Submit portable freeware that you find here. It helps if you include information like description, extraction instruction, Unicode support, whether it writes to the registry, and so on.
PDF Shaper is a collection of free PDF tools, which allows you to merge, split, encrypt and decrypt PDFs, convert images to PDF, convert PDF to RTF or images, extract text and images from PDF. Program has very easy-to-use user interface, uses low CPU resources, supports Unicode characters and batch processing.
Thanks billon. I now tested all the PDF tools included in PDF Shaper:
PDFShaper.exe: no settings
Extract Text: none Extract Images: none PDF to Image: none Image to PDF: none PDF to RTF (PDFtoRTF.exe): PDFShaper.ini in \user\current\AppData\Roaming Split PDF: none Merge PDFs: none Encrypt PDF(PDFTools.exe): none
PDF to RTF is the only tool to save settings in AppData.
I am Baas wrote:PDF to RTF is the only tool to save settings in AppData.
Would really like to have a PDF cropping tool on the site since that's maybe the most common thing I do to PDF files aside from deleting blank pages. Can we accept this as sort of conditionally portable or with some kind of disclaimer?
License note: It's listed as freeware on softpedia but according to the program internals and the homepage, it's free for non-commercial use only. That's a little weird as it seems to use Ghostscript (GPL) but whatever. I was actually testing this in a commercial environment before I figured that out so this analysis is only partially complete as I had to delete it.
Component tests
The Word to PDF converter seemed to work well but choked on an old DOC file (I think it's 97 or 2003 format).
The fairly basic crop tool (cropping by section and number e.g. lower right by 4x4 inches) seemed to work well but it's preview tool doesn't seem to function.
The text extractor worked remarkably well in maintaining the formatting in basic text (there is an option to skip any semblance of formatting), but doesn't appear to work in a batch format like most of the other tools.
It can remove/replace some metadata but I wondered if it zapped all of it or just the 6 fields it covered (author, subject, creator, producer, title, and keywords).