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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/pdf-studio-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/pdf-studio-profile/alternatives/) # PDF Studio User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.4/5 - Total reviews: 59 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 33 reviews (56%) - 4 stars: 20 reviews (34%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (7%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (2%) ### Most mentioned pros - a good tool for converting text, images, formatting to pdf format - On one hand, the software has great features such as creating, editing, and annotating PDFs, creating PDF forms, merging and splitting PDFs, adding and editing bookmarks, links, headers, and footers, adding and editing digital signatures and export PDFs to multiple formats. - PDF Studio has become an integral part of our daily routine, enabling us to quickly and easily read all of the relevant data science notes. ### Most mentioned cons - Simple copy / paste errors, can't delete some annotations, print to JPG often misses some annotations, so exported jpg's are incomplete, can't re-order objects (send to back or bring to front does not work) - Caused my screen to go black on installation and would not uninstall in safety mode. - However, it can be expensive, the interface can be cluttered, may require a powerful computer, may have limited compatibility with mobile devices, may have certain features limited in functionality, may have unresponsive customer support and may require additional plug-ins. ## PDF Studio customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 59 (page 1). ### Super complete, fast and powerful PDF editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Luca D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: May 2021 - 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 Easy to edit a pdf, do everything I did with Acrobat Pro without a problem Very fast and include a lot a functionality, maybe more than Adobe #### Cons Integration with onedrive not fully working on my ubuntu #### Reasons for switching to PDF Studio I use linux on my workstation, Adobe doesn't support gnu/linux OS --- ### PDF Studio: A Review of its features and limitations - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Emil L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have mixed feelings about the software. On one hand, the software has great features such as creating, editing, and annotating PDFs, creating PDF forms, merging and splitting PDFs, adding and editing bookmarks, links, headers, and footers, adding and editing digital signatures and export PDFs to multiple formats. The interface is user-friendly. However, it can be expensive, the interface can be cluttered, may require a powerful computer, may have limited compatibility with mobile devices, may have certain features limited in functionality, may have unresponsive customer support and may require additional plug-ins. It may also experience crashes or freezing and may be slow when working with large files. I would recommend trying the trial version before making a purchase to see if it meets your specific needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Its features have really wowed me. My work has become much more effective because I can easily create, edit, and annotate PDFs. For me, being able to create PDF forms is a game-changer because it eliminates the need for other software to perform this function. Another excellent feature is the ability to split and merge PDF files. I also value the addition and editing of Bates numbers, watermarks, headers, links, and headers and footers. Another benefit is having the option to add and edit digital signatures. Additionally, it is very helpful to have the choice to export PDFs to a variety of formats, including Word, Excel, and HTML. Easy navigation is provided by the user-friendly interface. All in all, if you need a dependable PDF editing program, I heartily suggest PDF Studio. #### Cons Although PDF Studio has some excellent features, it also has some drawbacks, which I recently discovered. Comparatively speaking to other PDF editing software available on the market, the price of the program is high. Some users may find the interface frustrating due to how cluttered and challenging it is to navigate. Some users might find it problematic that the software might need a powerful computer to function properly. While using the software, I occasionally crashed or experienced freezing, which is not ideal. Additionally, it only works partially with mobile devices, which could be problematic for users who need to edit PDFs on the go. Additionally, some features may only have limited functionality, which may not be acceptable to all users. Some users may have issues because the customer service is not very helpful and the software occasionally freezes or crashes. For certain features, it might also need additional plug-ins. When working with large files, some users may complain that the software is slow. This software might not be very helpful for users who only need to edit a few PDFs on occasion. Overall, PDF Studio has some fantastic features that are very helpful, but it also has its share of issues that may deter some users from using it. Before making a purchase, I advise trying the trial version to ensure that it satisfies your unique requirements. --- ### Many useful features, but outdated interface, bulky and slow app, not worth it - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Vadim K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Legal Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered They didn't upgrade my licence regardless these problems. Will use it for appending pages, but that's the only thing I might need it. Otherwise built-in MacOS Preview and Foxit does all the rest even better! