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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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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.
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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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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.
- Editing of PDFs
- Creating forms
- Completing contracts
- Lining up the text you are inserting is sometimes tedious
- I have not encountered any other issues myself with the software
April 15, 2024
Power PDF - it allows you to edit PDFs
We use Power PDF as our primary PDF editor across our business. It is used to put together pdfs from multiple sources as enclosures for the reports that we write as well as the pdf printer to print our documents to pdf.
- Edits PDFs
- Prints PDFs
- Converts documents to PDF
- UI Overall - only the colour has changed over the years
- Performance improvements - optimising / editing large PDFs can get slow
- Thumbnails flash as you scroll down. These should pre-load and stay loaded.
April 14, 2024
A Full Function Time Saving Tool
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.
- Comment on PDFs
- Convert documents in other formats to PDF and vice versa
- Create fillable PDF forms from static PDFs
- A simpler interface, perhaps a "lite" view
- Lower cost for wider in-house distribution
April 09, 2024
Best alternative solution ever!
We used it for converting the AutoCAD drawing to PDF. Abode PDF is way too expensive to use so we moved on to a more economic solution which is Tungsten Power PDF.
April 03, 2024
Tungsten Power PDF Advanced.
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!
- Edit PDF file text.
- Sign/append signatures to PDF files.
- Converts file to/from PDF format.
- Edits orientation of pages and order of pages within a PDF file.
- In the PDF editor, it would be ideal to select your intended target areas a bit more easily.
- When in PDF editor, font usage can be more consistent.
- When converting files from PDF, more consistent output is better.
April 02, 2024
Tungsten Power PDF: A Great PDF Tool
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.
- Conversion to/from pdf
- Editing pdfs
- Saving as pdf
- Redacting pdfs
- importing official signatures into pdfs
- putting security features on pdfs
- layout of ribbon could be more user friendly
- inputting signatures could be a little easier
- text boxes are sometimes glitchy
April 02, 2024
Tungsten/Kofax Power PDF
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.
- interface
- performance
- integration
- the update service tries to sell upgrades - annoying
April 02, 2024
super editing features with top price
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
- reduce file size
- edit pdf
- does not modify the structure
- sharing options can be better
- reduce file size
- add bookmark
January 09, 2024
Kofax hands down winner over other paid PDF programs!
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.
- 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.
December 13, 2023
PDF nightmares? Power PDF can solve them.
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.
- 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.
November 16, 2023
By Far The BEST PDF Program EVER!!!!!
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.
- Document Sharing
- Electronic Signatures
- Fillable Forms
- Document Combining
- Removing existing text from PDF
October 18, 2023
Kofax, a good PDF Option
We use this as a regular pdf tool, to view, edit, and e-sign pdfs.
- 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
We use Kofax for creating PDF's and assisting with creation and modifying quotes.
- 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
We use is exclusively for our PDF needs.
- 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
We have used the Kofax PDF and its predecessor from Nuance for approximately 10 years in our mental health practice. We have found it easy to use for most of our formwork and document management.
- 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.
September 11, 2023
Couldn’t Live Without Kofax Power PDF
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.
- 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
September 08, 2023
Kofax Power PDF has been a great addtion for our company
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.
- 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
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.
- 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
Allows me to apply my signature and custom stamps to pdf documents as well as much more convenient for virtually any pdf editing.
- 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
Work with PDF documents, including review, edit, search, export into MS Word, combine multiple documents, etc.
- 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
Document and file management, numbering, redactions, etc. associated with legal work
- 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
I can easily edit documents and digitally sign.
- editing - signatures - adding pages and more
August 30, 2023
Kofax Power PDF Review
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.
- 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
We use Kofax Power PDF (KPP) for all our PDF needs. It does all the things we need done and hundreds of other tasks beyond what we regularly use. It is intuitive and easy to learn.
- 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
Kofax Power PDF allows us to convert documents from other software to send to our clients safely
- 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