. It's simple to purchase, easy to implement, and straightforward to use. With a powerful suite of tools, you can easily edit, convert, sign, annotate, combine, secure, and protect your documents, streamlining workflows and allowing you to focus on what matters. Our flexible plans and affordable pricing cater to everyone, from individual users and small teams to large enterprises. Plus, we offer a wide range of support resources to ensure the success of every customer.
    Starting Price: $15/user/month
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    PDF Pro 10

    PDF Pro 10

    PDF Pro Software Inc.

    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.
    Starting Price: $49.95
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    Smallpdf

    Smallpdf

    Smallpdf

    Made in Switzerland, the land of watches, banks, and clean design, Smallpdf is an award-winning company that offers a suite of clever document management tools for everyone—for work, for home, for life. Founded in 2013, Smallpdf provides a simple, secure, and reliable answer to heavy, awkward PDF software. By removing unnecessary features and adding a deep focus on user experience, Smallpdf has become the most-loved and most-trusted PDF software on the planet, serving over 500 million users, 100,000 different companies, in 24 different languages, and in every country in the world—even Antarctica! Smallpdf integrates seamlessly with professional and personal tasks, boosting productivity and simplifying the way people manage their documents, with tools to compress, convert, edit, sign, protect, and unlock PDF documents in just a few easy steps.
    Starting Price: $7/month/user
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    PDF Reader Pro

    PDF Reader Pro

    PDF Technologies, Inc

    Back to School Bonanza! Enjoy 50% OFF on PDF Reader Pro and Filmage Screen Buy PC Version, Get Mobile Version Free Aug.15. 2024 - Sept.5. 2024 PDF Reader Pro is powered by PDF Technologies®, founded in 2014, which is a leading software provider of affordable, secure Out-of-Box PDF solutions on Windows, Mac, iOS, & Android. SMBs, IT service, and knowledge workers increase their productivity by using PDF Reader Pro to make workflow smarter. As the best alternative to Adobe® PDF solution, PDF Reader Pro is a PDF powerhouse that will fulfill all your document needs. We offer free Trial and education plans, as well as PDF Technologies’ Software Development Kits (ComPDFkit/SDKs) to help developers reduce costs and improve productivity by integrating industry-leading PDF technologies into application workflows. Welcome to try. If you are interested in being our reseller or distributor, you can check our official site->Business->Partnership Program.
    Starting Price: $19.99/one-time/user
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    UPDF

    UPDF

    Superace Software Technology Co., Ltd.

    UPDF supports editing, annotating, and managing PDF seamlessly on for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. You can get every tool you need to edit, annotate, and organize your PDF files in one premiere all-rounder smart application. It is explicitly designed to meet the desire of most users for a stunning yet very comprehensible interface that is not just only for beginners. Key Features: 1. Edit PDF Document - You can add or delete texts as well as edit the text's properties and formats such as its font style, font color, and size. - You can also crop, rotate, replace, extract or delete images. 2. Annotate PDF - Easily highlight, underline, and strike out those parts. You can also add shapes, sticky notes and text boxes for a quicker and easier means of adding texts. 3. PDF Page Management - Rotate, delete, extract and rearrange PDF pages as you need. 4. View and Navigate PDF Files - Flexible reading mode such as single page mode or double-page mode.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Sumatra PDF

    Sumatra PDF

    SumatraPDF

    Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority. PDF readers have, over the years, managed to earn themselves something of a reputation for being slow, lumbering beasts - thanks largely to Adobe Reader. Sumatra PDF bucks the trend. It is small, svelte, lightweight and lightning fast.
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    Cisdem PDFMaster
    Cisdem PDFMaster is an all-in-one PDF solution which provides powerful tools for editing, annotating, filling forms, converting, creating, merging, splitting, compressing, and encrypting PDFs. Users can edit text and images in PDFs as easily as in Word. The software also integrates AI features for summarizing content, translating PDFs, ensuring grammar and spelling accuracy, and rewriting text to improve clarity and coherence. It streamlines document management with an intuitive interface and advanced functionality, making it an ideal choice for PDF tasks.
    Starting Price: $49.99 Annual Plan
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    PDFsam Basic