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Many useful features, price (one time payment and relatively low) #### Cons Outdated design. Not very user friendly implementation. Renders every page of a multipage documents one by one - for up to 1-2 seconds each!! And even after rendering, doesn't load into RAM properly, so when you going back to it, it rerenders! Absolutely impossible to work like that. Switched to a free and better tool (Foxit). It happens to a 100 pages document (around 200 mb) on a Intel 9 Windows 10 machine, as well as on M1 Macbook Pro... No feature for table of contents that would be recognised in other readers. #### Reasons for switching to PDF Studio Price --- ### Pdf - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered a tool we use every day to read fichesir pdf #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros a good tool for converting text, images, formatting to pdf format #### Cons it will have to offer a lot of editing functionality --- ### PDF studio - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This app is soo good and the interface is straightforward to use. We can able to make different file and there is the search option so it made easy to find the information. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really liked the electronic and digital signature the features in the app and they are unique. This app have so many good features compared to the other apps. #### Cons The pricing of the app is high so better to decrease. --- ### Best PDF Software Available! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Farming - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Have used it for more than a year along side Adobe and other software and find our business transitioning to PDF Studio for nearly all our work because of it's simplicity, immediate and capable customer support, and support of all major OS'es, including Linux. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. Full OS Compatibility (Linux/Mac/Win- Unlike Adobe). 2. Ease of use (gentle learning curve). 3. Customer Support (Immediate capable help). 4. Features for quick and efficient business use (supports Java, quick image signatures etc). 5. Much better than Adobe and other main-stream alternatives. 6. Each software license allowed for use on 2 computers. 7. Software license can be transferred (in the event of computer sales, etc). 8. Regularly updated. #### Cons 1. Takes an email to remove old computers from software license (they may be changing this so the user can change the computer(s) the license key is associated with -in the event of sale, etc.). 2. Nothing else comes to mind... --- ### Make your PDF - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Animation - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This app is the best in pdf making and with all the other unique features. Very good interface and user friendly app. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Firstly I wanna mention the features of the app, those are soo good. The electronic and digital signature are soo cool and the search bar for the text search is very useful. #### Cons I think pricing have to be a bit low for the usage. --- ### Make your pdfs - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Best app to make your pdfs. We can merge and edit the pdfs. The text searching feature is very useful. User friendly website. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Here in this app we have so many features and some of them are unique like digital and electronic signatures. The pricing of the app is good. #### Cons There nothing to dislike about this platform upto now. --- ### Probably the best PDF tool for linux - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Miguel G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I truly recommend this software to any linux user who need a good PDF software but for reading or edit them, it works solid when PDF converting and it is really god for e signing them. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is probably the best PDF program in linux, we use it to edit our pdfs and electronic signing them and both functions are extremely easy to use, they are just one click away. Also it's document conversion is pretty solid and for linux you probably wont find another software that converts pdf as good as this one. #### Cons The free version will add a watermark, which is kind of annoying but I guess necessary for them. Also it would be better if they allowed for more customizing option to it's interface --- ### Best PDF Editor for Mac - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Juan B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Legal Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered PDF Studio Pro from Qoppa is an awesome alternative to the pricier Adobe Acrobat Pro program. I used Adobe Acrobat X Pro for many years in Windows, but now I am a Mac user and Acrobat is simply too expensive. I downloaded the trial version of PDF Studio Pro and was amazed at the capabilities it brings and It allows me to easily edit documents, annotate, format fields, etc. It allows easy reordering of pdf documents and digital signature. I would say the best part of this product is that is affordable while maintaining all the capabilities the more expensive products like Adobe Acrobat brings. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Affordable Easy to Install Great Features #### Cons Cannot find one --- ### Affordable - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tarell B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Outsourcing/ Offshoring - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Affordable while maintaining all capabilities of expensive editor such as Adobe Acrobat. Pdfstudio has great quality. