Compare the Top PDF Software in Africa as of November 2025 - Page 2

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    pdfFiller

    pdfFiller

    pdfFiller

    pdfFiller is a cloud-based platform with a comprehensive digital toolkit that makes handling PDFs easy. Edit, sign, store, manage, and collaborate on documents all in one place — no downloads, switching apps, or paying for multiple subscriptions needed. All your documents are safely stored in the cloud, so you can access them anytime, anywhere, without worrying about losing your data.
    Starting Price: $8.00/month/user
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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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    Systweak PDF Editor

    Systweak PDF Editor

    Systweak Software

    Systweak PDF Editor is a powerful, easy-to-use PDF management tool for Windows that lets you view, edit, convert, merge, split, compress, and secure PDF files effortlessly. Whether you're a student, professional, or business user, this all-in-one PDF solution covers everything you need. You can edit text and images directly in your PDF, convert files to and from formats like Word, Excel, and JPG, and organize pages with drag-and-drop ease. With built-in OCR, you can extract editable text from scanned documents. Add annotations, comments, watermarks, and protect your files with password encryption or digital signatures. Batch processing makes handling multiple PDFs quick and efficient. Systweak PDF Editor is compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8.1, and 7, and offers a clean, intuitive interface ideal for all user levels. Experience a smarter, faster, and more secure way to work with PDFs.
    Starting Price: 34.98
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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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    PDF Automation Server
    PDF Automation Server – PDF Processing Server PDF Automation Server is a modular server product that provides a rich set of PDF processing functions for different environments. Use PAS as an essential tool to streamline your PDF processing, document workflows and web service orchestration in your organization. REST API Module Use REST API calls to easily integrate into your existing document workflows HTML5 PDF Module Convert documents and serve end-users PDF files directly in the browser Workflow Module Automate the receiving, processing & routing of documents with the PAS Workflow Module Robust REST API PDF Automation Server provides a complete set of PDF processing and conversion functions in a robust REST server environment that can easily integrate into your existing document workflows and work with 3rd party integration and orchestration products. HTML PDF Markup Module PDF Automation Server provides a module to enable markup of PDF documents in the browser.
    Starting Price: $2,400
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    DocHub

    DocHub

    DocHub

    Edit, send & sign PDF documents online for free. Document workflow, simplified. DocHub streamlines document signing, distribution and form completion. Import your document to DocHub straight from your inbox, drag and drop your signature, and email it back. No need to print and scan! Request signatures or completed forms from other parties and DocHub will walk the recipients through the document, field-by-field, until its signed and finalized. Getting a document signed by multiple individuals has never been easier. Specify who needs to sign and where, then send the document as a Sign Request and DocHub handles the rest. Edit PDFs online. The Page Manager displays thumbnails of each page in your document, allowing you to rotate, delete, or reorder pages using drag and drop. Easily merge PDFs or other documents together with a simple click. Gmail, Google Drive and Dropbox are seamlessly integrated into DocHub.
    Starting Price: 0$ (free 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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    pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted
    pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted is available on the AWS Marketplace and can be spun up in just a few clicks. Self-host a production ready server to integrate the PDF processing API Toolkit into your own service or to automate your internal document workflow. Watermark PDF, Add to PDF, Query PDF, Convert to PDF, PDF to Images, Convert PDF Colors, Convert to PDF/A, Convert to PDF/X, Compress PDF, Linearize PDF, Flatten Annotations, Flatten Layers, Flatten Transparencies, Merge PDFs, Split PDF, Encrypt PDF, Decrypt PDF, Restrict PDF, Extract Text, OCR PDF, Upload Files, Zip Files. Maintain full control with a dedicated EC2-based RESTful API with scalable performance to meet your needs. Built with Adobe PDF Library, the same technology that powers Adobe Acrobat, and developed by Datalogics, globally-trusted document processing experts for over 50 years, pdfRest has the gold-standard API Toolkit for high-quality PDF processing.
    Starting Price: $0.242 per hour
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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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    QuicklyPDF

    QuicklyPDF

    QuicklyPDF

    QuicklyPDF is a free, privacy-first online platform designed to handle a wide range of PDF tasks effortlessly. Whether you need to merge multiple PDFs, split large files, compress PDFs to reduce file size, or convert documents between PDF and various formats like Word, Excel, and images, QuicklyPDF offers all these features in a user-friendly, no-frills interface. Unlike many other tools, QuicklyPDF prioritizes user privacy. Files uploaded to the server are automatically deleted within one hour to ensure your data remains secure. Additionally, certain features such as PDF merging, splitting, and image-to-PDF conversion are processed locally in your browser using WebAssembly (WASM), meaning your files never leave your device for those operations. QuicklyPDF is entirely free to use—there are no hidden charges, no subscriptions, and no sign-ups required. You can handle unlimited PDF tasks without worrying about daily limits or watermarks. The platform is accessible from all devices.
    Starting Price: $0
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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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    PDF4All

    PDF4All

    PDF4All

    PDF4All is an online platform offering a wide array of PDF and image tools designed to optimize, convert, merge, and edit files effortlessly. It enables users to compress PDFs and images without losing quality, convert various file formats like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to PDF, and vice versa. The platform also offers features like rotating, splitting, and cropping PDFs, as well as extracting images from PDF files. PDF4All simplifies the document management process by making it accessible to everyone, regardless of their technical expertise, with an easy-to-use, no-cost solution.
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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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    KDAN PDF

    KDAN PDF

    Kdan Mobile Software

    KDAN PDF (formerly PDF Reader) is your all-in-one PDF solution. Edit, sign, OCR scan, convert, annotate, and fill forms in PDF documents. With innovative AI features, speed up your document workflow! Designed for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, KDAN PDF is trusted by millions for its comprehensive features and efficiency. AI FEATURES: • Analyze and extract key information or tables from a PDF, then convert the data into spreadsheets for further analysis or visualization. • Chat with PDF and get document analysis, advice, new ideas, or content summary • Text redaction - automatically identify and block sensitive information in a document
    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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    TinyWow

    TinyWow

    TinyWow

    TinyWow provides free online conversion, pdf, and other handy tools to help you solve problems of all types. All files both processed and unprocessed are deleted after 1 hour. Convert PDF to JPG and download each page as an image. Convert PDF to PNG and download each page as an image.
    Starting Price: $5.99 per month
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    PDF Guru

    PDF Guru

    PDF Guru

    Convert, edit, merge, and compress PDFs with just a few clicks. Download your document quickly and with ease. Our PDF converter can create PDF files in seconds! We use HTTPS encryption to protect your digital data when you make PDF files on our platform. Redact a PDF, modify text, add new objects, and perform even more actions all in one place. We designed an intuitive interface so that you can use our PDF maker without any hassle. Our PDF maker works online on all platforms, whether it's Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, or Android. If you don’t want others to open, edit, or print your file, you can lock or restrict access to it.