Item: Tungsten Power PDF
Rating: 10
Author: Roger Lander

Overall Satisfaction with Kofax Power PDF (formerly Nuance)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it for my office and personal document development and processing. I have recommended it to a few others at my university and within my department. It helps me be able to work easily with forms produced on other .pdf programs and I am able to store the majority of my documents in this format by using its strong capabilities to convert other software outputs to the pdf format.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Multitude of conversion capabilities back and forth between pdf and other software formats.
The ability to make many kinds of edits to pdf documents; both those created by this program or other pdf software.
I particularly like its excellent rate of 'effective' conversions of other document types.
Created computer files from my previously 'paper only' stored documents.

Cons

I would like to see improved ability to edit 'graphic' images within my scanned documents.
I would like to have an even more enhanced ability to add notes or annotations to graphic areas of documents.
Significant progress has been made to the OCR capability of the software, but more would be helpful.

Return on Investment

I think it has helped me be more efficient, although I have not 'objectively measured' this.
I have been able to assist my colleagues in developing forms or 'flyer' type material at significant cost savings to them.

Ease-of-Use

Well, I have been using it for a number of years now, but at the beginning I found it mostly intuitive. With the online manuals and ways to get support, I have always found a way to do what I expected with the program. This is in contrast to some other products that are standalone type, where it is often difficult to find assistance.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and Adobe After Effects

I have generally found Power PDF to be easier to learn how to use, and more powerful in its capabilities, then either of the programs listed above. So, I have stuck with it over time. Because the program has been steadily improved over time, it has continued to satisfy my needs as I have gradually relied on it in more sophisticated ways coincident with my learning.

Support Rating

My rating would be higher but I just have not had that many occasions where I have had to pursue customer support. I have not experienced any technical glitches with the program itself (installation, startup, registration, use) in quite some time now.

Key Insights

Do you think Tungsten Power PDF delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Tungsten Power PDF's feature set?

Yes

Did Tungsten Power PDF live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Tungsten Power PDF go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Tungsten Power PDF again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Chrome Remote Desktop, Zoom

Features

PDF reading and editing of documents. Search capabilities. Editing mostly text based documents. Putting together multiple documents into one. When I wish to extract a section of document, it seamlessly maintains its formatting characteristics, which is very useful in my teaching. I can copy a graphic from an article, paste it to a ppt slide within a presentation, add citations and attributions easily. This is very useful in teaching to be able to amalgamate materials from a variety of sources. Avoids manual 'cutting and pasting,' scanning multiple sources physically to get them into one document, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe it to be a very capable document 'editor' for the price point of the software. In Adobe PDF family, for example, the price point there is pretty steep for a product that has the editing, form production, and other capabilities similar to Power PDF. This makes it very usable for a group of collaborators.

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