Friday, 12 July 2013

9 Best Free PDF Editors

There are many ways you can edit a PDF file, and that’s without using Adobe’s Acrobat software. In this article we will see various methods by which we can easily edit a PDF document with the help free PDF editors.

Editing a PDF is not only confined to changes in text, but we can also change the format, layout of elements inside a PDF. For example – if an image is aligned at the top left corner and we want to change its location than with simple drag and drop features we can move the image from top left to top center.
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Free PDF Editors

All the editors below have some basic run down steps, when it comes to usage. Mostly have a common way to upload the file and edit in a drag and drop or double-clicking on text.

PDFEscape.com

Its one of the most popular online tools which enables us to edit a PDF file by simply uploading. One more advanced feature of PDFEscape is that it also give you option to edit a password protected PDF file.

BeCyPDFMetaEdit

With an option of editing metadata this windows software is really a gem, it helps PDF files to be searched on google search with metadata, which is really essential if you have uploaded it for public use.

PDFOnline

Another really useful tool which enables you to convert a PDF file into a word document. PDFToword also does the same. By doing this you will be able to edit the file in word and then converting them back into a PDF file.

Foxit Reader

This is a best reader and editor which are free, fast and it lets you edit the text of any PDF. Its one of my favorite tool.

PDFedit

Hosted by sourceforge, this software is easy to us and it enables you to edit the raw PDF objects with many GUI functions.

PDFtotext

A simple enough online service where you can convert the PDF to text, just upload and enter your email, where you will get the converted document in minutes.

PDF-XChange

For OCR image based PDF files which you are looking to edit can be done with the help of this software.

Inkscape

Although its a an free vector drawing tool but it also has capabilities to export and import PDF files.

OpenOffice Draw

It has a extension for PDF import which let users to change the format and adds support to shapes, images, annotations etc.
Let us know, if you have more tools or programs which can edit a PDF file easily. We will be adding it to our list.

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