PDFsam Basic 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

PDFsam Basic

4.4

(56)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic is a free and open-source desktop application. It allows users to perform basic PDF file management tasks such as splitting, merging, extracting pages, rotating, and mixing PDF files. This software is designed for casual users who need to work with PDF documents. It is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.

The application offers a range of features to help users manage their PDF files. Users can merge multiple PDF files, split a PDF file at given page numbers or bookmarks, extract pages from PDF files, rotate PDF files, and mix PDF files by taking pages alternatively from one file and the other. These features make PDFsam Basic a versatile tool for those who need to work with PDF documents.

For more advanced PDF editing needs, the company offers two commercial solutions - PDFsam Enhanced and PDFsam Visual. PDFsam Enhanced is a powerful and customizable PDF editor that allows users to edit, convert, insert, review, sign, and secure PDF files. PDFsam Visual is a visual tool that enables users to compose PDF files, reorder pages, delete pages, split, merge, rotate, encrypt, decrypt, extract text, convert to grayscale, and crop PDF files.

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PDFsam Basic Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

PDFsam Basic Features

Popular features found in PDF Editor
Access Controls/Permissions
Electronic Signature
Optical Character Recognition
Rearrange Pages
More features of PDFsam Basic
Collaboration Tools
Convert to PDF
Delete Pages
File Management
Merge/Append Files
Rotate Pages

PDFsam Basic User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

63%

29%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.4

Onur U.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

5001-10000 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

A great tool for PDF Editing

It's free and open source so editing my PDF document without paying price is really good.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's really easy to use on editing PDF documents. I use free trial version and it gives a lot of features even it's free version.

Cons:

I did not experience any problem on this software. Text editing can be added on features for editing texts easily.

Benjamin G.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

Can't Go Wrong for £0

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Completely free, and if you need basic edits to PDF's such as splitting or merging documents it works fine. Doesn't do much more than that, but when it's free you can't really complain.

Cons:

Very limited in what you can do. By no means a replacement for things like Adobe Acrobat. Not a criticism, but if you're looking for something free to replace more pricey software, you won't find it here.

Michael B.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

PDFSAM Enhanced Review

Horrible. Everytime I attempt to use PDFSam Enhanced, I recieve a prompt to upgrade to PDF SAM Enhanced. Since I've already installed PDFSam Enhanced, this prompt merely prevents me from using the product. PDFSam has provided no technical support. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the product. The product still doesn't work. I've requested a full refund for my product, but PDFSAM does not respond my requests. I attempted to login to my account via the PDFSam website, but PDFSam removed the link to login.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nothing. The product doesn't work at all.

Cons:

The PDFSam Enhanced has never worked. For a year, I used PDFSam Basic without any problems. Then I began receiving prompts to upgrade to PDFSam Enhanced. I then started having problems with PDFSam Basic. Finally, in frustration, I upgraded to PDFSam Enhanced. When I try to use PDFSam Basic or PDFSam Enhanced, I continue to receive prompts to upgrade to PDF Sam Enhanced. Now, neither version works at all.

Reasons for choosing PDFsam Basic

Cost.

Nancy A.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

PDFSAM for splitting and merging PDF documents

PDFSAM has been a very helpful tool for me to perform basic functions such as pulling together several documents into one easy to review document, and breaking apart large documents into more manageable pieces.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

PDFSAM is a basic tool for merging together or splitting apart PDF documents. It is very easy to use and understand with no training needed. I work in Risk Management and often need to submit insurance claims. PDFSAM allows me to put together all the pieces as a single document for the claim -- a summary incident report, witness statements, estimates and invoices, police reports, photos, etc. It makes a nice easy to review document -- and this is all the more beneficial when working remotely as has been the case for the past year or so. Furthermore, PDFSAM can break apart large PDF files into smaller pieces that are more conducive to email and can narrow down to just the pages the receiver needs to see.

Cons:

The software does only have a very basic function -- to split and merge PDFs. It would be nice if it could also convert PDFs to Excel.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Low cost pdf tools

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

PDFsam has a lot of handy tools to manage PDF's. The ones I like and use most are merge, separate and rotate. It can also convert into many pdf versions. Not paying for proprietary tools is a great advantage in using this software.

Cons:

The basic version lacks pdf editing tools, and a single feature addition like signing the pdf could make a big improvement for future versions.

Verified

Reviewer

Medical Devices

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

A must have PDF Software

I completely would recommend PDFsam Basic to anyone in college or who works with PDFs on a daily basis.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

PDFsam is a must have on your personal computer if you commonly work with PDFs and don't want to pay for expensive PDF software. With PDFsam you can easily combine and separate PDF files. I love this software and would recommend it to anyone!

Cons:

I do find when I import multiple PDF files into PDFsam it software sometimes scrambles the PDF and then I have to reorganize the files into the correct order.

Verified

Reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

PDFsam

All problems related to pdfs are solved with this application.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This software is just wow. This has become a need for me at office now. You can do anything to a pdf with this software. You can extract a few pages of a pdf, split, merge, crop, rotate, delete pages, edit or create a pdf from images. These are the options that I use the most, but there's more. I love this software.

Cons:

There's nothing that I dislike about this software. I enjoy using this software application very much.

Sooraj S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Much Needfull Apllication for Pdf Merge and Split

I am much delightful in using PDFsamBasic for pdf merging splitting and rotating.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like most is its cross-platform compatibility, since it is build of java it can run on any plat form such as windows , Mac, and Linux. those who wants to split, merge rotate any pdf can confidently use pdfsam Basics. we can test its basic version as free of cost. those who wants to test first use free version and buy for more.

Cons:

its design part is too old. and since it uses old version of java it affects its perfomance

Pasindu U.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used other for free trial

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Best PDF Merger ever

Seperate individual but related documents and reports merging made easy with this one

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Best thing about this is the free pdf merging facility packed along with pdf splitting and much more. This allows us to merge difference pdf files even adding a table of content automatically.

Cons:

Premium software provides custom page deletion , croping and many more editing options

Verified

Reviewer

Government Administration

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Everyone should have this!

Wonderful, I will continue to use this software for the rest of my life. It is a crucial tool to have.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This product is free! This is unbeatable in a space filled with virus-ridden and expensive alternatives. It is also easy to merge and split pdfs. This is great for submitting packages of documents and increasing professionality.

Cons:

Sometimes you have to re-order uploaded documents to merge them in the correct order, but this is a minor inconvenience.

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