PDF Assist
Description:
Fully featured PDF manipulation tool
Features:
- Redaction – Secure redaction of content from PDF files, including automatic marking of common areas such as NI Numbers, UTR tax references, phone numbers and dates. Selected content is completely removed not just masked or hidden with a black rectangle unlike some other products!
- Annotation – Highlight, underline, strikethrough, free hand drawing, shapes (line, rectangle, ellipse etc), stamps and sticky notes
- Merge / Split – Split existing PDF every x pages. Merge multiple PDF files into one PDF file
- Mark – Add custom or pre-defined watermark to all pages
- Convert – Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, Image, TIFF to PDF. Convert PDF to image. Extract all text from PDF. Perform OCR on scanned PDF or image to convert it into editable text
- Protect – Encrypt PDF files and decide whether to allow printing, modification or extraction of text. Unprotect existing PDF files
- Portfolio – Create a PDF Portfolio containing multiple file formats including Images, Word, Excel and Text files – all of which remain in original file format and appear as tiles down side of PDF document
- Tools – Get document information. Check files for corruption and fix where possible. Compress existing PDF files by optimizing images, fonts, page content and removing metadata information
- Touch / stylus support
- Settings allow you to choose whether PDF Assist starts in redaction mode or annotation mode, and also allows you to enable/disable automatic marking for redaction and to choose which areas are marked automatically
- All documents created and modified by the tool will have author information added which will consist of the name of the currently logged on user, which is useful for auditing purposes
- Thumbnail views
- Rotate, rearrange and delete pages
- Form filling
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Product Trial:
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All features are fully functional in trial mode with the following limitations:
• All saved files will include a trial version watermark
• Redacted content will display trial version overlay
• Printing is disabled
Price:
£20 per user/computer
Discounts are available for multiple licenses - please contact me for further details
Email support and minor updates are included in price

Version History:
12/12/19 | v1.6.2 | Initial public release |
19/12/19 | v1.6.3 | Miscellaneous improvements to licensing system |
04/02/20 | v1.6.4 | Added option to set default font size and colour for annotations Miscellaneous bug fixes |
22/04/20 | v1.6.5 | Added ability to convert PDF to a multi-page TIFF file Now shows currently open document name in window title and when minimized Various miscellaneous fixes and performance improvements |
28/05/20 | v1.6.6 | Miscellaneous bug fixes Improvements in handling of existing annotations created using other PDF software |
30/06/20 | v1.6.7 | Various bug fixes Improved handling of corrupt and password protected PDF files |
20/07/20 | v1.6.8 | Bug fix for annotation issue with some existing documents |
08/09/20 | v1.7 | New "First Run Wizard" to guide you in choosing default mode e.g. Redact or Annotate Improvements made to the storing and loading of user settings so they are maintained after installing updates New settings added for default zoom mode Extensive code refactoring to improve performance and error handling Dependencies updated to latest versions User Guide updated with new features and usage tips Now runs as 64-bit on all supported 64-bit OS to improve performance and memory handling |
26/10/20 | v1.7.1 | Improvements made to Word, Excel and PowerPoint to PDF conversion |
05/02/21 | v1.8 | Update handling improved New improved error reporting and handling implemented Further improvements to Word to PDF conversion You can now browse for and add custom stamps to a PDF All underlying components updated to latest versions User Guide updated |
17/03/21 | v1.8.1 | Close button added to toolbar for Annotate and Redact Fixes for PDF Merge when encountering a corrupt document Various other code improvements to fix recent errors / issues found |
25/05/21 | v1.8.2 | Ink eraser tool added to easily erase unwanted parts of free hand drawings / annotations Word to PDF conversion enhanced - now handles custom shapes Numerous internal updates and bug fixes All underlying components updated to latest versions |
01/07/21 | v1.8.3 | Improvements to Word / PowerPoint to PDF conversion for styles and multicolumn layouts Cloud shape annotation added |
27/08/21 | v1.8.4 | Fully functional trial version released - adds watermarks to all output Various code improvements and bug fixes |
04/10/21 | v1.8.5 | Core components updated Annotations can now be locked to prevent modification Performance improvements at higher zoom percentages Word to PDF conversion now preserves all comments |
06/04/22 | v1.8.6 | Fixed issue with Merge/Split detection of corrupt documents Core components updated Performance improvements - page renders 70% faster - search 90% faster Fix PDF now resolves more complex document corruption issues |