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# PDFelement User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.4/5
- Total reviews: 440

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.3/5
- Customer support: 4.1/5
- Value for money: 4.3/5
- Functionality: 4.3/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 245 reviews (56%)
- 4 stars: 146 reviews (33%)
- 3 stars: 25 reviews (6%)
- 2 stars: 7 reviews (2%)
- 1 star: 17 reviews (4%)

### Most mentioned pros

- PDFelement gives me access to all the professional PDF editing features I need on a daily basis for a fraction of the price of traditional software, optimizing both my budget and my time.
- It has proven itself among many sites and applications in that it contains tools with all the features and tools in converting PDF and other documents.
- I like OCR recognize text in PDF and images, PDF can be converted in editable file and also works offline.

### Most mentioned cons

- I have noticed that when converting highly complex PDF files containing nested tables or rare fonts into Word format, the original layout can sometimes shift slightly, forcing me to make a few manual adjustments.
- The OCR tool of this software PDFelement is somehow bad and do not give accurate results and do not support a lot of languages.
- Nothing vibrant or standing out to catch the eye.

## PDFelement customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 440 (page 1).

### Budge Estimator

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Fannie C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The pricing is reasonable, and the account can be shared by multiple users. Overall, it is a good value for small businesses.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Wondershare has become much easier to use. Editing, copying, and downloading files are simple and efficient.

#### Cons

Some features still need improvement, particularly OCR and image editing. They do not always work as expected and can affect productivity.

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### Simplified PDF.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Remya M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

PDFelement is assisted by AI which simplifies pdf management.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

PDFelement is very unique and easy to use in conversion of docs to pdf. The most attractive part of it, PDFelement helps me to summarize pdf files.

#### Cons

PDFelement is easy to use for pdf management.

#### Reasons for switching to PDFelement

PDFelement is easy to install and learn how to use.

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### PDFElement Review by Kelvin Hernandez

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Kelvin H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I have an excellent overall experience, It’s a solid, "no-nonsense" workhorse. It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel; it just makes the wheel much more affordable.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Familiar interface inspired in the traditional office swite, it have a perpetual licensing option for lifetime usage.

#### Cons

The Standard version is quite limited. Most of the features you actually want—like batch processing, OCR, and data extraction—are locked behind the Pro version.

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### The intuitive and budget-friendly alternative that simplifies my life

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Patrick K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Regained efficiency without breaking the bank. PDFelement gives me access to all the professional PDF editing features I need on a daily basis for a fraction of the price of traditional software, optimizing both my budget and my time.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I discovered PDFelement while looking for a less expensive alternative to the Adobe suite, and I was pleasantly surprised. What I love above all else is its modern and clean interface that closely resembles Microsoft Office, making it immediately familiar and easy to pick up. Text editing, PDF-to-Word or Excel conversion, and optical character recognition (OCR) work flawlessly and very quickly. It is the ideal compromise between simplicity and power.

#### Cons

I have noticed that when converting highly complex PDF files containing nested tables or rare fonts into Word format, the original layout can sometimes shift slightly, forcing me to make a few manual adjustments. Additionally, the free version applies a rather large watermark right in the middle of documents, which forces you to upgrade to the paid version for professional use.

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### PDFelement: A wonderful app by Wondershare Team

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Abhinav B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Broadcast Media
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for free trial
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall it’s a great co-office tool, and can be the part for your essential bucket of day to day Softwares

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Because it is open source and available for both iOS and Windows backed with wide range of tools, I found PDFelement is a perfect companion

#### Cons

It became slow over the period of time , and cropping the elements is little difficult to adopt. Though it’s my personal view and many users may like it the way it is . You are requested to check before invest

#### Reasons for switching to PDFelement

I was evaluating the features and found it satisfactory, both the above are little difficult especially illustrator as it is design for some other work

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### A Cost-Effective, Robust PDF Processing Utility

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Mohammad M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

It's a real breeze utilizing the software thanks to its plenty of features & ease of use. Will certainly stick to using the software for the foreseeable future.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The plethora of features the desktop & mobile variants of the software presented on the ribbon interface makes it easier to find the desired function.

