PDF-XChange Editor

The smallest, fastest, most feature-rich PDF editor/viewer available * Full Direct Content Editing (text based PDFs, not scanned/image based PDFs) * Includes OCR feature * View, Edit, and annotate PDF files

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Windows

The smallest, fastest, most featurerich PDF editor/viewer available

* Full Direct Content Editing (text based PDFs, not scanned/image based PDFs) * Includes OCR feature * View, Edit, and annotate PDF files

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PDF annotation Edit PDF PDF OCR Visual bookmarks Convert images to PDF

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