Tungsten Power PDF

Score9.3 out of 10

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Tungsten Power PDF

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What is Tungsten Power PDF?

Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document lifecycle workflow.

Benefits to Power PDF users:

Ease of Use: Works like Office desktop products, so it's easier to learn
Compatibility: Works across devices and platforms, share documents in a storage cloud
Security: Built-in features to protect information & compare documents to monitor tampering
Search: "Fuzzy Search" provides a Google-like search
3D Support: Rotate, zoom, annotate and more on a 3D object
Speed & Accuracy: Accurate & speedy when converting PDFs to/from Word, Excel, and other popular formats
eSignature Integration: Sign & send PDF documents for signature via SignDoc or other 3rd party platforms
Dynamic Stamps: Customizable stamping with font, color, background
Redact Sensitive Information: Automatically detect & redact words and expressions for safe, secure document sharing
Create Interactive PDF Forms with a Single Click: Convert a flat, image-based PDF form into one that users can complete electronically
Formatting: PDF/A-4 Format to ensure retention all of the newest PDF features
Collaboration: Review, markup and revise PDFs with annotations, mark-up and stamps

Power PDF Advanced, Standard and Mac are individual, buy-once-own-forever licenses for desktop or laptop. Power PDF Business volume licensing is available for more than 5 users, with a single admin, server installation, and other collaborative features for teams, along with Generative AI features.

Free trials for all Power PDF editions available here.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

the PDF Create Assistant, which can be used to create multiple PDFs at the same time from a variety of source formats. Create individual PDFs, or combine into one PDF package.

PDF Profiles that can be created to apply commonly desired settings to new PDF documents created in Power PDF.

the application's color, changed from purple to blue, light gray or dark gray.

some lightweight document automation that can also be achieved with the Watched Folder and Sequence features.

where packages can be signed with pre built templates using Kofax Sign Doc or other integrating e-signers

PDFs that can be navigated with a thumbnail view

the application's Office-like look and feel

PDF to Word conversion, and vice versa, which can be carried out in the application.

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Merge or Split PDFs
Allows users to combine multiple PDF files into one document or split a single PDF into separate files.
Category average: 8.6
Convert to Different Formats
Allows users to convert PDFs to popular formats like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or image files.
Category average: 8.5
Page Management
Provides tools to add, delete, reorder, or rotate pages in the PDF document.
Category average: 8.1

Edit Text and Images
Users can edit and manipulate text and images within the PDF document.
Category average: 7.9
Text Recognition (OCR)
Supports Optical Character Recognition to convert scanned documents or images into editable text.
Category average: 7.4
Form Creation and Editing
Allows users to create interactive forms within the PDF document or fill out existing form fields.
Category average: 7.1

Jonathan Kolarik

CEO at N4Matix (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product is used every day with high frequency as the “go to” for PDF document management. The product works. Every time. All the time. Seamless and quick. Staff particularly favor the option to combine multiple documents from various formats into a single, unified PDF document. They also appreciate the PDF editing capabilities as they are robust and stable.

Pros

Combine documents from multiple formats into one PDF
Edit PDF
Review PDFs, even from a mobile device

Cons

Sometimes the software updates don’t make sense. Staff are encouraged to wait at least a month before downloading and installing updates.
The PDF converter which is supposed to covert PDF to Word format is lackluster at best and makes frequent mistakes on complex documents.
The PDF editor is robust but doesn’t deal well with images.

Return on Investment

Saved from purchasing Adobe!
Probably save 10-20 hours a week in manually printing then scanning multiple documents into single PDF documents.
Save time editing PDFs!

Alternatives Considered

Adobe AIR, Adobe Acrobat and AcroPDF

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Bitdefender GravityZone, Microsoft To Do

Jacob Kendrick View profile

CFO in Corporate at Intercon (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Purchased two licenses to test the feasibility of replacing Adobe with Kofax. The test went great; users stated that Kofax is faster and easier to use than Adobe. We plan to replace all Adobe licenses with Kofax, resulting in a $6,000 annual savings. Our users primarily use the software to edit PDFs and sign documents.

Pros

Signing documents.
Editing PDFs.
OCR

Cons

OCR should not require so many clicks.
Editing PDFs is hidden behind ribbon clicks.

