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OrbitNote

OrbitNote transforms how students and educators interact with PDF documents, enabling greater accessibility and collaboration. With a simple one-click OCR scanning feature, OrbitNote converts printed text into accessible, editable PDFs, giving students the tools they need to succeed, including text-to-speech, highlighting, vocabulary support, and freehand drawing. Students can express their ideas flexibly by typing, drawing, and adding images directly onto PDFs. Teachers can use OrbitNote to provide real-time feedback through voice notes, allowing students to make improvements before submission. Collaboration is made easy as both teachers and students can actively engage with the document, making OrbitNote ideal for group projects, planning, and study sessions. Designed to work with Google Classroom and other learning management systems, OrbitNote helps educators seamlessly integrate interactive PDFs into their workflow

PDF9.Ai

PDF9.Ai is a free, private, AI-powered PDF workspace that offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing PDF documents. Users can view, edit, merge, split, compress, and convert PDFs, as well as recognize text through Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The platform also facilitates filling out official government forms and sending documents for electronic signatures. Additionally, PDF9.Ai features a built-in AI assistant capable of analyzing, summarizing, and translating documents. Most tools operate entirely within the user's browser, ensuring that files remain on the device and enhancing privacy. By signing in with Google, users can save documents to PDF9 Drive and synchronize their work across multiple devices.

PDFAid

PDF Analysis & Repair

PDF Analysis & Repair detects corrupt PDFs and automated document processing. You can repair defective or illegible PDF documents or restore them as far as possible. Even if you can't recover the document, you can still extracts legible content such as images or page fragments and save the data as a new document.

PDFAnnotations

pdf_as

PDF Assist

Description: Fully featured PDF manipulation tool. Features: The following features are all included in the base price purchase Redaction: Secure redaction of content from PDF files, including automatic marking of common areas such as NI Numbers, UTR tax references, phone numbers and dates. Selected content is completely removed not just masked or hidden with a black rectangle unlike some other products! Annotation: Highlight, underline, strikethrough, and squiggly text markup. Free hand drawing. Shapes - line, rectangle, circle, arrow, polygon, cloud, and text callout. Stamps. Sticky notes. Text and ink signatures. Merge / Split: Split existing PDF every x pages. Merge multiple PDF files into one PDF file. Mark: Add custom or pre-defined watermark to all pages. Convert: Convert PDF to Excel, Word, HTML or Image. Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, Image, TIFF to PDF. Extract all text from PDF. Perform OCR on scanned PDF or image to convert it into editable text. Protect: Encrypt and password protect PDF file for viewing. Encrypt and protect PDF files and decide whether to allow printing, modification or extraction of text. Unprotect existing PDF files. Portfolio: Create a PDF Portfolio containing multiple file formats including Images, Word, Excel and Text files – all of which remain in original file format and appear as tiles down side of PDF document. Tools: Get document information. Check files for corruption and fix where possible. Compress existing PDF files by optimizing images, fonts, page content and removing metadata information. Additional Features: Touch / stylus support. Settings allow you to choose whether PDF Assist starts in redaction mode or annotation mode, and also allows you to enable/disable automatic marking for redaction and to choose which areas are marked automatically. All documents created and modified by the tool will have author information added which will consist of the name of the currently logged on user, which is useful for auditing purposes. Thumbnail views. Rotate, rearrange and delete pages. Form filling. Install updates automatically without user requiring admin rights or UAC elevation - perfect for enterprise environments - or completely disable automatic updating per machine if being used in a virtualized infrastructure such as Citrix, Hive or Remote Desktop. Premium Features: The following features are available as part of the annual premium subscription Accurately convert PDF to Excel with automatic recognition of tabular content. Convert PDF to Word ensuring the document retains the flow and layout of your original file. Automatically convert scanned and/or rotated documents into editable content. Convert PDF to PowerPoint retaining the original design and layout. Sample conversions can be found on my website * Features subject to change

PDFb2

PDF Batch Editor

PDFBeast

PdfcCompare

Compare PDF files side-by-side with 100% private WebAssembly.

