The Best Adobe Acrobat Alternative

Say goodbye to the difficulties of changing the content of PDF files and say hello to Soda PDF's easy-to-use editing features. Soda PDF makes editing any PDF text a breeze. With our Edit tool, you can modify the content of any PDF for good. Simpler to use than Adobe Acrobat because our software works just like a Microsoft Word processor, Soda PDF has all the tools you need to modify the content of any document to your requirements. Add, remove, or edit text and images from your PDF document or change the font type, size, and style with ease. You can even insert, reorder, move, delete, and extract pages of your PDF. Plus, you can even use our Split tool to split PDFs into multiple documents or use measurement tools such as the ruler and grid features to keep all properties of your document properly structured.

Much like our PDF editor, our Insert tool will help you organize and manage your document needs. Insert page numbers, headers, footers, links, and images to your files. Our easy-to-use software will also allow you to clip, crop, and alter the resolution of any image included within your document. Add watermarks to your document by including them in the background of each page. Plus, with our Bates numbering feature, you can easily index and identify legal documents quicker and easier than before, allowing for simpler workflows through the rapid integration of data.

Create standard professional PDFs with our easy-to-use program that functions better than Adobe Acrobat. Make PDFs from blank or from a variety of file formats including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image files, from the Print menu of any app or directly from a scanner. You can even batch create multiple PDFs in one click or open a list of various file types and combine them into one singular PDF by using our merge tool. Unlike some editors, Soda PDF has all the creative tools you would ever want or need. Soda PDF gives you the ability to get creative and make PDFs from scratch or just about any file and our Create tool is available via desktop or our online service.

Soda PDF makes converting your files to and from PDFs simple. Convert Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to PDFs and also from PDF files in a few clicks. Turn URLs or HTML files into editable PDFs in seconds. Archive your PDFs by transforming those files into the PDF/A format. Soda PDF even also allows users to batch convert a plethora of various file formats at once.

Combine your documents easier and faster than you would with Adobe Acrobat. Use Soda PDF's Merge tool to combine various file formats together into one single PDF. Merge Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML or image files all into one PDF and review your newly merged document within the Soda PDF interface. You can then select a range of pages to extract, delete, split or reorder your document to your needs. Our merge tool is available on our desktop application, through the web or as a mobile app, allowing you to easily merge files from anywhere using your device and cloud storage service of choice.

Wouldn't you agree that file size limitations are frustrating? Well, with Soda PDF's compress tool, you can easily reduce your documents to optimal file size for sharing or transferring your PDF documents. You can also adjust your file compression for Print, Office or Email or Web quality, allowing you to avoid being Please note that depending on which quality of compression you select, images, attachments, or bookmarks might not be saved within your PDF document but your file will still be viewed and read as intended without a loss of file quality.

Use Soda PDF's secure & sign feature to ensure your PDFs are always in safe hands. Secure your PDFs through password protection or by setting and controlling permissions directly within your document. Create your own digital signatures and add them to your document or manage digital signatures directly within your PDF. Remove digital signatures within your document to continue to edit your file, or use our co-signing support tool to add previously signed digital signatures back into your document. Our Secure & Sign feature also has a search & redact tool used to black out sensitive information from your PDF, allowing you to easily secure confidential information in seconds.

Use a PDF to create forms or custom invoices or even open your form PDF files within our software to easily fill out any form fields. Import or export form data in seconds. With Soda PDF, you can control and format your form's fields by adding text, checkboxes, percentages, currency symbols, zip or postal codes, phone, or social security numbers with our easy-to-use tools. By having our form feature at your fingertips, you can calculate the sum of values within these text fields or combo boxes, allowing you to get through a plethora of forms faster and with little to no effort. You can even insert scripts or buttons like Submit, Email, or Print for more efficiency within your forms. Get to the bottom line quicker and make smarter business decisions (like choosing Soda PDF over Adobe Acrobat) based on the data you've collected.

Use our Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool to quickly recognize text within image files. With OCR, you can say goodbye to retyping documents. Simply take a picture of the document or page and upload the file into Soda PDF will automatically recognize text within your image, allowing you to edit the text with ease. Our OCR feature also allows you to manually select the areas of an image that you want to identify text. You can use automatic or manual OCR from any document. You can also use OCR to scan & recognize text within an image directly from your scanner. You can also use OCR from an external image, allowing you to easily recognize and identify text within image files for editing purposes.

Signing documents no longer requires everyone to be in the same room or even under the same roof. Keep a safe distance between people and paper by using Soda PDF's E-Sign feature to sign contracts or invoices electronically. Create, prepare, and e-sign your PDFs to collect legally binding electronic signatures from anywhere. With E-Sign, you can set the signing order and send your package to signees remotely as well as keep tabs on the status of signatures or send reminders to your signees directly through your Soda PDF application. Plus, your recipients don't need to have a Soda PDF application or account in order to e-sign these documents, they can simply add their electronic signatures via email.