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The workspace gives me that Microsoft word 2010 look. Which is familiar to me. #### Cons Only issue is that I wish this app was free. #### Reasons for switching to PDF Studio Doesn't have the feature to editing documents to sign during meetings. --- ### PDF Studio Professional excellent replacement for Adobe Acrobat - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kenny L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Security and Investigations - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Just take my word and try it before you buy it. You can download and install it onto your computer and try it out for free. I #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I am an avid Windows & Mac man. Now I have switched to Linux Mint and Adobe is not supported on Linus Mint. This caused me to shop around and find the best PDF editor. Well PDF Pro is an excellent product. What I found is how easy it is to use and run this program. It is cross platform and the give you two computer with one license key. This product costs a fraction of what Adobe charges. #### Cons I have nothing negative to say about this software. --- ### Produto no meio termo - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Diogo E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Judiciary - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Em termos gerais, é melhor que seus concorrentes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Rapidez no reconhecimento do texto ajuda. #### Cons Ocorrem inúmeras paradas durante a utilização. #### Reasons for switching to PDF Studio Parte financeira --- ### This seems to me to be the only real alternative to Adobe Acrobat on Linux - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Dragos S. - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Easily signing digitally PDFs with my hardware token. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I mainly need a PDF program in order to digitally sign (with a smartcard / digital token) different documents and, as Adobe killed its Linux offering, PDF Studio shaped up as the only alternative. It can use PKCS#12 certificates as well as PKCS#11 smart cards/tokens, which no other Linux program can manage (at least at this level of convenience and streamlining). It is the only Linux program that I found that creates a Sign here field in the PDF document which can then be used to digitally sign with a single click. It also works well to validate the signatures and has a great level of detail regarding it (certificates, trust chain etc.). #### Cons The only criticism I have is the interface - I use it on Gnome 3 and the Java look does not mesh well with the other apps and the fonts are not that good-looking, but it's not too bad either (compared to other Java apps). --- ### Quick & Intuituve, a good option on PDF - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The principal benefit that I can tell about this tool is the export options, the layouts for take a quick view or read my documents and the look & feel like Microsoft Office. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the workspace, have a design like Microsoft Word 2010. Is very intuitive. The snapshot is a feature that is useful when I need work with text. Other thing that I appreciate are the layout's modes, there are moments that I should inspect my documents very quick, and the layouts helps in that moment. #### Cons I feel it is important to keep fewer options to make the experience more enjoyable. The distribution of buttons makes me as a user, it takes time to look for the functionality I need. So, is my point of view. --- ### Nice interface, easy to use, best Acrobat Pro alternative and works perfectly on linux !!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used other for unspecified - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Compatibility (multi-platform perfectly) Simplicity at use, even with large choice of tasks Efficiency #### Cons No video inserts or managing like we can find in Acrobat Pro No way to add keyboard shortcuts (like most of other applications unfortunately) Poor options to customize interface --- ### A great pdf alternative - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Oil & Energy - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros PDF Studio is easy to use as a pdf reader and editor. The free version let me read, annotate and fill in forms, which was great. If you need to create and edit pdf documents, you have to buy one of the licences. I think is a great alternative to other more expensive pdf editors. #### Cons I am able to use the free version but it adds a watermark. Otherwise nothing much to complaint about it. --- ### Considered to be one of the good one available now - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Anoopkumar M. - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Easiness to work with PDF files and effective time utilisation #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The interface simplicity and functional easiness. Since I was using a lot more pdf applications i found them difficult in few of the area which i use regularly. However, this app is a kind of one which reduced the difficulty. #### Cons However the interface simplicity and functional easiness still exist, conversion to most of the routine formats are I think is lacking in it --- ### Switching from Adobe Acrobat Pro - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mike C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: November 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros No subscription. Easily deployed to multiple computers. #### Cons I'm still learning. Need to know more about command line switches for installing, upgrading, registering, uninstalling, unregistering, etc. --- ### Comprehensive, efficient, available on Linux - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: STEPHANE P. - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered All the needed tools for editing PDF on Linux #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros All tools available on Linux - it seems to be the only real tool for the platform. Everything can be done on PDF. #### Cons Only that the free version adds a watermark - but that's fair enough! --- ### PDF Studio 2019- solid choice for Linux users, researchers, who want a cross-platform solution. