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Best Free PDF Tools

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Introduction

A PDF tool comes in handy when you need to deal with PDF files such as to merge or split pages, add a header, footer or watermark, highlight or annotate PDF documents, or convert from other files to PDFs or vice versa.

In this review, multipurpose programs offering general features for merging PDF files, splitting or re-ordering pages, etc within a single application are discussed under General Tools. Those designed for a more specific task are grouped under Specific Tools.

General Tools - Merge, Split, Reorder & More

PDFill PDF ToolsPDFill PDF Tools is my favorite with its nice, clean user interface covering most  functions, including merge pdf files, split or reorder pages, rotate or crop pdf pages, add headers and footers complete with page numbers, etc.

Watermarks can be added either by typing in some text (such as ‘DRAFT’ for documents to be reviewed), or by inserting a background image in PDF format.

Some additional features are supported, such as encrypt and decrypt with security options; reformat multiple pages into one page; delete, flatten or list PDF form fields; convert PDF to images or vice versa; and convert a PostScript file to PDF.

Note that PDFill PDF Tools comes bundled with PDFill PDF Editor, which is not free. However, you can run PDFill PDF Tools separately after installation. The free software part of the package does not support functions such as converting PDF to text, making annotations, etc. But those features are all available in the Specific Tools listed in the next section.

PDFTK BuilderPDFTK Builder is a useful alternative. The big advantage of PDFTK Builder is that it can merge or reorder selected pages of PDF files at one go, which is much simpler if you have a lot to do.

PDFTK Builder also supports split, rotate, background/stamp and encrypt features. Besides these, it has no other additional features.

It's worth noting that PDFTK Builder lacks a basic function (available in PDFill PDF Tools) for watermarking PDF documents with background text—this can be important if you need to mark your documents as 'Confidential', 'Draft', etc.

jPDF TweakIf your priority is to get the maximum number of features from a single freeware package, then jPDF Tweak will be a good choice. However, its user interface is not as straightforward as in either of the two applications reviewed above. Its merge, split and reorder functions are available under the ‘input’ tab, and a new filename has to be entered in the ‘output’ tab.

This feature rich program allows you to rotate, watermark and format multiple pages. You can change page numbers and chapter bookmarks. And jPDF Tweak also offers encryption functions and lets you add attachments to PDF documents.

Additionally, jPDF Tweak enables you to set viewer preferences and document properties, including title, author, subject and keywords.

PDFsamPDFsam (PDF Split and Merger) is well worth trying if you need to visually re-order or recompose multiple pages of PDF files.

You can mix, merge or extract, split and rotate pages by specifying the page numbers. However, PDFsam also lets you re-organize PDF pages in a thumbnail view. In this mode, you can easily work with thumbnails to merge, delete, rotate or re-order PDF pages and save the results as another PDF file.

Since PDFsam is a Java application, it will run on any operating system that supports Java. The basic version of PDFsam is free for use, while the enhanced version is donationware.

PDF ShufflerFor Linux users, PDF Shuffler should make it much easier for you to re-arrange pages in a pdf document, or merge and split pdf files.

After importing one or more pdf files to PDF Shuffler, the various pages appear as thumbnails, making it easy to merge, re-order or delete. You can right-click a thumbnail to rotate or crop a page before exporting to a new pdf file.

PDFShuffler is a small application running on Linux. Some distros, such as Ubuntu, include PDF Shuffler in the repository for ease of download and setup.

Specific Tools

The free applications reviewed in this section are helpful for their specific functions mostly not covered by the General Tools.

Edit a PDF File

Oracle PDF Import Extension (formerly Sun PDF Import Extension) allows you create a hybrid pdf file with LibreOffice or OpenOffice Writer. A hybrid pdf file is basically a pdf file containing an embedded odf source file. The beauty of this type of file is that not only can it be viewed with a normal PDF viewer, it can also be opened for full text editing with LibreOffice or OpenOffice Writer in 100% layout accuracy. See this article A PDF File Allows Editing in 100% Layout Accuracy for details.

If you need to edit a normal or non-hybrid pdf file, LibreOffice or OpenOffice Draw is one of the free options available. You can use it to edit small portions of text, add or remove images and so on with no layout adjustments.

