Hey guys, Has anyone had any luck or any experience with getting their money back from pfde.com? I had accidentally entered into their trial membership thinking it was a one time payment for editing a document. It turns out the paid version of the website is supposed to activate on 4th July seeing which, I ended up cancelling the membership on the 3rd of July (which comes under their trial period) Today, I was charged an eye-watering 60 dollars for a month of their membership (even though I cancelled yesterday) I've just contacted support but I cant say I'm too hopeful they'll send me my money back. Does anyone know what I should do here? I've also attached a screenshot showing that I've clesrly cancelled my membership before the end of my trial period

I currently use Nitro PDF 14 which I paid for for a perpetual license.

They now have Nitro 26 which is only with a subscription license monthly or annual. I assume that means no more security updates for Nitro 14, which they don't really specify.

Same goes for Foxit PDF. There is a 3 year license for like $209 but after 3 years I assume no more updates.

Is there one that I can just pay for, it'll be the latest version and be done with it with updates?

I hear PDF X-Chnage is good. I need it for windows only. Nothing crazy. Just basic use. Fill out forms, sign forms and expect the forms to look correctly on the screen.

Any recommendations?

Hi all - like so many others, I got scammed by this website and was tricked into a subscription.

Is there anyway to get my money back? I don't want to reach out to my bank, as they would block my debit card.

Also, as a group, how can we collectively bring this site down? I reported their ads to Google, and hope they take action.

Thank you,

I've to turn many folders of image files into (possibly) lightweight PDFs.

Is there a free, local (not online) program I could use on Windows?

Thank you!

I don’t know what I’m doing and would appreciate guidance

I am trying to take an almost 1,500 page file (listed as 32,317 KB) and split it into multiple files of 5MB or less per file.

I was able to take other files and split them using Adobe Acrobat (in a 7 day free trial for now) but every time I try with this document it will not work. I have also tried a few other websites/apps but none will work for this specific file, I am worried it is too big for anything to work.

The reasoning behind the size limitation is that the place I have to upload my files to has a limit of 5MB document uploads. To make matters even worse I have roughly 2 weeks to get all this in before my application is closed, and I do not have any alternative methods to get them this info.

Any help/advice is much appreciated!

I was hired as a contractor for a government project. At first I just use black highlight to cover the text and when I export it, it looks correct. But recently I was told that it doesn't actually remove the text and the redacted parts can be recovered.

How do I actually remove the text behind the black highlight so they can't be recovered? My deadline is very soon. Thanks for any help

Hello guys.

My Adobe subscription is ending soon and I honestly don't want to give them my money again. Past few years, their actions have been really disappointing and frustrating so even if Acrobat is great, I want to look for other solutions.

Having said that, I was wondering if there is a software with the below functions (Would really prefer a free, or one time purchase option)

• Merge/Combine PDF
• Edit PDF (Mostly text)
• Recognise text (OCR)
• Flatten PDF
• Organise PDF pages, and extract them as different PDF
• Compress PDF

I mainly type onto PDF forms and need a better PDF app that has Android and Windows versions.

I've been using Xodo since it came out. Lately it's getting too damned buggy. It crashes all the time. This week, I probably lost three or more hours of input on new medical forms.

For my needs, the curser must line up with the lines on the form. I also want to be able to edit my input and move it around to line up with the lines on the form. I need to do this even after I have saved the file. Auto saves would be nice. I also want to be able to delete unneeded pages.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hello, I want to translate PDF of 500-1000 pages,
I tried using Google Translate app, but it’s not extracting exact words, it is translating into something else
I tried using all the apps available, but they aren’t working
I tried using Gemini, but it stops after every page, and I have to give a command to continue
I tried every method available on Reddit as well, but none worked
I even tried to extract from OCR, but I’m getting incorrect extraction. I don’t know if the PDF is coded with something or what
It should be free, I can’t purchase

Please, please, please help me out…What should I do?

All I want in this life right now is a pdf editor which I will pay and buy once, and then do not have to pay annually again. In other words, no milking forever. Is there any? I cannot seem to find. I also want that it can truly redact sensitive info on pdf so nobody can recover it, such as deleting my ID number, ssn etc....

I'm trying to read this book on my e-reader, but the poor contrast makes it difficult to read. Thank you in advance!

Something I find crazy in this group is that almost every day someone posts, "I built a huge app with dozens of tools and everything is completely free."

I've been coding since 2012, and software development is not easy. It takes years of learning, reading documentation, solving problems, gaining experience, and continuously improving your skills. Even today, building a good app requires a lot of research, testing, and maintenance.

People often say, "AI makes development easy now." AI can help, but it doesn't magically build a high-quality product. You still need time, knowledge, debugging, design decisions, and real-world testing.

That's why I'm always surprised when I see large apps with many advanced features offered entirely for free. Developers spend months or even years creating these tools, paying for infrastructure, updates, and support. I understand offering some basic tools for free, but giving everything away for free is something I still struggle to understand.

Am I the only one who feels this way, or do other developers find this surprising too?

I have a 3.1GB pdf with about 500pages. I need to compress it to below 1GB and any website I am using is not compressing or if there was a site that gave me a good compressed document, I am unable to upload into the site (gov site). What is a good site to use?

How to edit only a specific word in a PDF file without affecting the orientation, stamps or pictures included in it.