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ray A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. PDF Studio is reliable tool for annotating PDFs. It is fast, easy to use, has a good UI that allows users to switch between the tradition menu bar and a ribbon bar. I use it daily for reducing the size of PDFs and converting them to png image formats for distribution. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is truly cross-platform- I used it on my Linux, Windows, and Apple systems without any problem. Its one of the few PDF editors for Linux. It's easy to use- the menu is well designed and its much easier to find the tools I need than Adobe Acrobat with its convoluted odd menu system. It has reliable OCR built into the software and good tools for optimizing PDFs (reducing size) and for saving as image files (jpeg, png, tiff, etc). #### Cons It cannot open dynamic XFA forms, but considering that most non-Adobe PDF editors can't read them, its not unusual. Dynamic XFA forms are uncommon PDF forms render drawing and layout information. Even Adobe products don't properly support them. Unfortunately, our office used these forms regularly. #### Reasons for choosing PDF Studio PDF Studio was the first to offer a native Linux version. The developer, Qoppa Software responds very quickly to all requests, bug reports, and suggestions. Support is outstanding. --- ### Professional Top-notch PDF Studio - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: John M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered PDF Studio has become an integral part of our daily routine, enabling us to quickly and easily read all of the relevant data science notes. It has everything you need to read PDFs and Word documents before sending them off to be processed by other businesses. With its help, the drawings are annotated. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Create PDFs from Word documents, images, and scanned documents with the help of PDF Studio. In my experience using it on a regular basis, it is more than adequate for the PDF-related tasks you describe. Marking up your drawings is a breeze, and you can lock all comments so that nobody but you can make changes to them. In addition, the vault function is useful. This program can be accessed from any device with an internet connection, including phones, tablets, laptops, and even Whatsapp and email. #### Cons The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't come with every watermark header and footer needed for construction drawings. I've done a ton of work on this that PDF-XChange can't. We believe the prices are reasonable all around. --- ### Does not work on Mac Studio M1 Pro - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Kev E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Environmental Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I used it daily for years and then upon upgrading last year it continually disappoints. Since I had used it for a long time and spent a lot of time and effort with customer support to try and get the 2022 version running properly, I figured that the 2023 offering would have fixed all the issues that I had highlighted to the Quoppa people, but no, it's exactly the same. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great feature set. Adn ability to use scaled drawings and measurements #### Cons Back in 2012 (PDF Studio 12) it was fully reliable, but the recent iterations (2022 and 2023) do not work on Mac Studio M1 Max computer. Simple copy / paste errors, can't delete some annotations, print to JPG often misses some annotations, so exported jpg's are incomplete, can't re-order objects (send to back or bring to front does not work) #### Reasons for choosing PDF Studio Price --- ### Complete PDF editing suite - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anil P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. PDF Studio has a user-friendly design and is the finest alternative to Adobe Acrobat. It is quick, simple to use, and has a nice user interface. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is the best PDF editor and converter available with a low-cost perpetual license. It have optical character recognition capabilities. The best thing is that it is cross-platform and works flawlessly on Linux, Windows, and Macbooks. #### Cons I've never had any big issues using PDF Studio. However, the OCR tool did not always recognize the text. --- ### One of the best pdf editors for Linux - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nikolaos Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Market Research - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 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 company we need to use the same tools over different operating systems for security purposes and also for a universal approach to the solutions we provide. However, we have user machines running in windows and remote servers running Linux. As far as I know this is the best PDF solutions that runs smoothly across different OS platforms. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros PDF Studio enables editing in Mac and most importantly Linux OS. It is much cheaper that Adobe Acrobat and has quality signing options. It has optical character recognition features even for non OCR documents. #### Cons I have never encountered any serious problems with PDF Studio and never wanted to do something that this editor couldn't do. In my opinion, what could be done differently is reduce the RAM and CPU consumption of this software. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/ocr/pdf-studio-profile/reviews/?page=2) ---