Compare the Top PDF Software as of October 2026

What is PDF Software?

PDF software refers to a range of tools designed for working with PDF (Portable Document Format) files, which are widely used for document sharing and storage. These tools offer a variety of functions, such as creating, viewing, editing, converting, securing, and managing PDF files. PDF software can be used for tasks like merging or splitting documents, adding annotations, filling out forms, applying digital signatures, and securing documents with passwords or encryption. It is commonly utilized across industries for document collaboration, official documentation, and data exchange due to its universal compatibility and ability to maintain formatting across different platforms. Compare and read user reviews of the best PDF software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Apryse PDF SDK
    Apryse's PDF capabilities form the technical core of its product suite, a comprehensive, developer-embeddable PDF engine that handles viewing, editing, generation, conversion, and manipulation across web, mobile, and server environments. Rather than relying on a single monolithic PDF tool, Apryse gives developers granular, SDK-level control over every stage of the PDF lifecycle.
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    Nutrient SDK
    Nutrient is the comprehensive solution for all your PDF needs, offering tools that effortlessly integrate and operate PDF functionality across any platform. 1. SDK PRODUCTS Integrate robust PDF functionality into iOS, Android, Windows, web (JavaScript), or any cross-platform technology, providing capabilities such as PDF viewing, markup, collaboration, and more. 2. LIBRARIES Utilize our potent .NET and Java libraries to boost your backend applications with batch processing of redactions and PDF forms, OCR’d scanned text, and editing of PDF documents, directly from your application server. 3. PROCESSOR Our dynamic PDF microservice, Processor, enables swift generation of PDFs from HTML, including HTML forms, along with Office-to-PDF conversions, OCR, redaction, and XFDF merging and exporting. 4. PDF API Use hosted PDF API to generate, convert, and modify PDF documents in your workflows. We manage the development and server administration, letting you focus on what you do best.
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    Titan

    Titan

    Titan

    Build the forms, portals, documents, eSignatures, surveys, and workflows your business needs while keeping Salesforce at the center of it all. Titan brings these experiences into a single Salesforce-first platform, with data connected to Salesforce in real time rather than creating another place for it to live. Give customers, partners, and employees secure ways to interact with Salesforce. Collect and update information through dynamic forms, build branded portals, generate documents from Salesforce data, collect signatures, run surveys, and automate complex business processes. For forms and portals, Titan AI Studio gets you to a strong first version faster. Describe what you need in plain language and Titan creates the structure, fields, styling, and Salesforce mapping. Then refine the details in the visual builder. Titan AI understands your Salesforce data model, including objects, fields, and relationships, without accessing sensitive Salesforce record data. You get AI-assisted speed while staying in control of what gets built and how it works. Experience Studio and Document Studio bring these capabilities together, giving Salesforce teams one platform to build and manage customer-facing experiences, documents, and business processes.
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    Starting Price: $150 per month
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    SODA PDF

    SODA PDF

    Avanquest

    Soda PDF is the software solution that helps your business quickly achieve any document goal with ease. Edit, create, convert, merge, split, sign, or secure PDFs to your needs. Modify documents using the best PDF editor and PDF converter. Our easy-to-use PDF tools are made to streamline any document workflow with efficient results. With the fastest Microsoft Office to PDF converter on the market, our Batch tool helps you create or convert multiple PDFs at once, along with the ability to add page numbers, watermarks, Bates numbering & secure permissions to multiple files or folders in seconds. Keep a safe distance between people and paper by signing, managing & tracking electronic signatures remotely using our efficient E-Sign feature. Save time & avoid retyping with OCR Edit to quickly search, recognize & modify text contained within any scanned document or image file. Access Soda PDF’s entire suite of tools & services directly from your desktop, or from any device with a web browser.
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    PrizmDoc

    PrizmDoc

    Accusoft

    Through a collection of UI components and content manipulation APIs, PrizmDoc provides customizable document processing to help developers deliver in-browser document creation, editing, and collaboration functionality, to enhance their software applications. Our functionality integrates on the client and server side smoothly, creating a seamless experience for both you and your users. Render and display dozens of file types, from Adobe PDFs and Microsoft Office files to CAD and DICOM formats, in a browser without the need to download or open native applications. Designed for seamless integration with your application, our zero footprint HTML5 viewer is fully customizable, from quick integrations with minimal configuration to complete programmatic control using our extensive JavaScript API.
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    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyperCMS Content Management Solutions

    The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.
    Starting Price: $21.00/mo (SaaS) $0 On-Premise
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    Foxit PDF Editor

