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…
Power PDF - it allows you to edit PDFs
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super editing features with top price
Kofax hands down winner over other paid PDF programs!
PDF nightmares? Power PDF can solve them.
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The UI is also very "old school" and not up to date with the current offerings from Adobe, Microsoft, Nitro and other makers of PDF editing products.
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Power PDF is a good value solution to the problem of PDF editing. It's not the best, but for users on a budget and are willing to work through a little learning curve, it's a very good …
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Advanced Processing (quick OCR)
Making PDF files searchable
Turning scanned forms into forms I can fill out
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Changing the orientation of individual pages and saving the changes to the original document.
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- Edit and Typewriter Mode.
- PDF Creator.
- PDF Create Assistant.
- PDF Preview, Open and Print.
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Popular Features
- Undo and Redo Actions (7)9.292%
- Merge or Split PDFs (7)9.090%
- Page Management (7)8.484%
- Convert to Different Formats (7)8.484%
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Power PDF Standard
$129
Power PDF Standard for Mac
$129
Power PDF Advanced
$179
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $129 one-time fee per license
Features
PDF Editors
PDF editors give users the tools and capabilities to manage and edit PDF documents.
- 8.3Edit Text and Images(6) Ratings
Users can edit and manipulate text and images within the PDF document.
- 9Merge or Split PDFs(7) Ratings
Allows users to combine multiple PDF files into one document or split a single PDF into separate files.
- 8.8Add Annotations(6) Ratings
Enables users to insert comments, highlights, shapes, and other annotations to provide feedback or mark up the document.
- 8.2Text Recognition (OCR)(5) Ratings
Supports Optical Character Recognition to convert scanned documents or images into editable text.
- 8.4Page Management(7) Ratings
Provides tools to add, delete, reorder, or rotate pages in the PDF document.
- 8.8Form Creation and Editing(6) Ratings
Allows users to create interactive forms within the PDF document or fill out existing form fields.
- 8.8Secure PDFs(6) Ratings
Offers options to password protect PDFs, apply digital signatures, redact sensitive information, or restrict permissions for viewing, editing, or printing.
- 8.4Convert to Different Formats(7) Ratings
Allows users to convert PDFs to popular formats like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or image files.
- 9.3Comment and Review Tools(5) Ratings
Facilitates collaboration by providing tools for commenting, highlighting, and tracking changes within the PDF document.
- 9.2Undo and Redo Actions(7) Ratings
Provides the ability to undo or redo previous actions to correct mistakes or backtrack changes made to the PDF document.
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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 |
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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 Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 45% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 35% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 15% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 5% |
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- 9.7Likelihood to Renew111 ratings
- 8.9Availability13 ratings
- 8.9Performance13 ratings
- 8.9Usability46 ratings
- 8.5Support Rating424 ratings
- 8.2Online Training1 rating
- 3.6In-Person Training1 rating
- 8.7Implementation Rating33 ratings
- 8.5Configurability9 ratings
- 8.7Product Scalability12 ratings
- 8.7Ease of integration10 ratings
- 8.7Vendor pre-sale7 ratings
- 8.7Vendor post-sale7 ratings
Reviews
(276-300 of 582)You won't go back!
- Splits documents
- Re-arrange documents
- Make corrections to documents after created.
Kofax Power PDF WORTH IT!
- Combining documents: Very easy and seamless process.
- Extracting single/multiple pages: Easy to tear apart one large document into several smaller ones.
- Bates Stamping: Easy to add custom Bates stamps.
- Can sometimes be difficult locating correct tool.
Kofax is a must have for businesses, students, everyone!
- Combines documents
- Easy to apply signatures
- I would like to see the esignature support other companies other than docusign.
- I would like to be able to drag a file to merge instead of "opening".
Switching is a Breeze - You Won't Regret It!
- Print / Create / Merge Documents into PDF.
- OCR - Converting Scans to Text.
- Track Changes.
- The software is becoming aesthetically dated.
