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Tungsten Power PDF

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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Recent Reviews

Kofax Power PDF Review

10 out of 10
September 05, 2023
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Creation, editing and management of PDF documents and forms which ensures that the documents/files are platform and OS agnostic and will …
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Kofax Power PDF Review

8 out of 10
September 01, 2023
Incentivized
Allows me to apply my signature and custom stamps to pdf documents as well as much more convenient for virtually any pdf editing.
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Concise

10 out of 10
August 31, 2023
Incentivized
Work with PDF documents, including review, edit, search, export into MS Word, combine multiple documents, etc.
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Kofax Power PDF Review

1 out of 10
August 30, 2023
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In my opinion, works pretty much like the Adobe product. Sometimes a little more complicated because Adobe tries to get it uninstalled and …
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Awards

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Video Reviews

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User Review: Kofax Power PDF Works As A Convenient Solution For PDF Compilation
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Kofax Power PDF Proves To Be a Trusted Tool To Keep The Research Process Moving: User Review
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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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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 Availability highest, with a score of 8.9.

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Jim Duvall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The power PDF printer option allows adding a new document to an existing PDF file.
  • Opens some secure documents that Adobe isn't able to do.
  • Managing newly scanned documents efficiently from the physical scan hardware.
  • Editing text is well done, not that Adobe is bad, but I like how Kofax manages the process better than.
  • Flattening a file is simple.
  • Security features are easy to find and manage.
  • Highlighting seems to always use a dialogue box in conjunction, and that is not needed in every case. Therefore, I feel the option clutters the highlights more than it should.
  • Converting text to "readable" from a .jpg or some other format is a bit more complicated than Adobe's method.
Ricardo G Lopes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Editing Text and Image
  • Adding images
  • Bookmarks management
  • Scanner integration
  • Pages Handling
  • Convert menu and its help are not easy to understand. Trial and error is the workaround.
  • Crop, a pretty simple feature, has a non-intuitive way to perform the crop action. It is not easy to figure out when a crop size applies or not to other pages.
  • Typewriter mode looks like the commentary feature or Text editing. I never used as I could not understand the benefits. Maybe a YouTube video would help.
  • Fill out electronically an existing hardcopy form. It is unclear whether the product does it.
October 18, 2023

Kofax, a good PDF Option

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Typewriter functionality is great, although can take some time to load. This allows you to fill in text wherever applicable without turning the rest of the pdf into editable text.
  • Fast load times
  • Has autogenerated text feature so anything in the pdf can become editable
  • Their e-signature functionality is lacking. One user had a photo of their e-signature which was put onto the document through an e-sign option. To rescale the image, there was a tiny box outline and the corner of the box to resize it would not recognize the mouse hovering over it. This caused a long process of trying to get it to resize the image instead of moving the entire photo. The box which registers the resize needs to be larger so this is not an issue, and one does not have to try to find the "sweet spot" for it to recognize.
September 21, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of Use, employees find it easy like Word to use. Secure, signatures and such are very easy to create and lock down. And stable we have no issues with the install and or updates that were always annoying.
  • Clean up the GUI just a little bit to make them more modern and fluid.
September 13, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I really like the document assembly feature, makes reordering a document easy. Inserting and extracting pages is also very simple process. Kofax integrates very easily with the Microsoft suite.
  • A con would be when inserting pages, I would like it better if you could select a default selection for First or After etc. a check box to keep it consistent when working on repetitive tasks.
September 13, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Martin Bach | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to install and keep updated. 2. User friendly interface. 3. The program is relatively intuitive to use so that new members of the staff catch on very quickly to its use.
  • We can't think of anything that we would change about this program.
Heather Graham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Taking a Word document and putting it into PDF
  • Inserting and deleting pages in a PDF document
  • Taking a PDF document and converting it into Microsoft documents
  • Because it is hard for me to write I am so having a form I need to complete, I simply PDF it, and use the typewriter feature to type in my information
  • Sometimes I find the PDF converter doesn’t work
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Use friendly setup.
  • Having multiple PDF's open at one time.
  • Easily incorporating Microsoft Office.
  • It is a bit tricky to delete pages from the document.
  • The blue theme is nice, but it blends into Word documents.
September 05, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The creation of PDF documents from any application which consistently maintain the appearance of the source. Conversion of documents, including scanned documents to OCR / Searchable documents. Conversion speed and accuracy of the output is outstanding. Robust editing and annotation features including commenting, call-outs, text boxes, adding watermarks, headers/footers, Bates numbering/stamping, highlighting, redactions and other document markup and editing.
  • Some menus are not intuitive. If you are migrating from Acrobat, there is quite an adjustment. Kofax Power PDF sometimes performs sub-optimally when converting PDF files to MS Office/365 files (Export Function). This is especially true if the PDF has tables or columns or other complex or atypical formatting. There are limitations in the ability to create custom, dynamic stamps.
September 01, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is very good at pdf editing. The type feature is extremely handy.
  • The OCR is much better than any competitive products I have tried.
  • The interface could be more intuitive. For example, it took me a while to find signatures under "security" and how to change the default. On the other hand I am now familiar with the interface and prefer less change.
  • The help is ok, but could be improved.
  • The licensing could be more liberal. I have three computers I work from regularly, office, home and laptop, and find the two registrations restrictive. Perhaps a reduced price on a third or additional would help.
August 31, 2023