PDF Combine Pro

PDF Converter

As an online free PDF converter, you can convert PDF files anytime, anywhere and on any device as long as your device can connect to the Internet and open the PDF converter page successfully. This powerful converter can output high-quality PDF files that meet your needs in seconds and supports almost all popular file formats, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, JPG, PNG, etc. In addition to converting PDF files, PDF Converter also provides many PDF file editing features, such as merging multiple PDF files into one PDF, extracting specific pages from PDF files, and reducing the size of PDF files without affecting the quality. At the same time, this PDF converter is also popular for its intuitive page design and simple operation. Even if you are a beginner, you can quickly complete the conversion of PDF files by following the guide.

PDF Creator for Excel

Create high-quality PDF files from Excel without unnecessary scaling, distortion, or unreadable content. PDF Creator for Excel by Uniform Software Limited is an Excel add-in designed for users who need to export worksheets, charts, diagrams, and selected cell ranges to PDF while preserving the original layout and proportions. Unlike conventional Excel-to-PDF workflows that often force content onto standard paper sizes, PDF Creator for Excel automatically calculates the dimensions of your content and creates a custom PDF paper size. This helps minimize scaling and keeps diagrams, charts, tables, and other visual content clear and properly proportioned. Whether you are exporting a flowchart, Gantt chart, mind map, wide table, report, poster, or another large Excel-based document, PDF Creator for Excel provides a simple way to create a PDF that better matches the actual size of your content. Key Features • Create custom PDF page sizes directly from Excel Automatically calculate the size of the content and create a PDF page that fits it, rather than forcing everything into a predefined paper size. • Reduce scaling and distortion Large diagrams and wide spreadsheets can become difficult to read when they are automatically scaled down. PDF Creator for Excel is designed to avoid unnecessary scaling whenever possible. • Export Excel diagrams and charts Export diagrams, charts, and other visual content created in Excel while maintaining their original proportions. • Export selected cell ranges Select the specific range of an Excel worksheet that you want to convert to PDF instead of exporting the entire worksheet. • Export entire worksheets Generate PDFs from complete worksheets when you need to share or distribute an Excel-based document. • Preserve your Excel layout The application works with Excel's existing page setup and respects margins and page positioning options. • Support for very large documents Custom paper sizes can be used for large diagrams, charts, banners, posters, and other content that does not fit naturally on standard paper sizes. PDF Creator for Excel supports custom paper sizes up to 200 × 200 inches. • Simple Excel integration After installation, PDF Creator for Excel adds commands to Excel's UniformSoftware ribbon, making PDF creation available directly from your familiar Excel environment. • Works with Microsoft's built-in PDF printing technology The application uses the Windows Microsoft Print to PDF virtual printer while automatically defining an appropriate custom paper size before generating the PDF. Why Use PDF Creator for Excel? Excel is often used to create more than traditional spreadsheets. Many users create flowcharts, Gantt charts, organizational diagrams, dashboards, schedules, reports, and other visual documents in Excel. The problem comes when those documents need to be converted to PDF. Standard PDF export and printing workflows typically assume that content should fit within conventional paper sizes such as Letter or A4. When a diagram or spreadsheet is much wider or taller than the selected paper, Excel may scale the content substantially. Text becomes smaller, shapes can become difficult to read, and visual proportions may be affected. PDF Creator for Excel takes a different approach. Instead of starting with a standard paper size and forcing the content to fit, it calculates the dimensions of the content and defines a custom paper size accordingly. This makes it particularly useful when the PDF is intended primarily for digital sharing rather than physical printing. Ideal for Excel-Based Diagrams and Visual Documents PDF Creator for Excel is especially useful for exporting: • Flowcharts • Gantt charts • Mind maps • Organization charts • Process diagrams • Project plans • Business diagrams • Wide tables • Large reports • Dashboards • Charts and graphs • Posters and banners • Selected Excel ranges • Other large Excel-based documents For example, a flowchart may be much wider than a conventional Letter or A4 page. Rather than shrinking the entire flowchart to fit a standard page, PDF Creator for Excel can create a custom PDF page that better matches the dimensions of the flowchart. This approach helps keep text, shapes, and other elements readable when the PDF is viewed digitally. How It Works PDF Creator for Excel integrates directly with Microsoft Excel. After installation: 1. Launch PDF Creator for Excel once to initialize the Excel add-in. 2. Open your Excel workbook. 