- Speed loading time (Make it easy to disable background processes that I never really use).
- Work out any existing bugs/glitches.
Oh, so easy to use
- signing documents
- creating pdf from multiple files
- adding additional comments
- a little clearer help menu
I love Kofax Power PDF!
- Easily combine multiple pages into one pdf file
- Insert or Extract pages from an already combined pdf file
- Using the typewriter feature, it is easy to make notes anywhere on a page of a PDF document
- Sometimes the software will lose network connection which can only be reconnected by a restart of the computer.
- It would be nice to be able to change the typewriter settings before beginning to type unless I have overlooked something, you set the default, and then if you want to change that for one time, you can't do it until you click on the page and start to type.
Better than Adobe for a lot less
- OCR
- PDF Editing
- 64bit support
- Line scale measurement
Kofax Power PDF makes large documents easily searchable
- Makes PDFs containing images of text, searchable.
- Allows cut and paste from the PDF into a word document.
- Allows highlighting of key findings within the PDF.
- Sometimes the edit feature segments the PDF document in ways that make cutting and pasting a multi-step process since the entire section cannot be selected at once.
- Making a large document searchable can take 20-30 minutes. It would be great if this was a faster process.
Great features, but disappointing performance.
- Combining multiple files into one PDF is simple.
- Editing (notation) of PDF files is fairly easy and straightforward.
- The ability to add, remove and replace pages in a document is easy & works well.
- Tech support for the ongoing issue I have reported has not been helpful.
- Several users reported that if a file is left open but inactive for 15-20 minutes the pages go blank. This happens with files of all sizes. Tech support has been unable to find a solution and basically said sorry, we can't figure it out, you're on your own.
Kofax Power PDF: All the features, a fraction of the cost.
- OCR
- Combine files
- Annotating pdfs
- Pen input
- Batch conversions
Kofax and Nuance--meet my needs
- Easily create a PDF with multiple pages.
- Easily save your PDF to any file format.
- Integrates with your browser to open files and with Office products.
Good value flexible software
- Combine documents
- Add notes to PDF documents
- Compresses PDF files to reduce storage required and easier emailing
- Nothing in particular
Basic Review
- Converting to Word.
- Redacting
- Scanning and integrating.
- Security, password protection.
- Logo modification.
- Managing changings in a sequence.
- Mobile app would be handy.
Your time is maxed with Kofax Power PDF!
- Document comparison.
- Editing pdf files converted from CAD.
- Measuring dimensions and distances on scaled drawings.
- Adding or editing text - Switching on off from editing mode needs improvement.
- Menus shall be more detailed on helping the individual functions.
A very quality product for small business usage
- Conversions to Microsoft products.
- Quick for adding in signatures as needed.
- Quick editing features.
- Making the load up of the program quicker.
- An easier way to create signatures. Creating a slower mouse when doing the signature.
- Clarifying signature options.
Much better than Acrobat.
- Conversion of PDF documents to other formats (Word, Excel, etc.). This is extremely helpful as we need to edit existing documents that we may not have access to the original file.
- Merging of PDF documents from multiple sources into one document. This utility is used often at our company, especially in our Business Development department when compiling bid documents. In many cases, we have documents that are produced by various users using different file formats and these documents need to be merged into one document per the specifications of the bid.
- Redacting important documents. Our company has many government contracts including federal, state, and local agencies, which includes government buildings and courthouses, military installations, law enforcement locales, transportation systems, etc. In many cases, we need to produce reports that require some of the data to be redacted.
- We would like a better tutorial on the features, sometimes we need to click around to find what we are looking for.
No need to look further; this software is the answer to your prayers
- Merges multiple documents (even if different types) into one PDF document.
- Allows editing and formatting of PDF documents created by others.
- Easily and neatly complete forms without printing them out and doing by hand.
- Sometimes editing text/objects isn't as straightforward as I'd like. For instance, the need to right-click to get to formatting options rather than getting an automatic menu when text or object is selected.
