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Tungsten Power PDF
Formerly Kofax Power PDF / Nuance

Overview

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…

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Popular Features

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  • Undo and Redo Actions (7)
    9.2
    92%
  • Merge or Split PDFs (7)
    9.0
    90%
  • Page Management (7)
    8.4
    84%
  • Convert to Different Formats (7)
    8.4
    84%

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User Review: Kofax Power PDF Works As A Convenient Solution For PDF Compilation
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Pricing

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Power PDF Standard

$129

On Premise
one-time fee per license

Power PDF Standard for Mac

$129

On Premise
one-time fee per license

Power PDF Advanced

$179

On Premise
one-time fee per license

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $129 one-time fee per license
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Features

PDF Editors

PDF editors give users the tools and capabilities to manage and edit PDF documents.

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Avg 8.9
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Product Details

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.

Tungsten Power PDF Screenshots

Screenshot of The PDF Create Assistant can be used to create multiple PDFs at the same time from a variety of source formats. Create individual PDFs, or combine into one PDF package.Screenshot of PDF Profiles can be created to apply commonly desired settings to new PDF documents that you create in Power PDF.Screenshot of Users may choose to change the application's color to purple, blue, light gray or dark gray.Screenshot of Some lightweight document automation can also be achieved with the Watched Folder and Sequence features.Screenshot of Packages can be signed with pre built templates using Kofax Sign Doc or other integrating e-signersScreenshot of PDFs can be navigated with a thumbnail viewScreenshot of the application's Office-like look and feelScreenshot of PDF to Word conversion, and vice versa, can be carried out

Tungsten Power PDF Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac, Citrix, Microsoft App-V and Windows Server network deployment (for Power PDF Volume License only)
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesEnglish, 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)

Frequently Asked Questions

Tungsten Power PDF starts at $129.

Adobe Acrobat, Nitro Productivity Suite, and Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) are common alternatives for Tungsten Power PDF.

Reviewers rate Comment and Review Tools highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Tungsten Power PDF are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

Tungsten Power PDF Customer Size Distribution

Consumers45%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)35%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)15%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)5%
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have found this much easier to use and more cost-effective than Adobe PDF writers. Tungsten Power PDF has helped us tremendously in our work efficiency. This is the perfect solution for small to medium businesses who don't want to spend the annual fees for Adobe Acrobat Reader with the same functionality. It is easy to use. All of our staff was able to easily transition to Tungsten Power PDF with ease. The program is intuitive. We purchase our licenses from a third-party vendor for software. It is extremely easy for us to transfer a license to a new employee when one leaves.
Robert Wert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tungsten Power PDF is a cost-effective, highly capable, feature-rich tool for creating, editing, and commenting on PDF files, as well as converting PDFs into other formats for editing. As both a business leader and in-house counsel, it's a tool I use daily. It saves me significant time in my work which frees me up to add value elsewhere in the business.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Power PDF Pro daily! We have been using this software since it was called Nuance PDF, then Kofax PDF, and now Tungsten. It works intuitively, always does what you expect, and offers versatility and security for working with PDF files. I have tried to use alternatives a few times to see what's available, but I always come running back!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Tungsten Power PDF for all aspects of pdf documents, including converting to and from pdf, saving as pdf, and editing pdf documents. It allows us to seamlessly create pdfs and to convert pdf documents to word or other formats. It also allows for revisions and edits to pdf directly in the pdf documents, e-signatures, redactions, imposing security, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm a small business VAR and I've worked with Power PDF since the Nuance days. I have tried other products along the way, both paid (Nitro, Adobe, etc) and free, both for myself and for clients, but I keep coming back to Power PDF due to its performance, and intuitive interface. I see the least amount of usage challenges from clients with the Power PDF product.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
sometimes our graphic agency send us some pdf of promotional product or brochure or something like that, we have the need of edit these pdf files, to add some graphic, to modify text and to add or edit price. Tungsten Power PDF helps us to reach our goal without spending an high amount of money
Jim Duvall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is not really "accounting", but there wasn't a proper designation for regulatory services or "other" to choose from. However, I deal mostly with accounting and IT interfacing with our MSP. Therefore, I am very often receiving invoices, sending invoices, printing addendums to files, etc. I love the Power PDF printer option. As I mentioned, often, the need is to add a pdf print of a file. If I use the Power PDF print option, I can slide the printed document into a current PDF as an addendum or as the front copy. This saves me tons of time. The other use that some of our team use Kofax to do, is open items that are secure - e.g., catalogs and other secured documents (not all, of course!). But, being in the regulatory field and needing to extract pages of information to be included in a 510(k) submission, this feature is very helpful.
Ricardo G Lopes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it for legal documents as well as business forms for different industries and also help my attorneys when they need some limited scale OCR. I also do translations, so I use it for export translated documents. One of the best features is to print documents in PDF when the original is protected, and the same judicial branch asks a non-protected hard copy, so you can file a copy of a petition. I use the software to add comments and editing to help the review by other parties. Object editing is another area where the product helps to remove non-focus areas, so it remains only the focused ones.
Jennifer Wilson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PDFs are often used to share business documents such as contracts, reports, invoices, and presentations because they can be easily sent, received, and viewed on a variety of devices and operating systems without requiring additional software. The PDF forms can be filled out electronically, which saves time and reduces errors compared to paper forms, which is a must for my company. We use Kofax for PDF printing because of the high-quality printing to ensure that the document will look the same on all printers, regardless of the printer’s capabilities. This is extremely important when it comes to required Real Estate documents and lender documents. Having the ability to electronically fill out documents, saves time and reduces errors for our company.
Heather Graham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Kofax Power PDF in multiple ways - when I have a Word doc I PDF it. I use it for inserting and deleting pages in an existing PDF, I use it to take a PDF into a Word or Excel document. It is one program I truly feel I could not be without. For one thing, I work constantly with PDF documents because I live in a very small space so every piece of paper I need to keep, I need to PDF.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kofax Power PDF to create our proposals, contracts, reports, and other business related documents. Many of our reports have text, pictures, and diagrams. Being able to make edits on the go is great. All of our employees use it daily and PDF's are sent regularly to our customers and vendors as well as receive PDF's from them.
September 05, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Creation, editing and management of PDF documents and forms which ensures that the documents/files are platform and OS agnostic and will always appear as intended by the document creator. Redaction, flattening and password protection / encryption ensure that sensitive content, including visible signatures cannot be misappropriated or used fraudulently. Creation of versatile and dynamic electronic forms also supports efficient and economic operations.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my opinion, works pretty much like the Adobe product. Sometimes a little more complicated because Adobe tries to get it uninstalled and most software tries to work with the Adobe product, but your product has a better interface than the Adobe product.
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