PDF-XChange PRO bundles a full-featured PDF editor, a batch processing toolkit, and a virtual printer into one Windows suite, giving professionals a single workspace to create, edit, convert, secure, and automate PDF documents.
PDF-XChange PRO is a Windows bundle that merges three applications into one licence: PDF-XChange Editor Plus for hands-on document work, PDF-Tools for batch automation, and PDF-XChange Standard for virtual printing. A typical workflow starts in the Editor, where you open a file, correct base text and images, drop in comments or form fields, and prepare it for distribution. When the same operation must run across dozens or hundreds of files, PDF-Tools takes over with ready-made tools, custom action sequences, and folder monitors that watch hot directories. The virtual printer covers everything else, turning output from almost any Windows program into a PDF. Together they carry a document through its whole lifecycle, from capture and OCR to editing, signing, and archiving.
Buying the three applications together is what most organisations do, because it keeps one vendor, one activation, and one support path. Advanced SharePoint integration, for instance, is reserved for PDF-XChange PRO licences, so documents in a corporate library can be opened, edited, and saved without leaving the application. Skills transfer between components as well: the action library behind PDF-Tools is the same engine that drives many editor commands, so a custom tool you build once stays familiar everywhere. Lightweight viewers, including a fast browser build such as Microsoft Edge Dev, are perfectly adequate for reading, but they stop short of editing base content, running batch OCR, or applying certified signatures to a finished file.
The clearest benefit is consolidation. One purchase, one interface, and one shared set of preferences cover editing, batch processing, and PDF creation, which removes the friction of shuffling files between unrelated programs that each expect a different workflow. Because PDF-XChange PRO ships with an enhanced OCR engine, scanned paper and image-only PDFs stop being dead weight in an archive and become searchable, editable material. Automation is the second advantage: folder monitors and reusable tools let recurring jobs such as splitting incoming invoices, watermarking draft proposals, or stamping dates run unattended, freeing people for work that actually needs judgement. Security carries equal weight, since password protection, permission controls, permanent redaction, and PAdES-compliant digital signatures help teams meet internal and regulatory standards without buying an add-on. Output also stays consistent across mixed source material, whether that material began as an Office document, a technical drawing, or a web page.
Change the underlying text, images, fonts, and page objects of a PDF rather than layering a patch on top. Sentences can be reflowed, logos swapped, and page geometry adjusted so the corrected file still looks like an original document instead of a marked-up copy.
Turn scanned pages and image-only PDFs into searchable, selectable text, and optionally rebuild the page so its wording can be edited. Language packs let multilingual archives stay usable, which matters most when compliance or research work depends on finding a phrase inside thousands of scanned pages.
Build interactive forms with text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown lists, and calculation logic, or convert a flat form into a digital one. Completed entries can be collected, summarised, flattened, or exported, so paper-based intake processes can move online without specialised form software.
Apply visible or invisible digital signatures, verify whether a document has been altered since signing, and add timestamps for a durable audit trail. Certification options let an author lock specific content while still allowing colleagues to fill in designated fields.
Run any of the built-in tools across entire folders of files, or assemble your own sequence from a large actions library and save it for reuse. Folder monitors trigger that sequence automatically whenever a new file arrives, which suits high-volume routines like splitting, merging, optimising, or archiving incoming documents.
Print from practically any Windows application to a virtual printer that produces compact, industry-standard PDF files. A hybrid conversion engine and mixed raster content support keep size down while preserving quality, and Office integration adds clickable tables of contents and working hyperlinks.
Permanently strip sensitive content instead of covering it with a black box, then lock the result with passwords, encryption, and granular printing or copying permissions. This keeps confidential material out of shared files while leaving the rest of the document fully readable.
Check and repair documents against international accessibility standards, adding tags, alternative text, and reading order so screen readers can interpret the file. Organisations with public-sector or procurement obligations can therefore publish compliant PDFs without a separate remediation tool.
It is a bundle that combines three separate applications under one licence: PDF-XChange Editor Plus for interactive viewing and editing, PDF-Tools for batch creation and manipulation, and PDF-XChange Standard, the virtual printer that generates PDFs from other programs. Licensing them together also unlocks advanced SharePoint integration that the individual applications do not offer on their own.
The Editor handles opening, annotating, editing, and signing documents. The PRO bundle adds the batch automation of PDF-Tools and the virtual printing of PDF-XChange Standard, plus the SharePoint features reserved for PRO licences. If your work is mostly single files, the Editor is enough; if you process folders of documents, the bundle is the practical choice.
Yes. The enhanced OCR engine recognises text in scanned pages and image-only PDFs, producing a searchable text layer that can also be edited. Additional language packs extend recognition to non-English documents, which is useful for archives and research collections that mix languages and paper sources.
It applies PAdES-compliant digital signatures and can verify whether a signed document has been modified since signing. You can sign visibly or invisibly, add a timestamp, and certify a file so that later readers may fill in approved fields but cannot change protected content.
Yes, that is what PDF-Tools is for. It ships with a large set of ready-made tools and an actions library from which you can build custom sequences, then run them over whole folders. Folder monitors can trigger those sequences automatically as new files appear, so recurring conversions and clean-up jobs happen with no manual effort.
Yes. You can author interactive forms from scratch or convert an existing flat form into a digital one, adding text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, and calculation logic. Submitted data can then be exported, summarised, or flattened into a final version for records.
Redaction removes the underlying text and image data permanently, so the hidden content cannot be recovered by copying, searching, or extracting the page. Drawing a black rectangle only hides information visually. Once redacted, the document can also be encrypted and given restricted permissions for printing, copying, or editing.
Yes. Office files can be converted to PDF in a single step, and the virtual printer includes an Office add-in that adds clickable tables of contents and embedded URL support. This makes it straightforward to produce linked, navigable PDFs from Word documents without post-processing them by hand.
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