3. Go to the UniformSoftware ribbon tab. 4. Select the worksheet, range, or chart you want to export. 5. Click Create PDF. 6. PDF Creator for Excel calculates an appropriate custom paper size and generates the PDF. There is no need to manually calculate the paper dimensions for large diagrams or other unusual layouts. Custom Paper Sizes One of the main advantages of PDF Creator for Excel is its ability to create custom paper sizes based on the actual dimensions of your content. The application can calculate the required dimensions from the worksheet, selected range, or chart and account for the margins defined in Excel's Page Setup settings. Custom paper sizes can be as large as 200 × 200 inches (5080 × 5080 mm). When content exceeds the supported custom size, the application can split it across multiple pages. This makes the application suitable for documents that are far larger than conventional office paper sizes. Designed to Minimize PDF Scaling Scaling is not always a problem when the source content is close to the target paper size. However, aggressive scaling can make large diagrams and spreadsheets difficult to read and may introduce unwanted visual distortion. PDF Creator for Excel is designed to minimize this problem by dynamically defining the PDF page size around the content. This is particularly valuable for: • Large flowcharts • Complex process diagrams • Wide Gantt charts • Large organizational charts • Posters and banners • Diagrams containing many shapes and connectors • Spreadsheets with wide tables Instead of treating every document as if it needs to fit on a standard sheet of paper, PDF Creator for Excel lets the PDF page adapt to the document. A Useful Companion for Excel Diagram Tools PDF Creator for Excel can also be used alongside other Excel-based diagram and productivity tools from Uniform Software. For example, diagrams created with Flowchart Maker, Gantt charts, and other Excel-based visual documents can be exported to PDF while taking advantage of custom page sizing. This provides a convenient workflow for users who create professional diagrams in Excel and need to distribute them as PDF files. Built for Microsoft Excel Users PDF Creator for Excel works inside the Excel desktop environment rather than requiring users to manually move their content to a separate PDF application. This makes the workflow familiar: Create or edit your content in Excel → select the content → create a PDF. The generated PDF can then be shared with colleagues, customers, partners, or other recipients who do not need Excel to view the finished document. Microsoft Marketplace Availability PDF Creator for Excel is available through Microsoft Marketplace, making it a convenient option for organizations that manage software and subscriptions through Microsoft's business ecosystem. Organizations using work or school accounts can subscribe through Microsoft Marketplace and manage licenses through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. This can be particularly convenient for business and enterprise users who prefer to purchase and manage software through Microsoft's existing marketplace and administrative tools. Who Is PDF Creator for Excel For? PDF Creator for Excel is a good fit for: • Business analysts • Project managers • Engineers • Consultants • Office professionals • Excel power users • Diagram creators • People who create flowcharts or Gantt charts in Excel • Organizations that distribute Excel-based reports as PDFs • Teams that need high-quality PDF exports from large Excel documents If you frequently create large or unusually shaped documents in Excel and find that standard PDF export makes the result too small or difficult to read, PDF Creator for Excel provides a practical alternative. Get More from Excel PDF Export PDF Creator for Excel focuses on one specific problem: turning Excel content into high-quality PDF documents without unnecessarily forcing the content into standard page dimensions. By automatically calculating custom paper sizes, integrating directly with Excel, and working with Microsoft's built-in PDF printing technology, it provides a straightforward solution for exporting diagrams, charts, worksheets, and selected ranges. Create PDFs that fit your content—not the other way around.

PDFECTA

PDFECTA is a free suite of 20+ PDF tools built for individuals and businesses who need fast, reliable document processing without compromising privacy. Unlike traditional online PDF tools, PDFECTA processes every file entirely within the user's browser — no file is ever uploaded to a server, stored in the cloud, or accessed by a third party. Key features include: - Compress PDF — reduce file size while preserving quality - Merge PDF — combine multiple documents into one - Split PDF — divide files by page range or individually - Rotate PDF — fix page orientation instantly - Sign PDF — add a digital signature without printing - Add Watermark — mark documents as confidential, draft, or branded - Remove Blank Pages — automatically detect and delete empty pages - Convert PDF to JPG, PNG, Word, and Text formats, and back - Add Page Numbers — customizable position and format - Reorder, delete, and extract specific pages PDFECTA is ideal for professionals handling sensitive documents.