Convert PDF to Text

FreeOCR.netSome PDF to TXT Converter is a light tool which preserves text and layout while supporting drag and drop, batch conversion and encrypted pdf files. Alternatively, try the latest version of Nitro PDF Reader which gives you an option either to keep text in paragraphs for easy re-alignment, or to break each line to a width of any number of characters of your choice.

FreeOCR.net is a good scan and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program which lets you extract text from scanned PDF documents. Moreover, images from scanned PDF documents can be selected and placed on the clipboard. For an online OCR solution, try Free-OCR.com.

Convert PDF to Word/Excel

Free online conversion is available from Nitro PDF for PDF-to-Word Converter and PDF-to-Excel Converter. Choose the file you need, click the "Convert" button and check your inbox for the converted files.

Convert Various Formats to PDF

7-PDF Maker7-PDF Maker is a powerful tool to convert a wide range of formats to PDF. It can convert to PDF files generated by Word, Excel, Powerpoint, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Maths and AutoCad, and will also convert images, text or web based files. The setup comes with a choice between a Command line version or Windows Explorer integration; the user interface is in English or German (though the website is currently in German only).

If you are using office applications such as LibreOffice or OpenOffice, or word processors such as Jarte, they come with a feature to export files to PDF. Newer versions of Microsoft Office also allow a free add-in for saving documents as PDF.

Whether you choose to use 7-PDF Maker or any of these applications, you should find that clickable hyperlinks and bookmarks are nicely conserved in the converted or exported PDF files, along with the original page layouts.

An alternative approach is to install a virtual PDF printer, such as Bullzip, which will 'print' out PDF files of text or other contents. Note, however, that clickable hyperlinks and bookmarks will not usually be preserved in the resulting PDF file.

i2pdfIf you only need to convert image files to PDF, my favorite would be i2pdf. It works even better than the tool "Convert Images to PDF" included in PDFill PDF Tools. Download and unzip i2pdf and run the executable directly (no installation required). This program is portable and user friendly—just drag and drop the images on the program window, click the "Build PDF" button and it's done. When setting the page output, "paperless" format is a helpful option if you'd like to convert portrait or landscape images to the PDF file and view them on the screen without blank paper margins.

How about converting files to PDF online? 7-PDF Web Portal and many other websites such as kool Converter or Document Converter eXPress also offer online conversion to PDF.

Extract Images from PDF

Some PDF Images Extract is a good choice. You can extract all images from several PDF files by batch or pull images from selected pages in a PDF file. Images can be saved in jpg, bmp, png, tiff, gif or tga formats.

Annotate PDF Documents

PDF-XChange Viewer enables you to annotate PDF documents. It allows a variety of operations, including highlighting, crossing or underlining text; drawing shapes; stamping and filling out PDF forms with a built-in typewriter; insert, edit or rename bookmarks. Unfortunately some advanced features are available only to the paid-for Pro version.

The good news is that now Foxit Reader has made this particular feature, together with most other basic annotating tools, available for free. If you're looking for an alternative, Foxit Reader is definitely a good choice.

For Linux users, Okular is a good try. It supports annotations, highlighting, drawing lines and shapes, adding textboxes and stamps, and selecting and saving part of a document as text or in an image format.

Create and Edit Bookmarks

JPdfBookmarksJPdfBookmarks allows you to create and edit bookmarks on existing PDF files. You can add bookmarks to quick jump to a certain page of PDF documents, point to another PDF file in the file-system or go a website in a browser.

Bookmarks can be easily renamed or edited. To set a bookmark to jump to a certain paragraph in a page—first browse to that paragraph, then right-click a bookmark, select "Set Destination" then "Replace Current". When completed, save the file as a new PDF file and it's all set.

Make Fillable PDF Forms

PDFescape is a helpful web application which lets you create or fill in PDF forms online, straight from your browser, In addition to creating and editing fillable forms, you can also add text, links and sticky notes, draw basic shapes, and whiteout contents. PDF Escape is now entirely free. If you want to save your work and return later you'll need to register.