Return on Investment

Moved to save money from Adobe.
ROI was immediate as purchase cost equaled Adobe annual cost.
I don't understand the volume licenses; there isn't a "release" from the license, only an uninstall feature.

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Edge

George Skrbin

President in Professional Services at Telos Community Management (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tungsten is used as our PDF option. We find that the functionality of combining PDF files into one document to be extremely useful and easy to use. That includes numbering the pages, adding and deleting pages, arranging pages, bookmarking (extremely easy), and arranging content. Adding headers and footers is a breeze. If there were one thing to change, allow the footer to overlay for page numbering. That would make the document easier to read and cleaner. The product also has excellent compression ability to reduce the size of a combined file for email. The tool addressed our need for compiling and formatting large reports.

Pros

Combing files
Bookmarks
Editing
Formatting
Page numbering
File compression/size reduction.

Cons

Overlay function for page numbers.
Cleaner highlighting function.
Removing/replacing footers. Can impact pre-existing footers in combined files.

Return on Investment

Time saving. For a report that would typically take an hour, it can be completed in 30 minutes.
Makes our client reports and meeting materials look great.
There is no negative impact.

Alternatives Considered

CutePDF

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, Xero, UKG Pro

Darrin Nicholas

Senior Account Executive in Sales at Turnkey Communications (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our business typically works with large PDF documents where only a small portion pertains to our operations. Frequently we use Tungsten Power PDF to extract relevant pages or sections and allow us to work with more manageable documents. Additionally, we typically use Tungsten Power PDF to convert PDF data into Excel spreadsheets for easier sharing and collaboration or to combine documents where sending multiple files isn't an option.

Pros

Extract pages to new file.
Search function can identify words and phrases in a document.
Edit text and typewriter function allows for making any PDF 'fillable'.
Combining documents allows to physically print and sign a signature page of a document and insert it into the digital copy.

Cons

Sometimes the search function doesn't always pick up text on a page. It can turn back "no results" from time to time when searching for words that are clearly on-display in my screen.
At times, the program becomes finicky and will only open a PDF if the program has been closed down or else it returns an error.
I've noticed from time-to-time if a file is open in Tungsten Power PDF for an extended time and I go back to it, much of the content has disappeared causing me to have to close the program and reopen.

Return on Investment

Saves hours from having to create Excel file or Word document from PDF.
Easily extract scope of work from our PDF quotes and turn them into work orders for our technicians.
Huge savings from avoiding printing 100+ page documents to get a form physically signed and then having to scan it back to electronic format. This is now done by printing one page, scanning it and combining it back into the electronic document.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Acrobat

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Procore

Lemuel Stigler View profile

Lawyer in Professional Services at RCA Lawyers (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have multiple licenses for Tungsten Power PDF. My spouse is a court reporter involved in the production of trial transcripts, many times with submissions from multiple court reporters. This requires her to format the combined transcripts sections in accord with the rules governing transcript page volume size and page numbering. Tungsten Power PDF empowers her to combine and format the transcript sections into a single transcript series of volumes. I have used and use various PDF programs. Tungsten Power PDF is the program that I use generally in my workflows for three programs that I frequently use. Those three programs are: LiquidText PDF, TrialPad, and the legacy version of CaseMap. These programs do much of their work on PDFs. Tungsten Power PDF is the only regular PDF program that I know that makes it possible to use the legacy versions of CaseMap.

Pros

page numbering and batesstamping
extracting pages
redaction
search and redact
dividing large documents
inserting pages
deleting pages
inserting blank pages
stamping

Cons

blank page insertion could be clearer
font control when using the typewriter can be better
The CaseMap functionality could be made more prominent

Return on Investment

Tungsten Power PDF is the only PDF product capable of competing with Adobe Acrobat, while being cheaper than Adobe Acrobat.
PDF Products cheaper than Tungsten Power PDF have proven to be more difficult to use, lacking in needed features, and aesthetically unpleasing!

Alternatives Considered

Readiris 17, CutePDF, ABBYY FineReader, WPS Office and PDF Reader Pro

Foxit PDF Editor

Nitro Productivity Suite

Adobe Acrobat

Tungsten Power PDF

What is Tungsten Power PDF?

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Top Performing Features

Merge or Split PDFs

Convert to Different Formats

Page Management

Areas for Improvement

Edit Text and Images

Text Recognition (OCR)

Form Creation and Editing

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