#### Cons

Auto-updates running in the background (especially on computer start-up) increases the temps & usage of my Athlon 200GE office machine. While the software itself is silky-smooth, the consequently stressed-up dual core CPU has led the machine to stutter the Windows interface just for a few moments before everything goes back to normal (i.e. till the short update is over).

#### Reasons for choosing PDFelement

For the asking price & feature-set, PDFelement was the right choice.

#### Reasons for switching to PDFelement

The former PDF utilities I've used were lurked with convoluted settings, text artefacts popping up when converting from PDF to Word & frequent stutters when scrolling through a long PDF document. Thankfully, none of these issues were encountered with PDFelement.

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### PDFelement is a Superb Tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: January 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I love wondershare, PDFelement is an amazing tool and I recommend it highly for anyone who wants to create professional documents

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It is great value for money and my documents are secured. The cloud storage is large and the features are numerous to mention

#### Cons

It takes a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes very very easy to use

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### Works fine when I need it

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Maik K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I use PDFelement when I need to change PDFs and it works fine. It’s not perfect but it gets the job done for me.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The best is that I can edit PDFs without stress. The tools are simple and clear, I don’t lose time looking.

#### Cons

It can slow down with big files and it crashes sometimes. Also wish more stuff was free to use, not paid.

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### Pdfelement for college coursework

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Destiny C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Arts and Crafts
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I love being able to create pdf documents, as well as, edit ones that I need to download & complete for my college coursework. It gives me a major advantage over others who don't have software that is as up to date or functional.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I enjoyed that this product gives you the ability to use toms of different editing features & even the ability to create your own graphics add-ins.

#### Cons

The overall layout itself and it's graphics are plain & boring. Nothing vibrant or standing out to catch the eye.

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### The best software for PDF files

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ivan F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: May 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I really like the software because I use it almost daily to manage and convert my PDF files in every possible way I need

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Very easy to use and manage my pdf files. Ai feature to handle docs, editing and possibility of e signature

#### Cons

Nothing, very good software and easy to use. Maybe the price could be a bit lower, but still great software

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### PDF management

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Natalie S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: International Trade and Development
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I like OCR recognize text in PDF and images, PDF can be converted in editable file and also works offline.

#### Cons

No dislike because in the pre-visit features were improved upon.

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### A good option for PDF editing that offers versatile features for mac users

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Rachael M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used monthly for free trial
- Reviewed: February 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall a positive experience as a mac user and would use again and recommend to others.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Versatility of options for editing documents, merging, and converting documents, and ease of use with Apple products.

#### Cons

Interface was not as easy to navigate and interact with as other PDF editors used.

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### PDFElement - Simply the best PDF reader

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

In my day-to-day life, PDFElement is a unique tool. Manipulating PDF documents with it is very simple. Creating a PDF document, editing, protecting and emailing it is so simple and functional that it doesn't even seem like the program is free. Its modern and attractive look, combined with the many excellent functions it has, make PDFElement the best PDF reader on the market.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The PDFElement program is a robust, lightweight, functional and very complete PDF bed. It has excellent tools for viewing, manipulating and editing PDF files. With a very modern and intuitive interface, it is very simple to open a document, edit it and share it. The program has so many tools that it makes it a "premium" software for free. We can annotate PDF documents such as erasing text in documents, joining documents, compressing, capturing a photo of the document, adding images, protecting the document, among many other functions. Highlight for the OCR reader, which manages to transform closed PDF documents into editable documents, this is excellent. The program is very light and runs very well on any machine, being available for Windows and Mac. Among the several positive points, the following stand out: - Editing PDF documents, it is even possible to delete or insert texts; - Cloud sharing; - Add watermark; - Add background in the document; - Document optimization to make the file lighter; - OCR reader; PDFElement is my favorite PDF reader and I recommend it for all types of users, from the most basic to the most advanced.

