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PDF-XChange Viewer icon

PDF-XChange Viewer

PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Windows
  • PortableApps.com
Alternatives  
Discontinued

Since November 2013 the Tracker Software company states that "PDF-XChange Viewer has been discontinued and replaced by PDF-XChange Editor icon PDF-XChange Editor " , but the software has been and is still being updated from time to time as of 2020

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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Customizable
  3.  Clean design

Features

  1.  PDF annotation
  2.  Portable
  3.  PDF OCR
  4.  Extract annotation
  5.  OCR
  6.  Side-by-Side View
  7.  Multiple languages
  8.  Font identifier
  9.  Note extraction
  10.  Stamps

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Users consistently praise PDF-XChange Viewer for fast, lightweight, portable performance, strong rendering, customizable toolbars, search, thumbnails, annotations, markup, bookmarks and OCR. Many prefer it to Adobe Reader, Foxit, Sumatra and Nitro, especially for large PDFs and studying. A few comments note limited or paid features, while later posts say Viewer was replaced by Editor and may no longer receive upgrades.
Top Positive Comment
Kagerjay
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https://resource.dopus.com/t/free-thumbnails-viewer-for-eps-pdf-32-64-bit-and-many-more/13703/2

See this thread on what directoryOpus is

Basically, use PDF-x-change as your .pdf default app protocol.

Then you can use it to get image previews of your PDFs inside directoryOpus

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Very useful if you do a lot of PDF based work and need to preview thumbnails of your PDFs quickly

Plus adobe reader is generally the only other alternative here for PDF thumbnail preview.... and there monetizing everything / extremely invasive

[Edited by Kagerjay, November 28]

Clang_Fox
1

PDF-XChange Viewer remains my go-to PDF handler for Windows, despite the push towards the Editor product. While Editor does add some feature niceties, my experience has been that Viewer is more responsive and handles 99% of my PDF requirements, including very large PDFs (eg. architectural specification documents, architectural/engineering drawings, legal documents). The only notable feature I miss in Viewer is multi-selecting markup. Editor may have improved since my last testing, which was not recent.

The free unlicensed version is very feature-rich, and licensed features are fully enabled but add a watermark (with a notification and acceptance dialog). This model makes it easy to evaluate the licensed features, which I would -not- recommend; instead, upgrade to Editor for those.

Some of the more surprising features are the measurement tools, which allow for scaled take-off and ad-hoc scaling (eg, scaling to a non-standard or resized scale indicator). This makes it exceptionally useful as a default viewer in architectural, engineering, or estimation contexts.

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John Paul Natividad
0

Easy to use. Powerful in managing PDF file. Less expensive than acrobat reader dc. lots of features. Great for teacher like me. I also got academic discount which is 50% off on all products which is good. Great for students and teacher alike.

Soul Rain
0

Really love it. In the past year(s) both Foxit and Adobe (Adobe a looong time ago) started being laggy and buggy. I appreciate the way how PDF X Change loads very quickly, both the document but also the comment panel, search results and so on.

bishnusapkota
-1

Its a lightweight and portable.

marshallpbrown
0

It is the only program I am aware of that allow you to search through folders of PDF files for a specific text occurrence. When you have huge folders of PDFs and need the one that has a name or address or whatever in it. A little slow but a lot quicker than manually loading and searching each file.

dany111

Foxit Reader does it, too.

mll

For searches through the content of many kinds (not only PDF) of different files, FileLocator is a lifesaver: FileLocator icon FileLocator

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wildartnz
0

its amazing, I scrapped the master pdf editor, becuase it took so long to open anything and it would not let me preview the file.

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What is PDF-XChange Viewer?

PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader icon Adobe Acrobat Reader. The PDF XChange Viewer is an excellent tool for converting not text-searchable pdf-files in text-searchable pdf-files.

Need advanced features of the Viewer? PDF-XChange Editor icon PDF-XChange Editor extends the power of PDF-XChange Viewer with many features, headlining, Direct Content Editing of text based PDF files (Not PDFs created from images or scans).

PDF-XChange Viewer information

  • Developed by

    CA flagTracker Software

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5 (11 ratings)

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 27 comments and reviews about PDF-XChange Viewer, and it has gotten 371 likes

PDF-XChange Viewer was added to AlternativeTo by lebaron on and this page was last updated . PDF-XChange Viewer is sometimes referred to as PDF XChange Viewer, XChange, PDF-XChange, XChange Viewer.