Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vs. Tungsten Power PDF

It does everything I need it to do, but it costs less than Adobe Acrobat Pro. Adobe may have more features, but I don’t need all the extra functionality. Power PDF Advanced's functionality is still very robust. Specifically, I've redacted PDFs, made PDFs searchable, password-protected PDFs, edited text in a PDF, extracted pages, inserted pages, signed PDFs, and sent a PDF securely via email. I can’t really think of any scenarios where it is less appropriate than Adobe Acrobat.

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• Enable to modify all aspects of PDFs: metadata, page operations, text manipulation, form fields.
• Enable to include JavaScript in order to build reactive PDFs.
• Offer a wide variety of automation and bulk operation options.
• Offer the possibility to sign and certify with trutsted identity providers like DocuSign.

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• I would love to be able to text search with regular expressions (or a similar pattern system). It would make it a lot easier to find specific things in really big documents. And I don't always want to jump to the first search result -- I'd like to.
• I'd like to allow more editing in my form fields, and also to be able to easily align them with non-dynamic text in the document (so I can have a form that says "signed on [date] at [place]" where date and place are fields that become part of the text.
• I want more / more customizable dynamic stamps. E.g., one that says "paid" with a timestamp that I can set to a specific time.
• For some reason it's really hard to crop pages / adjust page size.
• It would be great if it could understand what footnotes are.

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Tungsten Power PDF is easy to use, the staff all like it, and there are no issues with it on any level. It is a more cost-effective solution to our PDF needs than other products currently available on the market. This product works as intended and it fits our business needs perfectly.

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I found it easy to learn and observe that my colleagues also pick it up quickly when they get a license. I've been somewhat involved in training users on the various features, and I find that it's very intuitive compared to some of the other software that my organization uses.

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Other that a PDF partially disappearing if left up for a long period of time - no issues. (If you close it and reopen it, it is all there. We have some PDFs that are 400-600 pages long.)

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Pages nearly always load at the expected rapid speed. Some documents that print quickly from Adobe Reader print much more slowly from Power PDF. I have never generated a report - that's a feature I didn't know existed until now and do not know what it's for

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In my experience, Tungsten Power PDF support is difficult to engage with. Like many other software companies, the people and/or AI being used by Tungsten Power PDF support rely on canned responses that have absolutely nothing to do with the problem or that do not fully or properly address the question or problem. Trying to get a live human to actually interact with and provide actual, helpful support has been, in my experience, nearly impossible and is like pulling teeth!

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I did not get training from any representative of TrustRadius or from the company from whom TrustRadius acquired the product. I got an in-person overview of the 2018 version of the product from my predecessor who was about to retire from the job I now hold. He did not go into very many of the features and probably only knew about the ones he used most frequently. I gained additional knowledge from the help files, from online searches, and from just fiddling with the product. There's nothing like learning by doing

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We watched the training videos and tested out the features and functionality side by side. Some features are not used on a regular basis is it is convenient to go back and review training on that particular functionality when needed.

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It was simple and we were using the program the same day. It was as easy as downloading the program and getting in there and playing around. We felt comfortable with it within the first few hours of use.

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Our
organisation previously relied on another PDF tool which on many occasions
struggled to process voluminous bundles of information i.e. 200 pages and
above, causing the software to stop responding if attempting to process a
document over 80 pages. However, with Tungsten Power PDF, we have never
encountered such issues, even with documents as large as 500 pages.

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Not really familiar since I'm the only person who uses it. But in the past it has been my understanding that Power PDF was offered only on a single-license basis, so it's been expensive for me to use it at home and at work because I had to pay for it on my own. In my current position management supports it so I at least only have to pay for it once.

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• Administrative time spent on document management and preparation has decreased by about 15%.
• Occasionally, software crashes, and unsaved work is lost when working with large PDF files.
• Flat-fee lump-sum pricing has saved us roughly $50 per month after the original purchase price of the software licenses was recouped.

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