- Some tools aren't where I expect them to be, so I have to waste time hunting them down.
- I recently spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to pull an image in as a new stamp.
- Would love to see a dedicated space for storing scanned signatures.
Kofax Power PDF - Power to the users with little effort
- Creates PDF documents from other software, and reads all PDF's.
- Easily edit text and other objects in PDF documents.
- Re-arranged pages and resizes and rotates pages to make great documentation booklets.
- More graphics capabilities - simple picture editing.
- Better viewer in Outlook email.
Great Forms Editor
- Forms.
- Text box.
- The forms sometimes do more than one line, and I have to delete it and add the lines manually. For example if an address is on 4 lines, it does one box for the 4 lines and they don't line up properly.
- I can't figure out how to edit, say, one line of text.
- Based on how I use it, those two are the only problems I have.
Great PDF Editor for Government Funding
- Creating and adding Bates numbers to discovery documents.
- Creating fill-in-the-blank form templates for colleagues to use.
- Converting other document formats into PDFs.
- Redacting sensitive documents for document productions.
- It takes a long time to load up.
- Make adding text boxes easier to PDF documents.
Good product for the price
- Submittal editing.
- PDF editing.
- Highlighting areas with the mouse rather than selecting square or rectangular areas or words.
Kofax: Intuitive and Simple PDF editing!
- Edit existing PDFs.
- Combining files into a single PDF.
- Mark up and making detailed notes on architectural plans.
- Signing documents with electronic signature.
- More specific fields of edit when in converted mode (instead of program highlighting all fields).
- Better and more robust editing when in editable mode. We find many times Kofax really limits editing to specific places or won't cooperate when you have a block of text highlighted.
- Better and more varied commenting capabilities.
- Ability to scale an architectural drawing (not sure if this is currently possible).
- Ability to SET and save default size when a PDF opens.
- Kofax rocks and does a fantastic job with quick edits (Specific "edit object" work).
- It is wonderful for combining and customizing how pages are combined and compiled in a PDF.
- It does a good job with notating PDFs.
- It does a good job with signing documents electronically.
- At times it is difficult to work with when you are editing a complex document and need many fields to change.
- It seems to lack settings for customizing appearance, like how large you want a PDF to open as a default.
No-brainer. Buy it.
- Bates labeling.
- Apply security and signatures.
- Watermarks.
- Comparing documents.
- Some of the ribbon options are hard to find.
- PDF create is a bit cumbersome to organize.
I appreciate the tabbed version of Kofax compared to the Nuance version and competitors which have multiple applications open.
A good value solution to the problem of PDF editing
Users typically open all PDFs with Power PDF just for reading. Users frequently need to extract parts of PDFs, export to other programs (mostly MS Office) or erase/redact information.
Rarely do users use Power PDF to create documents from scratch. They prefer MS Office apps for creation. Power PDF is usually a PDF reader or their tool to manipulate an existing PDF.
- Open PDF for reading.
- Extracting pages or sections of existing PDF.
- Converting PDFs to other formats.
- Erasing details or redacting sections of PDFs before distribution.
- The UI is poor.
- Users prefer other solutions that they find easier to learn.
- Users want a UI that is more compatible with MS Office apps.
- Conversions to other formats don't often product good results..
- Find a better way to manage licenses. And I do NOT mean a subscription model.
- Please drop the "Kofax". It's just Power PDF. No one cares about who/what Kofax is.
If they have basic PDF editing needs the feel the tools in Power PDF are adequate and are satisfied.
I'm glad that I have a few options to offer users that I manage and Power PDF is one of a few that are good solutions. It is usually the budget choice.
And, usually people ask, "What's Kofax? Drop it. No one knows or cares what Kofax is. The only Kofax I want to know about is a baseball player from the '60s. (and yes, he spells it differently)."
Long term review
- PDF to Word conversion.
- Redactions.
- Email archiving to PDF.
- Web integrations.
- Corporate sales support.