Introduction > Welcome

Welcome to FreePDF! You have purchased an application that enables you to view, annotate and edit PDF files quickly and conveniently.

Note: FreePDF is the free version of the commercial product SoftMaker FlexiPDF and comes with limited functionality. Features that are not available in the free version are marked with a red box like this one.

Some features of FreePDF:

▪Easy to use via the modern ribbon user interface

▪Arrange pages – reorder and delete pages

▪Insert pages from other PDF files

▪Find text with the integrated search feature

▪Insert comments or highlight text with a colored Text highlight tool or mark them with a stamp such as "Approved!"

▪Insert images and drawings into PDF files as desired

... and some more!

Additional features in FlexiPDF

FlexiPDF is the commercial version of FreePDF and offers many additional features:

▪Edit existing text in PDF files – across paragraphs, columns and pages

▪Find and replace – for fonts and colors in addition to text

▪Scan pictures and pages and save them as a PDF

▪Optical character recognition (OCR) converts pages from a scanner into editable PDF files

▪Insert blank pages

▪Combine multiple PDF files into a single file

▪Splitting PDFs into multiple documents with a specified page number

▪Integrated multilingual spell check

▪Automatic translation of entire PDF pages to many languages (in FlexiPDF NX Universal only)

▪Track changes shows you all your edits highlighted in color

▪Side-by-side comparison – compare two PDFs side by side and scroll through them synchronously

▪Redact confidential content

▪Snapshot tool which you can use to photograph and save a section of a PDF page

▪Pictures can be edited directly from FlexiPDF in an external graphics program. FlexiPDF then automatically reloads the edited picture.

▪Create interactive forms

▪Page numbering, headers and footers, watermarks

▪Export PDF files - to the output formats Word, TextMaker, ePUB, PDF/A

For a detailed comparison between FreePDF and FlexiPDF, click here.