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Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document lifecycle workflow.Benefits…
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- Undo and Redo Actions (7)9.292%
- Merge or Split PDFs (7)9.090%
- Page Management (7)8.484%
- Convert to Different Formats (7)8.484%
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$179
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What is Tungsten Power PDF?
Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document lifecycle workflow.
Benefits to Power PDF users:
- Ease of Use: Works like Office desktop products, so it's easier to learn
- Compatibility: Works across devices and platforms, share documents in a storage cloud
- Security: Built-in features to protect information & compare documents to monitor tampering
- Search: "Fuzzy Search" provides a Google-like search
- Speed & Accuracy: Accurate & speedy when converting PDFs to/from Word, Excel, and other popular formats
- e-Signature Integration: Sign & send PDF documents for signature via SignDoc or other 3rd party platforms
- Redact Sensitive Information: Automatically detect & redact words and expressions for safe, secure document sharing
- Create Interactive PDF Forms with a Single Click: Convert a flat, image-based PDF form into one that users can complete electronically
- Formatting: PDF/A-4 Format to ensure retention all of the newest PDF features
- Collaboration: Review, markup and revise PDFs with annotations, mark-up and stamps
Power PDF Advanced, Standard and Mac are individual, buy-once-own-forever licenses for desktop or laptop. Power PDF Enterprise volume licensing is available for more than 5 users, with a single admin, server installation, and other collaborative features for teams.
Free trials for all desktop and network Power PDF products available here.
Tungsten Power PDF Features
- Supported: Ease of use: Office-style interface optimized for Windows 11 as well as Mac OS 12.0 Monterey.
- Supported: Flexibility: Create, edit and convert PDF files to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, and HTML
- Supported: No Subscription Fees: Buy once and own the features forever. Flexible term-pricing available for Enterprise customers.
- Supported: Keeps PDFs Secure: Secure encrypted passwords and permissions, as well as redact sensitive info and private metadata.
- Supported: PDF Editing Anywhere: Mobile support for iOS and Android users to read, annotate, markup, sign, and share PDFs.
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Tungsten Power PDF Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac, Citrix, Microsoft App-V and Windows Server network deployment (for Power PDF Volume License only) |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Languages | English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean (Mac supports English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese) |
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Tungsten Power PDF starts at $129.
Adobe Acrobat, Nitro Productivity Suite, and Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) are common alternatives for Tungsten Power PDF.
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The most common users of Tungsten Power PDF are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
Tungsten Power PDF Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 45% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 35% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 15% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 5% |
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August 17, 2023
Kofax Power PDF Review
We use it for converting documents into PDF for secure sending and also use it to convert PDF documents into Excel & Word for quick adjustments.
- Great quality in Printing PDF Great conversions from PDF into other Office documents.
- Merging documents into one PDF is really helpful.
- Lining up the editing of text on a PDF could be better.
- Different font options on editing would be awesome.
- Would like a better way to add a signature (the stamp i use shows that it is a cut and paste)
- Definitely helps efficiency.
- Ability to reduce size of document is helpful.
- Very user friendly
I have used it for years (used to be Nuance). I tried others before and were not user friendly.
Can't remember - tried so many online converters and they were time consuming and not efficient.
The ability to edit a document is really helpful. Combining documents is great. Converting to another format for editing is EXTREMELY helpful
5
General Manager of Luxury resort, general useage, Accountant, sending out secure financial information, Sales Manager, creating flyers for sales drives. Front Desk for issuing guest invoices on check out.Combining large documents. Creating forms for both employees and guests to complete with the the correct information. Converting documents to word and also editing text in documents. All this is possible for our employees to work with secure documents.
5
Management level, understanding of conversions and security of documents
- Printing Invoices
- Converting sales documents to email
- Creating forms
- Securing documents
- Creating a secure signature
- Reordering converted documents
- Creating unique forms
- It currently meets all our needs.
