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Wondershare PDFelement

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What is Wondershare PDFelement?

PDFelement is a document management solution from Wondershare Software headquartered in China.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

AI-powered support for chatting with PDFs/summaring/proofreading/rewriting/explaining/translating the PDF file content.
file conversion to and from PDF format in high quality.
PDF generation, which can be done from images, Word documents, and various formats, including batch create.
certificate-based legal signatures, and documents can be sent to bulk signers, and signatures collected and tracked from anywhere, on any device.
text recognition, from scanned PDFs and images.
the PDF text editor, with images, forms, and pages.
PDF protection from copying, editing, printing and viewing with passwords, to keep sensitive data confidential.
efficient data entry with fillable PDF forms. Batch modify form field properties supported.

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Reviews

What users are saying about Wondershare PDFelement.
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PDFelement: a good experience

Luca Gervini
Safet in Professional Services at CRAB (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The programme has all the functionality of standard acrobat and with it you can edit any PDFit is also possible to create complex editable PDFs and, above all, to collect data from a series of PDFs for analysis using calculation tools, such as exceloverall, it is a very good programme, with the only flaw of not having a totally intuitive interface.On the other hand, however, it has a MUCH more affordable cost.

Pros

  • modify PDF
  • combine PDF
  • export PDF in CSV format

Cons

  • interface intuitiveness

Most Important Features

  • Merge pdf
  • extracting data from editable pdf
  • perform textual recognition of pdf

Return on Investment

  • very positive

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued), TeamViewer

Intuitive, powerful, and affordable!

khan yashView profile
Accountant at Private (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using PDFelement Pro for over three years and am quite pleased with it. The layout is really user-friendly, and the functions are ideal for my requirements! I use PDFelement to read and create PDFs, edit and fill out PDF forms, convert files to multiple formats, and secure and sign PDF documents.

Pros

  • Extract data into a variety of other formats
  • Convert PDF files to different file formats
  • Fill in PDF forms and sign PDF documents

Cons

  • It could provide customizable choices to convert an image to a PDF file.

Most Important Features

  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Data extraction from PDF files

Return on Investment

  • Editing tools are effective
  • Perpetual plan saves cash

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Other Software Used

Filmora

PdfElement review after using it for few months.

Incentivized
Mayur KakadeView profile
Software Developer in Engineering at For Freelance and Personal Use (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using wondershare products for a longer time. It's always been a great experience. Always up to date products. We always get new features, they really listen to our queries and requests. Customer support is always looking towards customer satisfaction. For pdfElement, there are a lot of features but I would like to mention only which I use the most. 1. can do basic operations on pdf such as combine/merge/split/edit and much more. 2. OCR option is present. 3. can create some documents for e.g. resume templets are given. I use this app mostly for digital signatures. Overall great experience with PDFelement.

Pros

  • Digitally signing a pdf.
  • Creates Pdf from scratch or templates.
  • Converts pdf into various other formats like word, Image, ppt.
  • Can annotate, comment pdfs.
  • Add watermark, edit existing pdfs.

Cons

  • While drawing a sign could add smoothening to drawing.
  • UI is great but few options are difficult to find like drawing a sign in it.
  • IOS app is there but android app would be cherry on the cake.

Most Important Features

  • Digital signature.
  • Watermark.
  • Templates.

Return on Investment

  • It reduced time taken for signing pdfs, hence improved efficiency.
  • Can secure our docs , its now more secure sharing pdfs.
  • Don't need to find files always. most recent files are at one click. so again time is saved.

Other Software Used

Filmora, Wondershare EdrawMax, Recoverit

PDFelement is not a full Acrobat Writer Replacement

Incentivized
Hermann FreyView profile
Contract Manager at Private (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • It is cheaper compared to Acrobat

Cons

  • Form fill quite often does not work, even with forms provided by governments and authorities; I suspect compatibility with Acrobat PDF is not ensured
  • Simple signature is not possible since there is no function to place a signature behind text
  • Password removal is not possible; this is an optional extra program offered for $20
  • Editable text created by OCR--this feature practically cannot be used, as it distorts the whole text and changes fonts; the document will look different afterward
  • Copy shortcut CTRL INS/SHFT INS is not working--need to use mouse
  • The old version was slow in loading; after a patch update they suddenly blocked my perpetual license; it was the weekend and I needed it urgently, so I paid for a new version 8 license.
  • In order to use all features of the license, you need to log in as a user.

Return on Investment

  • I can use it for basic merging or deleting of pages
  • Signatures and editing are tricky
  • I need another program for password removal; lucky I have a simple app for that on my iPad

Other Software Used

Nitro Productivity Suite

Great experience, great product, great support, more than enough!

Juan Pablo MontesView profile
Strategic Manager in Research & Development at Media 360 (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Correct separation of text and images.
  • Conversion of documents to office formats.
  • Size reduction of documents.
  • Page extraction to image format.

Cons

  • Sometimes when writing text, its format changes. Example: when using capital letters, etc.

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact. PDFelement is one of my principal tools for the visualization and editing of any kind of PDF documents.
  • Size optimization of documents is also a very good tool, it helps me to send presentations in an adequate size, especially for top customers.

Other Software Used

LibreOffice, Zoom

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