Nitro PDF® Professional OCR is an affordable, fully-featured PDF creation and editing product with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). For just $119.99, Nitro PDF Professional OCR gives you full control over PDF documents, including commenting, form-filling and authoring, digital signatures, text editing, one-click creation from Microsoft® Office and more. Nitro Pro OCR lets you create PDF files from scanned paper documents, or existing image-based PDF files, perfect for publishing, editing, or archiving. Make your PDF files fully searchable and selectable, while retaining exact formatting. Alternatively, replace all image-based text with fully searchable, selectable, and editable text.

Ted Padova, author of the The Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible, called Nitro PDF "an extraordinary PDF creation and editing tool" and "a powerhouse companion for Microsoft Office users who want to easily create, manipulate and share PDF documents."

Note: Please review the Platform and Product Requirements and the Limitations of the Evaluation version before downloading or purchasing this product. What is +support subscription?

Reasons to Buy

Create PDF
Create PDF and PDF/A files from virtually any Windows application, with full control over PDF output options. Offering one-click conversion for many commonly-used file types (including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and more), Nitro PDF Professional simplifies the PDF creation process. All PDF files created with Nitro PDF Professional are 100% compatible with other PDF viewing applications including Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Whether it’s a paper document, or an image-based PDF file, Nitro PDF Professional OCR lets you create PDF files that can be searched, edited, reviewed, commented, and easily archived or published. Create easily searchable, PDF/A compliant documents for archiving with Searchable Image mode, and create editable PDF files and customize documents using the Editable Text feature.

Edit PDF
Edit PDF content, no matter what it is. From correcting minor typos and updating or removing text, to advanced image editing tasks such as inserting, replacing, cropping, resizing and downsampling, Nitro PDF Professional makes it easy to make last-minute edits. Create consistency throughout your documents by inserting headers, footers, watermarks, page numbering and more. Edit document properties and optimize PDF for distribution, creating polished, recipient-ready PDF files.

Export PDF
Easily convert PDF to Word and PDF to RTF with industry-leading accuracy, enabling quick content reuse in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice and more. Extract text and images from PDF files in a single click, for trouble-free repurposing in other programs. Copy entire blocks of text or take snapshots of PDF pages for quick pasting into another document.

Review and annotate PDF
Streamline processes and eliminate paper waste through electronic document review. Use Nitro PDF Professional's intuitive commenting tools to add notes, text feedback, drawing markups and more. Reply to feedback from others, or view, consolidate, organize and summarize reviewer comments, all from a single location. Efficiently collaborate and share your comments with Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader users.

PDF forms
Create PDF forms quickly and easily using a robust set of form design and editing tools. In just a few clicks, turn static PDF documents into professional-looking PDF forms containing text fields, buttons, checkboxes, JavaScript and more. Fill in, submit, print and save PDF forms, all without breaking the bank.

Secure PDF
Control how people view and use your sensitive and confidential information through robust PDF encryption. Use passwords and digital certificates to restrict who can open files and perform other tasks such as printing, editing, copying and form filling. Use digital signatures and certification to ensure document integrity and prevent content tampering.

Assemble & Combine PDF
Combine documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more into a single, polished PDF file. Nitro Pro's powerful editing tools enable you to reorder, delete, insert, extract, replace, split, and rotate pages, providing you precise control over your entire document while guaranteeing your information is presented exactly as intended.

Easy integration into your existing enterprise workflow
Use Nitro PDF Professional with popular document management systems, including Hummingbird, Documentum, and SharePoint. Easily rollout and manage enterprise-wide installations with convenient deployment tools.

Major Features

Create PDFs

• Create PDF and PDF/A documents from virtually any Windows file.
• Convert and merge files into a single PDF document.
• Convert entire collections of files to PDF in one batch.
• One-button PDF creation from Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint®.
• Create 'intelligent' PDF documents with bookmarks, links, metadata, and security from Microsoft Office programs.

Scan-to-PDF and OCR Features

• Scan paper documents to PDF
• Use OCR on newly-scanned files or pre-existing image-based files.
• Make PDF and PDF/A files fully searchable (while retaining the original look) or make them fully searchable and editable.
• User OCR on English, German, French, and Spanish-language documents.

Copying & Exporting PDF

• Export PDF for reuse in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice and more.
• Use different conversion modes to export files that look precisely like the original
• PDF and others that are easier to edit and repurpose.
• Extract all text and images from PDF documents.
• Batch convert PDF files to Word, RTF, and text formats.
• Copy text while retaining formatting, including font, color, and size.

Editing PDF

• Insert and edit text, including font, size, color and more.
• Edit images — insert, resize, rotate, crop, flip, replace, arrange, delete, and extract.
• Edit image properties — brightness, contrast, color space, and resolution.
• Edit pages — insert, delete, rotate, crop, extract, and replace.
• Split pages of PDF documents based on page groups, page ranges, and bookmark structure.
• Add headers, footers, watermarks, and text to all pages in a document.
• Add Bates numbering across a collection of PDF documents.
• Add and edit bookmarks and links.
• Auto-create bookmarks based on document text formatting and headings.
• Auto-create links based on keywords and page numbers.
• Optimize, shrink and repair PDF documents.
• Edit document properties including metadata and initial view settings.

Reviewing & Marking Up PDF

• Highlight text content with the Highlight, Underline, Cross Out and Replace Text tools.
• Add Sticky Notes, Text Boxes, and Call Out annotations.
• Add freehand drawings with the Pencil tool.
• Add drawing shapes, including lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, polygons and clouds.
• Apply stamps to pages, choosing from standard built-in stamps or your own custom
• creations.
• Attach documents and other files to your PDF pages.
• Add explanatory text and other feedback to your markups.
• Sort and manage comments.
• Filter comments based on type, author, status, subject, and more.
• Summarize comments for easy viewing alongside page content. View the summary as a PDF or print it for paper-based reviewing.

PDF Security

• Secure documents with passwords and certificates.
• Encrypt with 40- and 128-bit level security.
• Apply restrictions on printing, copying, and altering PDF documents.
• Create and apply re-usable security profiles.
• Digitally sign and certify PDF files.

PDF Forms

• Fill in, save, print and submit forms.
• Design forms.
• Add, edit and run JavaScript.

Support and Usability

• Getting Started window for new or inexperienced users.
• User-friendly Microsoft Office 2007-style interface.
• In-depth help documentation.
• Industry leading customer support services.

Platform and Product Requirements

• Windows® 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (64-bit editions supported)
• Windows® Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 (Terminal Server and Citrix XenApp/Access Essentials configurations supported)
  For servers: Please view the following page on Nitro PDF Software's website: PDF for Citrix and Terminal Server software
• Pentium® III processor or equivalent (Pentium® 4 recommended)
• 512 MB system memory (1024 MB recommended)
• 300 MB of available hard drive space
• Microsoft® Office 2003 or 2007 required for Microsoft® Office integrated features.
• Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 (or above)

Limitations of the Evaluation version

You can try Nitro PDF Professional free of charge for 14 days. In trial mode Nitro PDF is fully-functional, but a 'demo' stamp will be applied to each page of any PDF you create or modify with the product.

Priority Support

Every purchase of Nitro PDF Professional comes with 30 days free email technical support from the day you register your copy, in addition to access to standard support facilities (online help and the Nitro PDF forums).

You can choose to buy a subscription to Nitro +support with your copy (or copies) of Nitro PDF Professional. A +support subscription entitles you to a certain number of expert email support cases over a twelve-month period from the date of registration (five cases for one- and five-user license packs, ten for ten-user license packs).

Screenshots