    PDFsam Basic

    Sober Lemur

    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.
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    MuPDF

    MuPDF

    Artifex Software

    Add powerful PDF functionality to all of your software application projects. MuPDF is a highly versatile, customizable PDF SDK that can be used as a PDF renderer, viewer, or library. The tiny footprint and lightning-fast performance make MuPDF a perfect fit for mobile browsers, eBooks, and embedded applications where small size is key. MuPDF supports a variety of interactive features including annotations, form filling, digital signatures, redactions, text search, and progressive loading. The wide range of input and output formats and our full range of platform support deliver a flexible solution to easily and successfully fulfill your project’s unique needs. MuPDF supports PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, EPUB, FictionBook 2 and CBZ. The MuPDF API easily integrates with all of the major platforms including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows. C++ and Python bindings have been added making it easy to use the MuPDF library from these languages.
    Starting Price: $749/per platform*
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    eXpert PDF

    eXpert PDF

    Avanquest Software

    The ultimate tool for converting, creating and customizing your PDF files. Create PDF files from your Office applications on your PC – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc. Convert your PDF files into the Word format. Protect your PDF files and send or share them safely. Gain access to collaborative tools and revisions. Easily highlight, strikethrough, underline.
    Starting Price: $89.99
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    Able2Extract Professional
    Convert, create, edit, OCR, compare, and sign PDFs. Customize the interface language and its appearance from light to dark themes for working with PDFs comfortably. Tailor your conversions by selecting a page, a paragraph, or even a single line for conversion. Custom PDF to Excel conversion to convert complex PDF table data to Microsoft Excel with pinpoint precision and a Smart Layout Detector for keeping table styles intact. Edit PDF text and pages. Annotate and redact PDF content. Sign PDF documents. Fill, edit and create PDF forms. Split documents into even parts. Convert scanned PDFs in English, French, Spanish, and German. Automate the batch PDF conversion process by queuing up a large volume of PDF files and even whole directories. Batch create PDF from a wide range of formats and merge all PDFs into one file. Create secure PDFs from blank pages or existing documents by adding passwords and file permissions. Able2Extract Professional: Your Swiss Army Knife for PDF files.
    Starting Price: $149.95/one-time/user
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    FlexiPDF

    FlexiPDF

    SoftMaker

    Editing PDFs has never been so easy. Edit PDFs as easily as with a word processor. Have you ever wanted to edit the text of a PDF? Insert or replace images in a PDF file? Convert scanned pages to editable documents? With FlexiPDF, you can! Creating, editing and commenting in PDF files is just as quick and easy as exporting them for further editing in TextMaker or Microsoft Word. The FlexiPDF printer driver creates high-quality PDF files from inside any Windows program. In FlexiPDF Professional, built-in automatic character recognition (OCR) converts pages from the scanner to editable and searchable PDFs. FlexiPDF is an indispensable tool for anyone who works with PDFs.
    Starting Price: $2.99 per month
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    ShinePDF

    ShinePDF

    ShinePDF

    ShinePDF was built with you in mind. Say goodbye to complicated software & hello to easy-to-use PDF tools. Autofill, merge, split, convert, compress, secure your documents in just a few clicks. 1) Convert PDF documents to Excel, Word, HTML, Text and Image. 2) Easily convert Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, Html, Text and Image files into PDF documents. 3) Split documents. Remove, extract or organize PDF pages as you need. 4) Merge and Encrypt PDF files with a password to prevent unauthorized access to the file content. 5) Automatically fill PDF forms from Excel. 6) Reduce the size of your normal and scanned PDF while maintaining its original quality and formatting.
    Starting Price: $15
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    Tungsten Power PDF