Crop PDF Pages

Briss is a cross-platform Java application which makes visual cropping of PDF pages much faster and easier. You just load a pdf file, draw one or more rectangles with a mouse to crop the regions you want from a page and then save them as another file. If you load a PDF file with multiple pages, you can see the odd and even numbered pages overlaid and crop them easily in one go.

Set Viewer Preferences and Metadata

BeCyPDFMetaEdit is a good find. It allows you to edit most metadata such as title, subject and author of your PDF files, and customize viewer preferences, slide show page transitions, page labels, etc. Other than the GUI version, it also has a command version for batch processing with parameters explained in the help file supporting most of the application functionality.

"Tweak PDF" is another choice with a simple user interface, but it lacks a slideshow setting and some other features. The program is portable and available for download at Portable Freeware. It has been scanned clean on VirusTotal. (NB: The link to the developer's homepage is not provided here as it has a bad WOT rating upon checking).

Digitally Sign a PDF File

DigiSignerDigiSigner is a useful tool to digitally sign PDF files and verify signatures. This process allows you to ensure that important PDF documents such as invoices and contracts are not tampered with. The application supports smartcards and USB tokens, certificates from Windows key store and standard PFX (Personal Information Exchange) files. Unfortunately, the latest version has turned commercial but the last free version is still available for download at third party websites.

Note: You can easily create a PFX file with a free tool Make PFX by giving the Software Publishing Certificate (SPC) and Private Key (PVK) files and passwords. See also: How to create a self-signed certificate, Create self-signed X.509 certificates in a flash with Self-Cert.

Compare Two PDF Files

DiffPDF is a portable open-source application for you to compare two PDF files and see their differences in words, characters or appearance. To compare PDF files, select two different PDF documents via the File #1 and File #2 buttons then click Compare. You can also save your comparison result as a PDF file. The program runs on multi platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Recover Forgotten Password

Try PDFCrak which runs on Linux or DOS (the version for DOS is available for download here). The only supported usage of this software is to recover passwords and/or content that you own but have lost access to as stated in the FAQ.

Booklet Printing

Gimposition (or Govert's Simple Imposition Tool) allows you to re-order and reformat pages of your PDF document to prepare for booklet printing with a foldmark, 2-up printing with page separation lines, or place two equal copies side by side with cutmarks on a top page. No installation is required, just unzip the download, run the executable. It's straightforward, fast and easy to use. See also this review.

Other Functions

To add attachments to a PDF, try "PDF Bundle" available for download at Softpedia. The program has been scanned clean on VirusTotal. (NB: The link to the developer's homepage is not provided here as it has a bad WOT rating upon checking).

To compress a PDF file, try this portable application Free PDF Compressor (last free version 1.12), or follow this method mentioned in our Freeware Forum.

Others

The following free applications offer particular functions, some of which are available in the main reviews. They were brought up in comments here or noted from other sources. I am listing them here with brief descriptions and links to the related sites for ease of reference.

  • PDFedit, a free PDF editor with GUI interface, allows for complete editing of PDF documents and changing raw PDF objects. It's currently a beta and not easy to use for average users.
  • Sheel Khanna's PDFTools allows users to join multiple PDFs, split or re-arrange a PDF, encrypt or decrypt and stamp a pdf. It also includes a tool to convert XML to a PDF file.
  • Gios PDF Splitter And Merger allows merging and splitting of documents with drag and drop features.
  • GUI for PDFTK Another GUI for the multi-platform PDFTK for merging and splitting pdf files, as well as various other  functions.
  • PdfMerge allows merging and splitting of documents with bookmark import.
  • Free PDF to Word Doc Converter  converts pdf to doc.
  • Free PDF to Word Converter converts pdf to doc or rtf.
  • SpeedPDF Stamp adds an image as watermark.
  • SpeedPDF Page Numberer allows adding page numbers with variable formats.
  • Freeware pdf Unlocker allows removal of PDF restrictions on printing, editing and copying text.
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Quick Selection Guide

PDFill PDF Tools
9
 
Gizmo's Freeware award as the best product in its class!

Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Clean and nice user interface, include most features such as merge, split, reorder, rotate, header and footer with page number, watermark, encrypt and decrypt, convert PDF to images or vice versa, convert PostScript to PDF.
Installer bundles with PDFill PDF Editor which is not free, short of features provided by Specific Tools.
9.0
11.2 MB
32 bit but 64 bit compatible
Unrestricted freeware
There is no portable version of this product available.
Win 98 to Win 7

The software package requires Adobe Reader and GhostScript (10 MB).

PDF Shuffler
8
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Easy to re-order, rotate, crop or remove pages, split or merge pdf files in interactive user interface, small size.
Lacking other features than those mentioned.
0.5
33 KB
Unrestricted freeware
There is no portable version of this product available.
Linux
7-PDF Maker
8
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Converts a wide range of formats to PDF, comes with a Command line version or a Windows Explorer integration.
Provides a tool for conversion to PDF only. The portable version is not freeware.
http://www.7-pdf.de/
http://www.7-pdf.de/
1.3.0
58.98 MB
Unrestricted freeware
Windows

This program supports user interface in English even though the website is currently only available in German.

i2pdf
8
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
User friendly, drag and drop, paperless format to suit viewing on the screen, other various options available.
Designed only for converting images to PDF, no other PDF tools available.
1.0.43
1.0 MB
32 and 64 bit versions available
Unrestricted freeware
This product is portable
Windows XP, Vista, 7
DigiSigner
8
 
Available either as a web service or stand alone program
Digitally sign PDF documents and verify signatures to secure your important documents.
The latest version has turned commercial. Based on ICEpdf viewer and might not be ideal for viewing PDFs in some cases.
http://www.digisigner.com/
3.1 (Last Free Version)
3.5 MB
Feature limited freeware
There is no portable version of this product available.
Windows, Mac OS X or other systems, with Java installed.

The last free version is available at "FreewareFiles Mirror" from the above download link.

PDFTK Builder
7
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Merge and reorder of pages at one go, supports split, rotate, background stamp, encrypt, etc.
Text watermark not support, less features than PDFill PDF Tools.
http://angusj.com/pdftkb/
3.5.3
2 MB
Unrestricted freeware
A portable version of this product is available but not from the developer
Windows 98-Vista
PDFsam
7
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Supports visual organizing and re-ordering PDF pages in addition to the direct page number input.
Visual document composer occasionally encountered some errors.
http://www.pdfsam.org/
2.2.0
13 MB
Unrestricted freeware
There is no portable version of this product available.
Windows, Linux and Mac OS, with Java Runtime Environment
jPDF Tweak
6
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Support merge, split, reorder, rotate, watermark, format multiple pages, change page numbers, encrypt, add attachments, set viewer preference and metadata.
User interface less intuitive.
http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/
0.9
724 KB
Unrestricted freeware
There is no portable version of this product available.
Win 98-XP
FreeOCR.net
6
 
Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Extract text from scanned PDF documents, images from scanned PDF documents can be selected and placed on the clipboard.
Short of other features available to General Tools. During installation, prompting to opt in for other software that you may not need.
http://www.paperfile.net/
http://www.paperfile.net/
4.2
11.08 MB
Unrestricted freeware
There is no portable version of this product available.
Win 2000 to Win 7

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by qasimmgm on 26. April 2013 - 8:10  (107348)
by PaulJRichardson on 25. April 2013 - 11:57  (107326)

FYI: DigiSigner is not freeware as far as I can tell. There is a trial.

by Jojoyee on 25. April 2013 - 13:33  (107328)

Good info PaulJRichardson. Apparently the latest version has turned commercial but you might want to check out the last free version which is still available for download from third party websites. One of them is shown at the Quick Selection Guide.

by stevem109 on 12. April 2013 - 22:19  (107031)

"Some PDF to Word Converter" doesn't seem to be "Unrestricted Freeware"
any more. It converts up to 5 pages followed by a nag screen to Buy/Register.

by Jojoyee on 13. April 2013 - 4:10  (107037)

Thanks for your feedback Stevem109. Sadly the new version has turned nagware with quite limited free features. It's now removed from the list.

by stevem109 on 13. April 2013 - 5:05  (107039)

Found a copy of "Some PDF to Word Converter " 1.0, tried to install it after uninstalling 2.0. Not only does it try to install "Delta Toolbar",
it polls the website for an updated version & starts to download 2.0.