    Foxit PDF Editor

    Foxit Software

    Foxit PDF Editor enables users to edit, create, review, collaborate on, share, secure, organize, export, OCR, and eSign PDFs across desktop, mobile, and web. Designed for business professionals, it delivers powerful yet intuitive workflows whether working in the office, at home, or on the go. With enterprise-grade functionality, integrations, and mass deployment capabilities at a cost-effective price, Foxit PDF Editor is a strong alternative to traditional PDF solutions. Available in two editions—PDF Editor and PDF Editor+—the platform supports everyone from individual knowledge workers to large organizations requiring advanced editing, collaboration, and security features. While most editing tools focus only on document creation and revision. Foxit Document Management System (DMS) is included within Foxit PDF Editor, to help store, organize, and manage documents throughout the entire editing lifecycle.
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    Starting Price: $10.99 US per month
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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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    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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    PDF Conversion SDK

    PDF Conversion SDK

    Visual Integrity Technologies

    Add PDF Features with 2 API Calls Open, Edit, and View PDF. All that's needed is two API calls and a configuration file. Within a day, you can add, open, import, edit and view PDF features in your app. When formats don't match one-to-one, the SDK neutralizes the differences. This includes adding cropping, fills, color management and fonts. The PDF Conversion SDK processes all PDF versions including ISO Standard PDF 2.0. Any PDF from file or print-ready memory is valid input. Conversions flow straight through without intermediate steps or compromised quality. No printer driver. The PDF Conversion SDK runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It supports .NET. Example code included. Removes redundant information & compresses data. This ensures great performance for fast web and application viewing. Search for objects and text strings. Convert PDF to your native file format. Change the contents of a PDF page. Extract images from PDF. Retrieve metadata from PDF (layers, geospecification, etc).
    Starting Price: $199 per year
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    Instafill

    Instafill

    Botmakers LLC

    Instafill.ai is an AI form filler that completes PDF forms automatically and turns Word files, flat PDFs, and scans into fillable templates. It pulls data from whatever you already have - spreadsheets, text files, images, partially filled PDFs, and fills each field with speed and precision. Key features: - AI agent: assembles complete document packages, not just single fields - merging, stamping signatures, headers, and page numbers, placing images, flattening and splitting. - MCP server: connects Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex directly to your form library. - Windows desktop app: right-click any PDF in File Explorer and fill it without opening the app. - Batch filling: complete the same form hundreds of times from CSV or XLSX. - Reusable profiles: store client data once, reuse it across every form. - Built-in editor and field logic: conditionals, dependencies, and row-by-row table control. - API, webhooks, Chrome and Edge extensions.
    Starting Price: $99/month
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    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    Document management professionals turn to DocsCorp when they are looking for easy-to-use software that empowers them to work safer and smarter. We are a global brand with more than 500,000 users in over 65 countries. Our product portfolio is a list of must-have technologies that include document creation, email recipient checking, metadata cleaning, document comparison, PDF creation, and image file conversion to PDF, which can be accessed on the desktop, server or cloud. Our products integrate out-of-the-box with leading enterprise content management systems to streamline processes and to drive business efficiency. We offer organizations a combination of on-premises and cloud integrations. We work with industries that are document-centric to help them manage their most critical asset - documents. This includes Government Departments, Legal Services, Financial Services, and Technology companies.
    Starting Price: $49.50/user
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    Doc.It by IRIS

    Doc.It by IRIS

    Doc.It Inc.

    Document Management, Workflow, PDF Editing and Web Portal solutions for accounting firms to improve productivity and efficiency. Accounting and tax firms using Doc.It Suite software stay organized by streamlining and automating digital processes that drive efficiency, workflows and profitability while minimizing risk associated with dealing with the exchange and storage of financial documents. Doc.It was founded in 2001, is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and currently has 600 accounting firms and 16,000 users. There are three product options depending on your firms needs. 1. Doc.It Suite includes all functions of the software- Scan and Organize, document management, workflow, web portal, PDF Editor and all integrations. 2.. Doc.It Connect is focused around the web portal functionalities with the work binders for document storage. 3. Doc.It Explore is the starting point for document storage. and includes the PDF editor
    Starting Price: $29.00/month/user
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    PDF+

    PDF+

    ExhibitView Solutions

    PDF+ is a legal industry-specific product made for lawyers and staff. Built with the most often used features needed in a law firm. Price is $99.99 annual subscription per SUL (Single User License) 2 activations. Price includes 1 year of 24/7 support, and all updates and upgrades. PDF+ has minimal learning curve. PDF+ will also work with image exhibits too! Legal Specific Product. Save money on other PDF software subscriptions. Prep documents for deposition, trial, and mediation in seconds.
    Starting Price: $99.99 per year
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    Fill