    Tungsten Power PDF

    Tungsten Automation

    Tungsten Power PDF provides everything you need to create, convert, edit, share and e-sign PDF files. Tungsten Power PDF is an award-winning PDF editor designed to be easy to use, secure, and low cost. Enjoy a familiar, Office-style interface that gets you creating, converting and compiling your PDF documents in just minutes. With advanced functionality, powerful security, and redaction capabilities, Power PDF is built for individuals and businesses of all sizes. Office-style interface optimized for Windows 10 desktop and Microsoft Surface, as well as Mac OS Big Sur. Create, edit and convert PDF files to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, HTML and more. Buy once and own forever for all the features you need. Add secure encrypted passwords and permissions, as well as redact sensitive info and private metadata.
    Starting Price: $179 one-time fee
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF
    FineReader is an all-in-one OCR and PDF software application designed to increase business productivity. It provides easy-to-use tools to access and modify information locked in paper-based documents and PDFs. ABBYY FineReader PDF 16 for Windows Digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Edit digital and scanned PDFs with a newfound ease: correct whole sentences and paragraphs or even adjust the layout. Incorporate paper documents into a digital workplace with AI-based OCR technology to simplify daily work. ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mac® Manage your documents more easily and perform all document tasks quicker in digital workflows. Convert PDFs, document images, and scans with unmatched accuracy Achieve new levels of productivity when converting documents with the latest OCR technology and view and reuse content from PDFs of any kind with ease.
    Starting Price: $16 monthly
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    iLovePDF

    iLovePDF

    iLovePDF

    Every tool you need to work with PDFs in one place. Every tool you need to use PDFs, at your fingertips. All are 100% FREE and easy to use! Merge, split, compress, convert, rotate, unlock and watermark PDFs with just a few clicks. Combine PDFs in the order you want with the easiest PDF merger available. Separate one page or a whole set for easy conversion into independent PDF files. Reduce file size while optimizing for maximal PDF quality. Convert your PDF to WORD documents with incredible accuracy. Convert your PDFs to POWERPOINT. Sign and certificate PDF documents. Request for digital signatures or sign your own documents.
    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    Kenesto

    Kenesto

    Kenesto Corporation

    Kenesto is a cloud-based storage solution for managing engineering, design, and construction documents. Kenesto is much less expensive than enterprise PDM solutions but provides automatic file locking, versioning, vaulting, 2D/3D viewing, and web-based design review tools not found in consumer-grade cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive. The solution behaves like a mounted disk in the customer's office but the with a single source of truth in the cloud. File locking prevents users from overwriting each other's data. All versions of all files are stored in perpetuity. Using the familiar user interface of Windows Explorer, files and folders are arranged in the same way as one would expect for a C Drive. Kenesto includes tasks and workflows. A plugin for SolidWorks is available for no charge. All file transfers from the user’s local computer to the cloud are encrypted. All files are stored in secure AWS S3 and are encrypted.
    Starting Price: $27/user/month (single user)
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    PDF Agile

    PDF Agile

    DocuAgile

    PDF Agile is a full-featured PDF editor and converter with a powerful full-text OCR engine. Key features: Edit PDF: Update PDF documents by modifying text, font, font size, line spacing, layout, pages, and columns, and add multimedia. Convert from/to PDF: Convert PDF from and to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT, JPG, PNG, and DWG without losing its format. Organize PDF: Organize and manipulate PDF pages to support your workflows. Merge and split documents; drag and drop pages within a file or from one document to another; and add stamps, watermarks, headers, footers, and more. OCR: Extract text from any image with the robust full-text Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature and it can recognize 22 languages. Read: Three different modes for all scenarios. Switch between Read Mode, Full-Screen Mode, and Slideshow with just the touch of the button.
    Starting Price: $4.92/month
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    PDFgear