by Fairportfan on 5. March 2013 - 19:01  (105976)

FreeOCR tries to install toolbars and re-direct searches, also wants to sign you up for online storage. I was unable to skip these attempts, and was unable to complete the install.

by Jojoyee on 7. March 2013 - 15:34  (106020)

@Fairportfan, unfortunately the latest version 4.2 has tied up with other software that you may not need. To opt out of unwanted software during the installation, try to select the grayed out buttons which are clickable when tried. These buttons include 'Cancel', 'Skip' and 'Decline'.

by harish zxc on 18. January 2013 - 14:42  (104619)

can anyone tell me how export only highlighted sentence from (abode reader 11.1) to text or other word format ...instead of copying what i highlight...

by West Swan on 25. December 2012 - 8:22  (103962)

Hello

I would like to recommend UniPDF Converter.

From their website http://unipdf.com/ :

"Convert PDF to Word, JPG, HTML, or Text in batches. 100% Free Standalone and easy-to-use, UniPDF performs accurate conversion from PDF files to word documents (doc/rtf), images (JPG/PNG/BMP/TIF/GIF/PCX/TGA), HTML, or plain text files (txt) in batch mode, with all document texts, layouts, images and formatting ideally preserved".

So far I've used it to convert a word document with an image and a table and although the table did not come out 100% it took about 10 seconds to make it so.

This is the best I've found so far and it did a better job than the online zamzar.

Hope this helps someone,

Paul

by MidnightCowboy on 25. December 2012 - 8:54  (103964)

Would just like to advise a little caution with this one especially since it is a new entry to one of the most malware populated categories.

Zulu does find the site "benign" overall but still manages a score of 42/100.

http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/962fbcff60e6874e17fb5126caad4864...

VirusTotal gives just two "hits" (one really because they both use the same source), but Trend Micro is pretty good with these things and despite being a heuristic detection, it does match their known criteria "based on well-established characteristics inherent to compressed malware".

https://www.virustotal.com/file/0f7f79e671f97f2d7003ce3797f1e22337617dd7...

Additionally, Is This File Safe (Emsisoft) assesses it as "installing something invisibly". MC - Site Manager.
http://www.isthisfilesafe.com/sha1/FD9F29375396479E0819B11DDFF1E4E795BA2...

by West Swan on 25. December 2012 - 9:11  (103966)

Thanks MC :-)

I found out about the converter on Ashrafs website who I think is or was one of your editors? He strongly recommended it.

http://dottech.org/category/windows/best-free-windows-software/

So I'm not sure now :-)

That virustotal thing sounds good. I think I will use it from now on.

Cheers,

Paul

by MidnightCowboy on 25. December 2012 - 9:23  (103967)

We did used to feature some content from Ashraf but this is no longer the case.

This still may be a false positive but the genre of the software suggests caution is advisable until more becomes known about the product and the vendor. MC - Site Manager.

by West Swan on 25. December 2012 - 9:56  (103968)

Thanks :-)

by cyw77 (not verified) on 26. September 2012 - 22:30  (99803)

Not sure if there are anyone who knows of a XLS to PDF converter that preserves the hyperlink for http and also for UNC path.
I tried this
http://www.cogniview.com/free-excel-to-pdf-converter

It does http but not for UNC path.

by df1995 on 25. September 2012 - 23:27  (99754)

I'm looking for a tool that will take several pdf files, reduce them in size and place them on a single page for printing.

I have lots of certificates in pdf. Printing each one and putting them in my personnel file will make it too large. So I would like to print four or six certificates to a page.

TIA

by Pica SO (not verified) on 30. November 2012 - 8:04  (103101)

The certificates are (generally) images (assuming, you would have scanned them). You can import PDF files (page by page) into The GIMP or Inkscape and extract the images. Then use any of the image compression/resizing tools (The GIMP) and insert the images into a document. Then export as (or save as or print as) PDF.

