PDF24 Creator 11.4

Free Perform more than 30 PDF-related tasks for free either on your PC or online
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Do not be misled by the program’s name – PDF24 Creator does much more than “creating PDF files”. Actually, the Windows version has been renamed PDF24 Toolbox, which says more accurately what it really is. This Swiss-army knife kind of tool offers 34 PDF-related utilities to all users at no cost. The program can be enjoyed either online or as a Windows standalone program, and it will let you perform tasks that are usually available only on costly PDF editors.

This excellent and versatile PDF macro tool offers a wide variety of utilities in one single software application. While most PDF editors ask for a usually fairly expensive fee, PDF24 Creator is available for free and in two versions – online and Windows-based. Both variants offer you the same functionality, which has been split into 34 buttons that will take you to 34 highly useful utilities. Surely, the program lacks some of the functionality that – for certain users and companies – makes professional PDF editors worth the fee, but for the average user, PDF24 Creator can easily become that perfect inexpensive solution they will ever need.

Each of the 34 buttons that appear on the main interface lead to a clear interface. They’re all different and alike at the same time, so that regardless of which tool we pick up we’ll always know how to go about its functionality without any help. Clearly, the standalone version mirrors its online counterpart when it comes to interface design, which has its pros and cons. Some of the dialog boxes look too big for a Windows program, and sometimes we’re forced to scroll down a bit to find a certain button. Also, if you happen to close the tool, you’re using instead of using the “Home” button at the top of the window, you’ll be closing the entire application inadvertently. Still, you just have to try two or three of its tools for a couple of times, and you’ll find out how easy it is to get used to it.

Without being exhaustive, I will mention but a few of the 34 utilities included in the program to show its amazing capabilities. PDF24 Creator or Toolbox comes with OCR capabilities, which means that you can scan a document as a PDF file or take an already existing scanned PDF and “extract” the text that appears there just as part of an image. You can also convert PDFs into various formats, including EPUB (right from this version) and different image file formats, and extract as independent files whatever images are in the PDF. Going quickly though some of its minor (yet always useful) utilities, you can merge, compress, edit (with restrictions), protect, unlock, split, rotate, sort, and compare PDF files, among others.

I invite you to discover and try the entire list of tools and utilities by yourself. You’ll surely be pleasantly surprised.

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Francisco Martínez
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Pros

  • Offers an extensive choice of PDF tools
  • Displays a different yet similar and coherent interface for each tool
  • Includes OCR capabilities
  • Converts to and from EPUB
  • Can also be used online

Cons

  • Closing one of the tools closes the whole program

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I'm holding tight to my Win7 Pro x64 desktop. If any legacy version will work, do you know the latest version?
Thanks

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I just love this program.

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I had older version 2.5.0 working fantastic. Due to rebuilding of my machine, I have reinstall it - but when I installed the latest version (6.7?) it just hangs and never prints. I was trying to print an excel file into pdf (Which I did before with older version of 5.2.0 and worked very well). The pop-up of "Printing" stays forever and then it says (Not responding) and eventually it crashes the excel as well. So uninstalling it. If I find the older version 5.2.0 - I will try installing it and will see whether it still works else no option but say "good-bye" to pdf24 and use the other old one Primopdf. However I found in past that pdf24 was providing better pdf quality than primopdf. Will try luck once more.

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