#### Cons

I don't see any negative aspects in the program, as it has so many tools that it is very difficult to evaluate it negatively. Perhaps the only point I would suggest would be to make the program available for Linux, due to the vast number of users of the operating system. In general, the software is so good that I can barely evaluate with any negative point.

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### Overall, a great affordable alternative to Adobe Acrobat

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Travis W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, Wondershare PDFelement is a powerful PDF editing software with a wide range of features for basic and intermediate PDF editing needs. However, users who require advanced features, have budget constraints, or need extensive customer support may need to consider alternative options.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Comprehensive PDF Editing: Wondershare PDFelement offers a wide range of PDF editing features, allowing for easily modifying text, images, and other content in PDF documents. The software also supports advanced editing capabilities such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that allows you to edit scanned PDFs and convert them into editable formats.Intuitive User Interface: The user interface of PDFelement is clean, modern, and user-friendly, making it easy for both beginners and experienced users to navigate and use the software. The toolbar is well-organized with icons that are easy to understand, and the software provides clear instructions and prompts throughout the editing process.

#### Cons

Limited Advanced Features: While PDFelement offers a wide range of basic and intermediate PDF editing features, it may lack some of the advanced features that are available in other premium PDF editing software. For users who require highly advanced functionalities, such as advanced data extraction, advanced OCR capabilities, or complex document automation, they may need to look for alternative solutions.OCR Accuracy: While PDFelement's OCR feature is useful for converting scanned documents into editable formats, the accuracy of the OCR may vary depending on the quality of the scanned document. In some cases, users may need to manually correct errors or make adjustments to ensure accurate text recognition.

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### PDFelement Wonders

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Charles E.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

PDFelement is an all encompassing platform that gives you flexibility to maximize resources around a PDF

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The ability to edit and work on a PDF as though I work on a word document

#### Cons

None I can think of at the moment because it's been a good product.

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### PDF element review

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Market Research
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

My overall experience with PDFelement is very positive esp for a newbie like me

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

What I really love about PDFelement is being user-friendly, affordable, and you can use some of the features for free using some standard features that you expect from most PDF editors while offering other awesome options for those who wanted to explore more possibilities.

#### Cons

The least that I like about this app is that in order to enjoy the optimum features you can opt to use the premium and pay more and it's sometimes slow.

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### Document management and modification.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Michael S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We use it to manage our documents securely and to speed up the approval process for signatures and quotations.Overall it allows us to edit and generate documents, have pre-determined leads and keep better control of expenses and contract compliance.It helps to generate documents and update them as conditions change.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I like that it allows us to speed up the approval of budgets for software and hardware purchases and upgrades, which is important because the IT sector is a sensitive area of investment for our company.Our work teams exchange documents with specifications and modifications very regularly so this tool is of intensive use for us.

#### Cons

There is nothing I dislike about this software.

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### Great OCR

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Hèlia T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Our office loves the fact we can really trust on the OCR tool. We then sign the documents and keep all the text saved in a external server for AI processing.

#### Cons

This is a great software that works well in different platforms that I am unable to cite no issue.

#### Vendor response

Hi Helia. Thanks for sharing your high recognition of the OCR tool and other features. It really encourages us a lot!

Replied July 2022

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### Make Experiment with PDFelement

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Ivan Harris T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: February 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The software needs to improve its storage capacity especially when handling larger files. Other than that, I have no issues with using PDFelement at all.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

PDFelement allows you to insert text and image you want without the hassle. It has also a very simple yet user friendly interface, which allows you to easily navigate the entire software. The price is also competitive, given the functionalities it has which is at par with some of the leading PDF editor software in the market.

#### Cons

There are times however that the software crashes especially when the file size is large. This prompts the user to restart all over again due to the technical error, although this is an isolated case only.

#### Vendor response

Hi Ivan. Thanks for sharing your experience and we appreciate your recognition of its function and interface. Regarding the crash issue when you are processing large files, please update to the latest version to check if it helps. If not, you may drop an email with more details at customer_service@wondershare.com. We'll put your case in the 1st priority and do the needful assistance for you ASAP. It is our ultimate pursuit that users can use our software happily! So we hope there would be a chance for us to further look into your issue and fix it, thanks again!