The GIMP and Inkscape are available both for Windows and Linux.

by Jambmqn puchara (not verified) on 20. September 2012 - 20:46  (99526)

I need a PDF Unlocker program that just allows me to go into the pdf,make some changes, like correcting an entry typed in wrong. Iam barely computer literate, so I need something simple.

by Saulius (not verified) on 19. September 2012 - 14:30  (99466)

Does anyone know of a freeware pdf reader that will go through pdf file and show me their pages? I want to just click an arrow key to get to the next page inside a pdf

by snowd (not verified) on 12. September 2012 - 20:26  (99176)

Does anyone know of a freeware pdf reader that will go through all pdf's in a folder one after the other and show me their pages? In other words, I want to just click an arrow key to get to the next page inside a pdf or after the last page of one pdf, open the next pdf and start showing me the pages of that one. I know that I could merge all the smaller pdf's and form a large overview pdf to do this, but since I'm constantly adding new pdf's into the folder and they sort in between the old pdf's, I don't want to have to do this every time I make a change. Thanks.

DRS

by rayzors1 (not verified) on 8. August 2012 - 15:47  (97405)

Thank you so much. I have old Windows but I needed to convert documents to PDF. Everything I have found so far has been on a trial basis. This was a gift. Thanks!

by szore on 17. July 2012 - 10:27  (96323)

The problem with the search function in pdfxchange is that there is no save option. I have over 35,000 pdf files. It takes hours to do a keyword search. They need an option where you can 'save' a search results for later perusal, so you dont have to run the search (7 hours) everytime you need the results for a kw search. Big problem for me.

by Sam Wong (not verified) on 5. July 2012 - 14:08  (95761)

http://www.dealpdf.com/pdf-to-word.html

I found a new pdf to word converter: Deal PDF to Word
It uses MS Office Ribbon UI, I like..

by Question (not verified) on 21. June 2012 - 17:06  (95201)

Hello.
Does anybody know PDFArchitect (see http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfarchitect)?
Thank you.

by JJBrown (not verified) on 14. June 2012 - 12:52  (94846)

I need to visually check about 1000 PDF scanned files and rotate if necessary. Simple task I thought. Tried both PDFill and PDFTK, both are very poor. PDFill UI is too complicated and clunky, far too many steps required tp [erform simple task. Also free version writes "PDFill PDF Editor with Free Writer and Tools" across the middle of each page.

PDFTK has ridiculous UI. Doesn't provide visual display of PDF document and requires user to key in the number of pages in the document before it will rotate. Perhaps developer should add a 'rotate all pages' option it's kind of obvious.

Also, just trying to uninstall PDFill. Has been running for about 2 minutes doing something don't know what but is really slowing down PC and pissing me off.

by Janice (not verified) on 23. May 2012 - 23:35  (93896)

Does anyone know of a program that automatically merges two PDFs created by scanning 2 sides of a mult-page document so that the pages are in order?

My printer only scans one side of a document, then I have to flip it and re-feed it to scan the other side. So then I have two documents - one is with pages 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. and the other is with pages 8, 6, 4, and 2.

(I was not able to find an answer in the previous comments.)

Thanks!
Janice

by Jeremy_H (not verified) on 30. May 2012 - 17:29  (94202)

I would use GIOS pdf Splitter and Merger to split the two documents into individual pages; Bulk Rename Utility to rename the pages so they are in order; and GIOS to stick them back again.

by Janice (not verified) on 30. May 2012 - 18:09  (94204)

Thanks Jeremy, I will check out GIOS!

by Ivo123 (not verified) on 23. May 2012 - 13:19  (93886)

Is anybody aware of a PDF merge tool that offers the following - I am looking for a tool that has the capability to import a bunch of PDF documents (say 100)into a "worklist". From the worklist I want to select a subset of documents (say 5 individual PDF's), merge those and then repeat the process for the remaining 95 PDF's in the worklist. So far the tools I have seen merge all (100) individual documents loaded in one go.
Additionally it would be nice if I could apply some logic with regards to the naming and location for saving of the merged documents to minimize the number of keystrokes involved.

Any idea? Input would be much appreciated.

by Kevin Lee (not verified) on 8. May 2012 - 7:23  (93201)

Hi, i really want to say, your tutorials are really great! I also want to share two free PDF tools, they are PDFMate Free PDF Converter and PDFMate Free PDF Merger. You can find them on http://www.pdfmate.com.