Concise

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Make PDF searchable
  • editing PDF documents
  • adding and removing pages
  • editing existing test in PDF documents
  • It will be great if the 'typewriter function' can be used concurrently with 'edit the document' function
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use, manipulation of data and organization of files
  • The only thing I don't like about the product is that it doesn't integrate with LEAP Legal Software, which I also use. That is really the only problem.
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 which is fine. Also like that you buy it once and don't continue to pay.
  • Does not work with Lenovo and other laptops that use the Snapdragon (TM) 850 etc. like the Lenovo C630-13Q50 and other companies that use the Snapdragon. When I purchased your product I didn't see that limitations note. I did check with your customer service and I see you have no plans to make it work.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is great for converting PDFs into Word, Excel, etc. There is always some clean-up needed (particularly for footers, footnotes, and page numbers) but it routinely prepares even 100 page documents for quick and easy use in Microsoft products.
  • I don't have specific examples - but only because I've used it so long I can't remember things Adobe did differently. I know it does everything we need at much less cost that Adobe.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Converts other software documents like word & excel Kofax Power PDF has easy to use edit functions. Allows us to combine multiple documents into one file
  • After sale service or information is lacking If you change computers you need to repurchase User guides for advanced use are not available to us
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The product enhances user productivity with its good interface and tools. It simplifies the task for example document conversion, editing, formatting and annotation. 2. It is cost effective with its good pdf capabilities. 3. Useful in create fillable forms, gather data form through submissions.
  • Sometimes there is a compatibility issue with different versions of pdf in terms of features and format are limited. 2. Sometimes customer support could take a while 3. Large pdf file may cause the software to slow down and less responsive.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very fast and accurate PDF creation from many formats. 2. Quick and simple conversions from PDF to many useful formats and vice-versa. 3. Apply scanned signatures to official documents. 4. Apply a Dynamic Stamp to PDF documents. 5. Create Dynamic stamps. 6. Allow multiple open documents on a single screen using tabs. 7. Easily convert photos to PDF documents. 8. "Active Files" dropdown menu makes navigation between several documents simple.
  • The conversion from PDF to Excel (*.xlsx) sometimes requires significant editing. 2. Allowing multiple users (3, 5, etc...) on a single license would be helpful as currently some employees cannot use our company's single license. 3. (Sorry, can't think of anymore Cons)
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Combine different pdf files into one Make header and/or footer with page numbering Edit pdf's (the text etc)
  • When combining pdf's with existing header it is difficult/impossible to keep this if the combined pdf has a different header (this is also issue with Adobe Acrobat). I have yet to encounter any other issues.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Enables me to view pdf's easily and effectively.
  • I can edit pdf's for presentations.
  • It doesn't crash!
  • As with most software, the controls to edit or manipulate documents isn't always intuitive. Partly because I split time between two or three pdf software, but I guess I'm not yet comfortable with it.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adding Text Boxes
  • Password Protecting Files.
  • Making text changes to existing PDF's that were not even created in Kofax Power PDF.
  • No real guidance on usage. I think the program could do so much more than I am using it for, but I don't know what some of the options do, and don't have time to figure them out.
  • Some icons are not universal icons so you have to know what they do, or figure that out.
  • Sometimes converting PDF's to other MS Office programs doesn't go as expected.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Bates stamping, rotating pages, combining pdfs into one file, converting PDFS to searchable documents, rearranging pages, and converting to WORD or EXCEL among others.
  • Lower the price ;), maintain the size of the window at startup as previous files, and improve the conversion of spanish (special characters as ~, ', etc.
August 30, 2023

Kofax Power PDF Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Convert Word-Kofax-Image, convert PDFs to Word or Excel and vise versa, use for documents require e-signature, and much much more - the conversion are smooth and easy every time
  • Allows you to pretty much do anything with a PDF file, the file conversions in both directions are seamless and efficient
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