    Fill

    Starboard Systems

    The Quickest Way to Fill, Send & Sign PDFs. PDF is one of the most common formats for legal documents, application forms, business contracts and more. Adobe offers a paid software but it can be slow, costly and take up valuable space on your computer. Fill is a free web-based PDF tool which offers a quick solution when you need to sign a form, fill a form, or send to others to fill and sign. Our built in email ability allows you to send the form directly to the signee from Fill with a personalized email subject and message. Completed forms will be saved on your Fill account with a full paper trail of who signed and when! PDF is one of the most common formats for legal documents, application forms, business contracts and more. Adobe offers a paid software but it can be slow, costly and take up valuable space on your computer. Fill is a free web-based PDF tool which offers a quick solution when you need to sign a form, fill a form, or send to others to fill and sign.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    ChimpKey

    ChimpKey

    ChimpKey

    A business-grade automated engine that converts your PDFs to XML and/or EDI file format your system needs to achieve easy and error-free XML/EDI for your company. We process thousands of files per day. Our Data conversion and automation service saves organizations around the world countless hours in repetitive, manual data entry so that they can put more time and focus on their bottom line. We can process an unlimited amount of documents with ZERO errors. Not only will your data entry be perfect, it will also be Safe and Secure. Companies around the world rely on us to deliver documents with 100% accuracy in an expedited time frame. Since 2008, ChimpKey has been famous for its experienced and knowledgeable approach towards data conversion intricacies. ChimpKey has been designed from the beginning to be customized for every company that uses us. This creates an intuitive, seamless user-friendly experience. ChimpKey offers a user-friendly interface and processes which are effortless.
    Starting Price: $185/month
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    DocStyle

    DocStyle

    DocStyle LLC

    DocStyle will convert and style any PDF file to Word completely in a single process using Intelligent Formatting Recognition. A process designed to clearly and accurately identify content in order to generate an editable and functional structured Word document. DocStyle will also style a Word document naively thereby relieving the burden of time consuming cleanup.
    Starting Price: $49/Month
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    iText

    iText

    Apryse

    Now part of the Apryse family, iText is one of the best-documented and most versatile PDF SDKs in the world. The open-source iText Core library features a powerful layout engine and intuitive high-level APIs for document creation and manipulation, digital signing and validation, and much more. It has built-in support for PDF 2.0, all variants of PDF/A and PDF/UA, FIPS-140-2 and the very latest ISO standards for digital signatures and encryption. You can extend iText's capabilities even further, with add-ons for comprehensive HTML/XML and CSS templating, global language and writing systems, secure document redaction, OCR, document optimization, and working with dynamic XFA. iText Core is free to use under the AGPLv3 license, while a commercial license releases you from the AGPL terms and gives you professional support and maintenance. Visit the iText website to try the entire iText Suite free for 30 days, while keeping your IP safe under iText's commercial license terms.
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    SCHEMA ST4

    SCHEMA ST4

    SCHEMA Group

    The SCHEMA Group was established in Nuremberg in 1995 and is a medium-sized software manufacturer with more than 130 employees. The SCHEMA Group produces component content management and content delivery solutions for authoring departments creating product-related content. The SCHEMA ST4 component content management system is one of the most frequently used systems for the modularised creation of documentation, package inserts and marketing documentation. The system covers all areas of creation, versioning, variant control, translation, management and publication of product-related content – from authoring assistance during input to the finished layout for the printed catalog. A documentation portal based on Quanos InfoCube provides a central point of contact on the Internet where all technical documentation is available. Users can quickly and precisely find the right content in the entire information inventory with an easy-to-use search system.
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    Foxit PDF SDK

    Foxit PDF SDK

    Foxit Software

    Our high-performance libraries add robust PDF functionality to enterprise, mobile, and cloud applications across all platforms: Web, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac, UWP and Linux, using the most popular developer languages and environments. Build on a modern tech stack that integrates tightly with the platform you’re working on. We continuously improve our products and they gain new features every month. We grow with you as your requirements change and your project evolves. Our core API is designed from the ground up to deliver a seamless development experience across all platforms, without requiring deep PDF knowledge. Foxit is known for our management of edge cases, and for working with 100% of PDF files across all standards. With only one SDK to work with, you dramatically reduce your exposure to third parties. We provide sample, projects, demos, API docs and more for every single feature in the PDF SDK to get you up to speed quickly. You will receive support by real developers.
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