Yes
Adobe - too complicated and too expensive for business features compared to Kofax
Ease of use
Ensure ease of use first, price comes second
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Learning to purchase the right software for the skill level of the employees
- Small download issue - quickly resolved
Never needed it.
Have not needed support other than assistance in downloading a new version on one occasion. Fast response. Completely satisfied.
- Printing to PDF
- Converting a PDF to word or Excel
- Creating forms needs a little more skill to build than other functions
Yes
Works fine for me
July 21, 2023
Positive review of Advanced PDF
I use it to store, process, and send documents. I use it in most dmm sensitive documents and legal documents so if I have to send legal contract I always scan it then store it in pdf for retrieval. I also work on modifying pdfs for instance when I have to store a document.
- Modify pdfs.
- Store pdf.
- Send pdfs.
- Read pdfs others send me.
- The help function is limited.
- Its transfer to Word is wonky.
- The menu [isn't] intuitive.
- Title savings for certain.
- Less storage needed.
- Connectivity with other users, everyone can read PDFs.
It is terribly complicated and not intuitive. I like the functions but I often hunt for what I need. I do like how I can arrange a document page, and adding pages to documents. For me I see the benefit out weighing the complexity however I think it could be much better if someone would work on making it more intuitive.
I have not used other Kofax software. However Kofax Power PDF is far more useful than the Xerox PDF. I suggest the menu system and help functions be improved, the jewels system is virtually non existent. Again it is much too complicated. I suggest improvements in making help more intuitive.
I like that I can assemble documents. I take a large document as a PDF and I can insert or delete pages. I can see the assembly happen in real time. I hate inserting pages in Word. It is so confusing to insert a chart or graph but with advanced PDF it is simple.
1
Just me, I am owner and chief cook and bottle washer.
one man shop here
- It is useable
- I am pretarined
- It interfaces with office 365
- I have lots of PDF's
- Ii do not know about innovative but I maintain a library of over 1000 PDF's for my references in EndNote.
- Ithink I could store all word documents and spreadsheets as PDF files
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Prior Experience with the Product
I would not. I have been with Nuance products forever, I just kept using it
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- learning curve
- help sucks
- No Training
Yes it was very intuitive.
Honestly I use it straight out of the package. But one thing I wish I had done is change my work directory for saving to a common one on the same work directory as where I do most of my work. It would have been more convenient
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Again I changed my work director to the same drive as where I normally work. It was a simple to step process. Find the directory and then set it.
No - we have not done any custom code
No, it is so versatile that I cannot imagine the number of configurations one might have.
No, I am a one man shop
No
Yes when I had to decide if I was going to upgrade to 4.2 the agent said look this is a minor upgrade unless you intend to use the upgrade do not purchase it. I really appreciated the information
- editing in PDF, if you can find the menu item
- all of them,, I do not find the presentation logical or intuitive
- help sucks
Yes, but I don't use it
- word
- excell
I find it able to save and read word and excel files. It could not be easier.
- endnote
They do and do not. I can load PDF's into endnote but that is as far a it goes I think.
- File import/export
none that i can think of
I cannot think of other integration possibilities.
I bought it straight off the shelf.
nope, I suggest just buying it and going forward
Yes
no down time, maybe a total of 15 minutes
- none really it is just up to date and I know it is secure
- staying up to date
No
No
June 14, 2023
Power PDF Advanced - Economical, efficient and easy!
We use Kofax PDF Advanced in our real estate conveyancing department of our law firm. It is useful to professionally amend or correct typos and other errors.
- Affordable alternative to Adobe with most of the functionality.
- Clean interface.
- Decent help options.
- Intuitive interface.
- Would appreciate more user customization of buttons and ribbons to suit my usage.
- Huge upgrade over manual scanning and editing of documents.
Fairly straightforward and user friendly interface. Some advanced features would benefit if linked to tutorials.
Power PDF contains most of the same features as Adobe and other competitors but with a more reasonable price point.
The comment and advance features section are my most used features.