Replied June 2022

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### Probably the best PDF editor out there

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ujjwal K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: August 2018
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

PDFelement 6 is one of the best and also probably the best PDF editor I have ever used. The thing I loved about it the most is the UI, the functionality and the amazing extra functionality that it has. The OCR function for example is great to work with and it can easily recognize the accurate things from a scanned document using OCR easily.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The whole PDF editing experience with PDFelement 6 is so seamless and easy that it feels like you're using Microsoft Word to edit your docx files. There are a lot of this that this PDF editor does right. 1. It has a very nice user interface and it is very easy to use. The program is designed and developed in such a way that there is very less of a learning curve before you learn the whole program. 2. Apart from being a PDF editor, this program also has other important functionalities like OCR, data redacting capability and more. 3. Converting the PDF files to other formats like docx, xlxs, and even pptx is very simple and the program does a decent job to convert these files. 4. Wondershare pushes out important updates for the program every once in a while and these updates make the program even better.

#### Cons

There is not much of a downside to using this product but keep in mind that it is a PDF editor even though it has other functionalities like OCR etc. The conversion is good but it is not that great. The program does struggle a bit when it comes to converting complex documents like PDF to excel etc.

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### PDFelement by Wondershare provides you with Beautiful, simple, and lighter experience.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Rajkumar A T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The first thing that attracts you about PDFelement is the GUI. It is very beautiful to the eyes and clean and well-organized. But more than that, it is so simple to use, coming with almost all the PDF solutions and features you would need. Definitely a 5/5 since I have been using it from quite long, and it has never disappointed. And yes, by lighter I mean the system memory it uses, and the setup file being clean and not bundled with bloatwares, etc..

#### Cons

I just wish it was portable too, and had a lifetime with free upgrades subscription also.

#### Reasons for switching to PDFelement

Sumatra PDF is free, but has limited options and features, and also...not a PDF editor at all, or converter.

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### Simple file transformation with incredible quality

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Oleksandr K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I am satisfied, as our company has benefited from the program since we installed it; for example, we often use a file transformation mechanism to send invoices to suppliers and promote streamlining operations by strategically placing and viewing PDF documents. The program certainly gets a lot of attention because it is specialized software, and the files are essential to promote labor savings in this age of rapidly expanding data.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The quality of the files is because I have been using PDFelement for quite some time and performing fascinating management of the files it contains. I have achieved solid performance, improving the files' shape and concept while processing. I like using it because the program's tools can be navigated and tweaked without the assistance of a guru.

#### Cons

The application could use some tweaking in terms of the functions' specific layout, the shortcuts' iconography and the ease with which one task moves to the next.

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### The smoothest PDF editor

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Zaid S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I love PDFelement it is the best PDF editor software, and I like that it does not consume device resources. Also, PDFelement contains all PDF editing tools.

#### Cons

The OCR tool of this software PDFelement is somehow bad and do not give accurate results and do not support a lot of languages.

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### It's fantastic! Great PDF reader - editor

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Carlos R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Import and Export
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: November 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Perfect! It's quite simply the best pdf reader I have ever used.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I love PDFelement, I use it on both Mac and Windows, it has a very nice design and is easy to use, its functions are interesting, you can even add our signature to a document!

#### Cons

The only thing I can talk about here is that I would like to have an "eraser" tool, so that we can remove any highlights that we have made with the program.

#### Reasons for choosing PDFelement

I tried both in their trial versions and I was finally convinced by Element

#### Reasons for switching to PDFelement

Because I didn't like it at all

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### Good Application to work with PDF Files

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Konjengbam Mitindra S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for free trial
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I love this software and it have made me efficient working with PDF files. I love reading PDF files using this application.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I love the easy availability of this application on Google Playstore. The Software have a good user interface and reading of PDF files is much comfortable using this application. The editing of PDF files can be done with so much ease as features of editing are readily available. This application have made my work more faster and efficient while working with pdf Files.

#### Cons

I wish folders could be maintain more easily in application.

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