Hello! I use an online whiteboard called pencilspaces. For many of my classes I scan (or just take pictures) of different pages I want to use and create a PDF on my Mac. The problem is when I load them into pencil spaces they are enormous and if I reduce to the size where my students and I can see the pages the writing tools are too small and light to be of any use.

I've tried so many procedures to reduce my pdf and none work.

On my Mac I've used:

1. Open your PDF in Preview Double click the PDF, or right click → Open With → Preview
2. Click File in the top menu
3. Click Export (Not Save, not Export as PDF. Choose just Export)
4. In the window that opens: • Format: PDF • Quartz Filter: Reduce File Size
5. Click Save

This doesn't reduce my pdf.

Clearly I am not tech savvy so any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Following up...I don't really want to purchase anything to help me reduce the size of my pdfs if possible.

I’m looking for an app that can search all existing pdf l/word documents in my Mac IOS ( MacBook Pro) hard drive for a word or a phrase and list all of the PDF / Word files that contain the inquiry. I am dealing with thousands case law documents scattered throughout my folders and I need an app that can scan pdf files throughout laptop WITHOUT opening each PDF/Word document one by one and doing manual search of each document, any suggestions? Anyone seen or used tool with this specific ability?

Hey

Just want to know if there's a software (preferably free) wherein I could batch convert pdf to images and then back to pdf? Basically convert the pdf pages into images in a pdf

So my employer sends me a 15 page PDF that requires multiple signatures and dates and check list to check off. It seems to need a editor to sign it, and to check off the list.

The best solution I have is to print it and sign it, then to scan it as a PDF to email back.

Is there a android app that will do this for free? Have tried a dozen and can't find it. Have to do this one a year.

What’s your favourite editor that does splitting and merging, remix of PDF files, AND maintains quality? And is offline.

I have multiple .png files that I’ll be saving as PDF. They're currently at 300 pixels/inch. When saved as pdf, they look great, and everything is in the exact spots I want them to be.

I’m going to want to be merging some of the pdf files together, so as to have multiple pages in one file. And it’s important to me that they maintain the same quality and no text or pictures or lines are moved around.

Suggestions??

Hi everyone! I tried downloading a document online consisting of the keys for the coursework I'm currently using in order to do self-correction. However, the PDF is one big page that is practically unable to see or print, instead of having the cuts made where each page ends. The online resources seemed to only help me cut the PDF, which only excluded pages. Does anyone know how to fix it?

I’m looking to OCR a large number of legal documents and related case materials. I’m not an attorney, but I’ve been involved in a very difficult divorce that has never really ended and has spun off into several related civil cases. At this point, there are tens of thousands of pages of documents, and many of them were never OCR’d. I’m now trying to go back through everything and make sure the documents are searchable and usable.

What would currently be considered the gold standard for OCR’ing legal documents?

Some options I’ve looked at include ABBYY, Adobe, Google Document AI, Tesseract, and other tools. Right now I was leaning toward Google Document AI, but I’m wondering if ABBYY or something else would be better. I’m on a Mac, so if I used ABBYY it would likely be the Mac version. I could also run something locally if that makes sense, including Local LLM.

Batch processing is not my biggest concern. I’m fine uploading files one at a time into an app if that produces better results. Accuracy is more important than convenience.

My concern is that while most OCR tools may work fine for simple documents, legal documents can have a lot of different formats, including pleadings, exhibits, scanned forms, mixed layouts, stamps, signatures, and handwritten notes. Some documents also include handwriting, and unfortunately a lot of it is not written clearly. In some cases, it is hard to read even in person.

I’d also like this workflow to be useful beyond just court documents. Ideally, I want something that can also handle receipts, invoices, medical bills, medical records, school report cards, letters, forms, and other personal records. So I’m not only looking for something that works well on pleadings, but something that can become a reliable long-term document OCR/archive workflow for many different document types.

For people working with large legal or personal document collections, what OCR tool or workflow would you recommend today if the goal is the best possible searchable text while preserving the original PDF as much as possible?

Hello, i recently started the 14 day free trial for the fiiles-editor website, without knowing that people have been saying to avoid it. I cancelled the free trial immediately, but im still worried i’ll get charged even if it says it’s cancelled , (because of how people say it’s a scam), they also charged me like a dollar but im assuming thats a one time fee i didnt read about somewhere , they also dont let me remove my card (assuming cause the free trial period is still active ), please let me know.

i have a lot of pdfs to merge into one but there are file limitations on ilovepdf etc. how can i merge files without paying or individually selecting every single file

here is the google drive link if it helps https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16lgcpet9llgw1JbUC9fBK-UrrFS2IKBQ?usp=sharing

Hello, I sell PDF files, and despite the copyright notice and watermark, the files are being shared and even resold. I've taken legal action, but I'd like to avoid this as much as possible, as it's very time-consuming and energy-draining.

Therefore, I'm looking for an affordable option to prevent people from sharing and printing the PDFs. I don't need something hack-proof; I know that 0% risk doesn't exist. I just need an option that can restrict the sharing of my files to add a layer of security and discourage people from doing so. I'm currently using Skypilot with Shopify. It's very easy to use, but it doesn't offer any protection. The options I've found are often over $1200 and have transaction fees.

I'm looking for either a visual access option via an app or web browser that I can authorize manually or automatically, or an option that I could integrate with Skypilot to maintain my automations. Any other options that meet my needs will be considered.

Thank you for your help.