    PDFgear

    PDFgear

    PDFgear is an all-in-one PDF solution that helps users view, edit, protect, convert, sign, annotate, organize, OCR, Copilot, organize PDF files, and make more possibilities on Windows, MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS. PDFgear offers all expected functions in its clean and straightforward interface so users could enjoy their document reading and editing experience without disturbance. PDFgear Copilot provides more possibilities as a personal document assistant. As it's powered by AI, users could easily manipulate all PDFgear functions and chat with PDFs by asking PDFgear Copilot. Get lost in various functions and comprehensive document content? Don't worry! Just ask Copilot! It will cover everything. With PDFgear and Copilot in it, processing PDF is like a walk in the garden.
    Starting Price: Free
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    WinZip PDF Pro
    WinZip has gone beyond zipping to make PDFs easy. - Read, Edit, Collaborate, Convert, Secure PDFs and more with WinZip PDF Pro - Read and review any type of PDF file - Convert files from and to PDF - Merge multiple files into one PDF - Edit, add, delete, extract, and organize PDF pages - Comment directly within PDFs ...and so much more! We designed WinZip PDF Pro from the ground up to be easy and straightforward. Cover all your PDF needs at work and home in a few easy clicks. It's simple, powerful, and affordable. WinZip PDF Pro can be used as a 100% Free PDF Reader to view PDFs or have its PRO features unlocked to truly meet your PDF editing and management needs. Your 7-day trial of WinZip PDF Pro starts as soon as you install the program on your device. You won't be asked for your email or credit card, and there's no registration. Whether you just want to view PDFs or professionally create and manage PDFs, we’ve got your back.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Email to PDF for Outlook
    AssistMyTeam business apps are build on top of your Microsoft Software such as Office, Exchange and SharePoint. AssistMyTeam Outlook add-ins are designed to be team centric and out-of-the-box solutions and overcome many shortcomings in Microsoft Outlook. Today, AssistMyTeam is helping organizations and businesses become more information-driven, even more dynamic. Detach attachments from emails to a global file folder, or optionally, choose a folder at run-time. Automatically detach or delete attachments from the copy of emails present in the Sent Items folder. Keep the size of your mailbox on the server well within the allowed limit.
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    SanPDF Converter

    SanPDF Converter

    Sanshangyun Technology Co., Ltd

    SanPDF is developed by the team of Sanshangyun Technology Co., Ltd, and supports various document formats such as PDF and e-book. It also provides the ability to convert between PDF and office documents. We are committed to creating convenient and intelligent products for Internet users. We hope to develop application software for your life and office through technical innovation and humanized design concept. We desire to help you improve your work efficiency, bring more convenience to your life and make your life rich and colorful. SanPDF supports multiple file formats such as PDF, XPS, DjVu, CHM, Mobi, EPUB e-books and comic books. SanPDF could help you to realize PDF file conversion such as PDF to Word(.doc, .docx), PDF to Excel(.xls, .xlsx), PDF to PPT(.ppt, .pptx), Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PPT to PDF, and PDF to JPEG, PNG, BMP image, split or merge PDF.
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    KDAN PDF

    KDAN PDF

    Kdan Mobile Software

    KDAN PDF is a high-performance document intelligence solution designed for professionals who require robust editing and analysis tools across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. It functions as a comprehensive PDF engine that streamlines the document lifecycle through advanced AI integration. Users can leverage the built-in AI assistant to summarize long reports and extract structured data from complex files instantly. The software excels in high-accuracy OCR, supporting over 50 languages to transform scanned images into searchable text. Key metrics of KDAN PDF include its optimized app launch speeds and powerful offline processing capabilities, allowing for secure text editing, file conversion, and page management without an internet connection. With features like Bates numbering, secure redaction, and multi-format conversion (Office, HTML, ePub), KDAN PDF provides a flexible and efficient environment for managing professional digital archives on any device.
    Starting Price: $59.99/year (billed annually)
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    ByteScout PDF Suite
    Fast to market engine to setup reading of unstructured PDF, images, scanned documents using powerful and easy to use extraction templates editor. Create templates in a visual editor with no programming or coding required. Supports fields, tables, pdf forms, multi-paged tables, unstructured tables. Use OCR engine with multi-language OCR support, re-use built-in AI-powered templates. Extract text, tables, images, attachments and other data from PDF, Reads Tables to CSV, Gets text from Images, Extracts Attachments, supports OCR with one or more languages. Handle noisy images and damaged texts transparently with the built-in OCR filters. Convert to common data structures like TXT, JSON, XLS, XLSX, CSV or XML. AI powered tables and document analysis functions.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per year
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    Doxillion

