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What is Smallpdf?

Made in Switzerland, Smallpdf is a company that offers a suite of document management tools for everyone-for work, for home, for life. Founded in Switzerland in 2013, Smallpdf provides what they describe as a simple, secure, and reliable answer to the world's PDF challenges. Smallpdf boasts serving over a billion users in 24 different languages since 2013, and in every country in the world.

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My Review of Smallpdf - Great tool to use

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DILIP JAIN
Software Engineer in Engineering at WedVyah (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Smallpdf is the online PaaS (Platform as a service) tool that is used to convert multiple images into a single pdf, perform some edits on the PDF files, and convert multiple files formats into the PDF. If we check this around on the business side we use the Small pdf to covert the multiple pages into a single pdf, convert different file formats into pdf like HTML, JPEG, PNG, EXCEL, WORD, and many more. It gives us the ability to convert images into the pdf in just a click also SmallPDF provides the API service as well that we can use to integrate it on the other platforms.

Pros

  • Convert multiple images to single pdf.
  • Convert different file format to pdf.
  • Perform edits on the PDF online.
  • Easy to use and implement.
  • Can use the other services as well for the excel, ppt, doc and other formats.
  • Merging multiple pdfs into single one.
  • Use the tool on the fly.

Cons

  • SmallPDF should give the free trial access for the students to implement and play around it.
  • SmallPDF should not be only around PDF it should cover all the other fields as well.
  • Small pdf should work on building its brand value like this is a tool for all the important and handy tools to be used for multiple applications like pdf, excel, JPEG, PNG, ppt, word, and many more.

Most Important Features

  • Editing PDF files
  • Converting multiple images to single pdf
  • Using small pdf to convert multiple file formats into the pdf
  • Use other tools available on small pdf

Return on Investment

  • Smallpdf has a positive impact because I can see it is now day to day used by colleges, students, or in the education industry to merge multiple images into a single file.
  • Small PDF has multiple competitors in the market like iLovePDF and many more.
  • Smallpdf has one good impact is that they have created the application for the mobile devices as well.

Alternatives Considered

iLovePDF, PDFelement and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Other Software Used

iLovePDF, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, EasePDF, Foxit PDF SDK

It's only Smallpdf by the name! It can perform quite big!

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Abraham Smythe
Head of Acquisition in Sales at Adonmo (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Smallpdf is a lightweight online PDF application equipped with all the basic functionalities of PDF solutions. Users can use the software without downloading and installing the software. Among the tasks you can perform on this platform are converting, merging, compressing, and splitting PDF files. Smallpdf does not have the robust capabilities of its desktop counterparts. This PDF tool is created with the users’ convenience in mind. Hence, it’s capable of doing all basic PDF-related jobs entirely online. The application’s free version is already a robust PDF tool capable of all the basic PDF functionalities that users would need. It also offers integration support with other applications such as Dropbox and Google Drive, which will provide more dynamic, seamless, and smooth PDF processes.

Pros

  • Esignature
  • Compress
  • Convert
  • Edit pdf

Cons

  • Editing pdf
  • Selection of big docs
  • Trial period

Most Important Features

  • Compress
  • ESign
  • Convert
  • Edit

Return on Investment

  • Work done on the go.
  • No need additional software.
  • No need to eat up space on you device.
  • Web based platform.

Alternatives Considered

iLovePDF, Adobe Acrobat Sign and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, iLovePDF, Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom)

Excellent tool to convert word documents into Pdf

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Dr. ROOPESH RAOView profile
Head Industry Institute Initiatives/Training and placement officer in Customer Service at Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Smallpdf is an excellent tool to convert your word file to pdf and pdf to word. It helps in compressing data, storing data, converting JPEGs into pdf, excel into pdf, etc. We are able to extract and manipulate data, store and retrieve data according to the need and wants. We are able to showcase data in the exact form and convert it, compress it, split them, merge them, etc.

Pros

  • Convert word to PDF
  • Convert Pdf to word
  • Compress file
  • Split files
  • Merge files

Cons

  • Converting pdf to word, some formatting is disturbed.
  • While merging files, file size becomes large.
  • While compressing files, picture quality gets disturbed.
  • Some data is lost while converting the files.

Most Important Features

  • Convert word to pdf
  • Convert pdf to word
  • Convert jpg to pdf
  • Split pdf
  • Merge pdf

Return on Investment

  • Data extraction
  • Data manipulation
  • Data conversion
  • Data storage

Alternatives Considered

iLovePDF, SysTools PDF Tools and Soda PDF

Other Software Used

iLovePDF, EasePDF, Foxit PDF SDK

A platform where you can do anything with your file(Lock, merge, split, unlock, convert to word,eSign)

Incentivized
Ankit KumarView profile
Sr UI UX Designer in Product Management at Dxminds technology pvt lts (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have to unlock some pdfs and convert some word files to pdf. I need to give some security to my pdf documents. I convert my pdf into word or word to pdf. easy to use just upload. I don't use any other software or app.

Pros

  • Convert PDF to word. You can edit the pdf.
  • You can lock/unlock the pdf. You can secure your pdf with a password.
  • Whenever i need to merge or split the pdf use small pdf.
  • Whenever I have to compress the pdf size I just use a small pdf and it reduces the document size from MB to KB.

Cons

  • It has everything I'm not sure what I will say. E-sign, Share, convert. You can give an option in upload priorities features which I can see later.
  • Background remover thing also you can add in it. So I can remove the unnecessary thing from an image.
  • You can add a chatbot for help.

Most Important Features

  • Protect the pdf and share it public and private.
  • Sharing a documents with colleagues.
  • Merge and split the pdf.
  • Converting word to pdf.

Return on Investment

  • It is quite easy and simple. Time saver, easy to access.
  • I would say there is no cons I have observed in Smallpdf.
  • The best thing is that it has multiple features on your finger. You can do what you want with your documents (merge, split. lock, unlock, design, etc).

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), iLovePDF

Smallpdf is awesome!!

Rachel Walters
Director of Financial Operations in Finance and Accounting at GayTravel (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SmallPdf is an awesome tool that our whole entire team uses! It is super awesome and we use it all the time to merge pdfs, convert images to pdfs, compress pdfs, and more. Most of us within the organization use this tool.

Pros

  • Converting PDFs and images to PDFs
  • Compressing PDFs
  • Merging PDFs. or deleting pages from a PDF

Cons

  • The edit PDF tool could definitely use some work.
  • Esignature for PDF could be better.
  • Ads on the page can get annoying.

Most Important Features

  • PDF merging
  • Converting images to PDF
  • Converting PDF to word

Return on Investment

  • Helped us save valuable time.
  • Does not cost too much
  • additional time means less cost and being able to focus on revenue generation
  • saved us money from having to purchase more saas products

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