2
One owner, and one administrative staff member.
All support is from the program's help feature or from online.
- Creating legal documents
- Amending legal documents
- Formatting and sending professional quality PDFs
- Make a PDF searchable and editable as if in Word
- Replace some of the capabilities of Word
Yes
Adobe Reader. The full version of Adobe is expensive for small businesses and Kofax offers almost the same menu of options at a fraction of the price.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Price was the most important factor. I hate subscriptions as they are "death by a million cuts". Sell me a copy and get out of my way.
Won't change a thing.
- Implemented in-house
No
- Two week window from date of purchase to install on up to two computers
- No Training
Most features were fairly intuitive and the help section is good.
No. Never purchased support and never asked for it.
No
Never requested and never received support.
- Using the typewriter function and the paste over function
- Converting to Word
No
January 04, 2022
A tool for briefs
Sole practitioner using for single user. The product is used to assist in creating, managing and manipulating legal briefs using its various functions.
- Combining pdfs.
- Document signing.
- OCR both English and foreign language.
- Improved annotation functions/usability.
- Cross platform use.
- Time saving.
- Paper saving.
- One-off fee (positive).
Basic functions work very well.
I have not found annotation function particularly user friendly and thus have not moved to work fully within the ecosystem.
I often find myself wishing I could have it on my iPad and computer so that same functions available across platforms.
Stacks up very well and much more cost effective.
Combine, bookmark, ocr, measuring and bates numbering functions all useful.
1
Barrister
- Pdf review
- Pdf conversion
- Pdf compilation
- Measurement
- Measurement
- Bates numbering
- Document creation
Yes
Adobe Acrobat
- Price
Lack of monthly/annual subscription was decisive.
Remain the same.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- None
No
No
No
- Combine pdf
- Archive email
- Ocr
No
June 18, 2021
Power PDF is a Must Have Software
After spending $1400 for a competitive product suite, I learned about the Kofax (formerly Nuance) products. I found these products as good as the competition, at the time. Subsequently, the developments have made Kofax Power PDF easier to use and less obtrusive when using computer resources. The latest version of Power PDF has become my first stop for all scanning and document processing requirements. Combining pages and documents, scanning new documents, an converting file types are all ways in which this product improves productivity!
- Scan new documents...open Power PDF, select new scan...DONE!
- Cut pages from one document...either remove pages...move a page to another document...or re-arrange order of pages...it all is 20 seconds and DONE!
- Turn a scanned form into a fillable form.
- Make a PDF document searchable, one button and DONE!
- There is nothing that I would suggest for improvement.
- I have saved several thousand dollars after replacing Adobe with Power PDF.
- The speed of using Power PDF over any other PDF viewer or converter is about one third faster.
- I no longer use online converters or documents that can not be save to my computer, thanks to Power PDF.
The time to familiarize and use Power PDF is less than ten minutes. If you can think what you want, there is a command in the task bar...even new users should review the command options in the taskbar before beginning.
No contest...ease of use, cost, powerful, flexible...Power PDF excels!
2
Research and office management
1
Being a long time user, support is intuitive. This product is powerful, but menus are easy to understand.
- Creating forms
- Converting scanned documents
- saving protected documents
- Removing unwanted information from a document
- Reliably signing a document
- Adding pages to scanned files
- Better OCR of scanned images
- Replace a scanner software
Yes
Adobe Suite
- Prior Experience with the Product
I need Power PDF to operate my business!
No, this was the best decision I made, nearly 20 years ago.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Functioned better than Adobe
- no training
Yes, if you are familiar with any other powerful PDF software, you can immediately begin using Power PDF
No
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
No
I have never used support, only Help or Q&A. I don't find purchased support is helpful, and shouldn't be necessary. (It might even cause me to re-evaluate my software if I need to buy a support contract.)
No
By not needing support, I find this is exceptional and why I am a dedicated customer!
- Scan
- Convert
- Edit
- Nothing
Yes, but I don't use it