    Doxillion

    NCH Software

    Doxillion is a document converter to convert pdf, docx, doc, rtf, html, xml, odt, wpd and txt document file formats. Convert documents one at a time or batch convert many files at once. Even integrate Doxillion conversion option to your right click menu to quickly convert documents to many frequently used formats.
    Starting Price: $19.99/one-time/user
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    Drawboard Projects
    Collaborative design review software with all markups, live synced, tracked and coordinated. Your team's new live and intuitive workspace for drawing and document review. Drawboard Projects (formerly Bullclip) is the only collaborative workspace where you and your team can mark up, discuss and track changes across PDF drawings and documents. Refined by architects and engineers, made for any team. - In Drawboard Projects, all internal contributors and those with limited-access guests mark up the same drawings or documents. - Drawboard Projects instantly syncs all markups and communication on every revision, speeding up your process and giving you your coordination time back. - Pin issues to particular places on drawings and assign responsibility for closeout to team members. - Keep discussion right on the drawing so that anyone can see full context of decisions that were made. -Organization management with an easy-to-use Admin Portal for better governance.
    Starting Price: $19 per user per month
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    PDFelement

    PDFelement

    Wondershare

    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. Support service: Knowledgeable representatives available through instant live chat and email response within 24 hours. Money-back guarantee: A 30-day money-back guarantee. Top Features: AI tools, esign, edit, convert, scan&OCR, create, organize, share&protect, build&fill forms, annotate.
    Starting Price: $79.99USD/year/user
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    novaPDF

    novaPDF

    Softland

    Using novaPDF Pro you can easily create high quality searchable PDF files in an affordable and reliable way from any Windows application. It installs as a printer driver and helps you generate the PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (you can convert Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, AutoCad drawings, emails or web pages). You can password protect the PDF files you create and permissions can be restricted to prevent the document from being viewed, printed, modified, copied or annotated. Your PDF files will be secured with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption algorithms. Features include: customizable resolution, PDF security, PDF links, PDF bookmarks, text/image compression, profiles and more. novaPDF also includes a PDF SDK for developers that want to integrate PDF creation capabilities in their software.
    Starting Price: $19.99 (one time payment)
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    ABCpdf .NET

    ABCpdf .NET

    WebSupergoo Software

    Use ABCpdf to create Adobe PDF documents on the fly. You won’t believe how simple - yet powerful - it is. A truly remarkable best-of-class PDF component. With features ranging from simple PDF construction to complex multi-color space, spot rendering, ABCpdf provides more than you could ever need yet still remains easy to understand and use. ABCpdf .NET is a .NET Native product encapsulated in an easy-to-deploy set of DLLs. It also offers a virtualized COM interface designed for backwards compatibility with ABCpdf ASP and Classic ASP/COM. ABCpdf .NET - A C# PDF LIBRARY OF TRUE AWESOMENESS. The ABCpdf .NET C# PDF library is a .NET component for the dynamic reading, writing, conversion and manipulation of Adobe PDF documents. Supporting a vast range of image and document formats and featuring three different HTML to PDF conversion engines. ABCpdf gets up close and personal! Because it doesn’t use any print drivers and goes Direct to PDF™ it’s incredibly fast.
    Starting Price: $329 per year