Excellent product. Especially for the price. User-friendly format and layout. Excellent functionality.
September 28, 2018
Excellent product. Especially for the price. User-friendly format and layout. Excellent functionality.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with PDFelement
I handle legal for a private investment company, that invest in non-performing mortgages. We have a lot of foreclosure, bankruptcy and loss mitigation; and therefore have to draft and create a lot of documents. I've used a few Acrobat alternatives in my career. This is by the far the best for the money, and maybe the best all around; next to maybe Nuance, which is WAY more expensive. It does everything you could need it to, from; watermarks to OCR (even on a copy of a copy of a copy of a 1980s fax). You can add text boxes, convert to OCR and find and replace words in documents, about anything you can think of and all for a super cheap price.
I highly recommend it to anyone, on any level. It's SUPER easy to use and has a format and look, similar to Microsoft Word...which you can also convert PDF into Word and Excel.
Great tool to have if you are drafting documents or just need to edit one.
I highly recommend it to anyone, on any level. It's SUPER easy to use and has a format and look, similar to Microsoft Word...which you can also convert PDF into Word and Excel.
Great tool to have if you are drafting documents or just need to edit one.
Pros
- OCR on a document that is a copy, of a copy, of a copy of a 1980s fax copy...
- Convert to Word or Excel and it's fully editable. It's literally, a PDF playground.
- The ability to find and replace words in a document.
- Ability to scan a document, turn it into Word, edit and convert back and it is SO CLEAN.
- Easily combine PDFs; you can have two PDFS open, open the page panel on the left, grab one page and drag it to the other PDF, and put in the exact spot you want it in.
- Delete and extract pages
- You can even add images and text boxes to an already existing PDF.
- Bates stamping, watermarks, add headers and footers
Cons
- I honestly can't think of anything off the top of my head.
- Efficiency. Time is money.
- This will save me thousands of man hours, from having to chop things up and sew them back together.
- Less stressful work environment. Seriously...this makes things SOOOO easy and efficient.
Just as good, and just as clean; but easier to use. Just as many options and an easy to use format and layout.
Using PDFelement
1 - Document production and drafting.
1 - Entry level. Super user friendly.
- Editing
- Drafting
- Combining
- OCR on documents that are copies of copies from the 80s.
- Add Images and Text to existing documents
- Convert from pdf to excell, ppt, etc...
- Editing
- Converting
- Combining large files
Evaluating PDFelement and Competitors
Yes - PDF Plus
Lack of function. Hard to use.
Lack of function. Hard to use.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
By far the best bang for the buck, but it's functionality, format and layout are so familiar and easy to use since it basically shadows "Word", which everyone knows a little.
No need to. Nailed it.
PDFelement Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal - Again, just so easy.
- None
- Nada
- Super Easy
PDFelement Training
- Self-taught
Yes. Yes. Super easy Word style layout and format.
Configuring PDFelement
No. Super easy Word style layout and format.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
Nothing was needed.
PDFelement Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No - Pretty tech savvy and have onsite IT.
I would love to, but I've never needed it. It's super easy to use and has always worked fine.
Using PDFelement
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- OCR
- Converting to any of 10 different formats; word, excel, powerpoint, image, text, html, etc..
- Combining, extracting and deleting files and pages.
- Nothing
- Nada
- Super easy
Yes - Not sure, haven't used it, but if it's anything like the PC version, it's gotta be great.
PDFelement Reliability
Integrating PDFelement
- None
Set up of the program, was super easy.
- No.
Yes.
- File import/export
Office
Pay, download, activate and start working.
Relationship with PDFelement
$90 single user
You get a slight discount for multi users, but not much.
Upgrading PDFelement
Yes - Excellent, and more functions at no extra cost.
- Efficiency
- Ease of use
- Added functions
- Nothing, everything was fine before, but now there's more.
Yes - From Trial to Professional. I didn't even need all 30 days. Pulled the trigger after the first two documents I edited.
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