STP (Scan to PDF) lets you convert paper documents into PDF files. Functions include creating JPEG files from scanned images, PDF creation from separate JPEG files, preview with basic image editing functions (rotate, crop), external preview and editing, variable compression/quality of PDF pages, etc.
Note: The website for this program appears to have been hijacked. Download link has been changed to Softpedia.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch stp.exe. |
What's new? |
V1.26 (10/05/2010) + Improved rotate procedure + Can specify output folder ! Minor bugfixes |
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joby_toss
on 2010-12-31 21:12
I get the best pdf scan output using IrfanView: smallest pdf file size and highest font quality (no OCR, obviously).
Emka
on 2011-12-24 21:01
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It seems you have to complete a survey or download games before you can download the application...:-( |
Free PDF Editor allows you to insert text and images into text and image boxes, as well as rectangles and ellipses. Within a text box, you can change font, alignment, size, and color. Useful for creating quick-and-dirty PDFs without having to use OpenOffice or having access to a print-to-PDF program.
NOTE: This program merely exports to PDFs and cannot open them.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch FreePDFEditor.exe. |
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VaranusK
on 2010-03-24 09:36
I guess this is a PDF *creator* and not editor... useful to create a PDF from scratch but can not edit existing ones...
Nate
on 2010-03-24 18:14
It shouldn't be included in as a PDF editor.
robzuc
on 2015-07-14 08:59
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As in 2010 year comments, this is not a real editor: it just can't open any pdf file. |
Simpo PDF to Text processes PDF to text files individually or in batch. The program can export to DOS/Windows, UNIX, or Mac-compatible text.
Note: Official website has gone crippleware, limiting conversion to two pages at maximum. See forum post for possible workaround if archive.org link doesn't work.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Path portability: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PDFtoText.exe. |
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donald
on 2012-08-24 20:41
TRY http://web.archive.org/web/20090222232915/http://www.simpopdf.com/pdf-to-text.html
111111
on 2019-12-30 13:51
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Version 1.0 is here on Korean site: https://kbench.com/software/?q=node/33579 |
Swift PDF tranforms and combines images from scans, photos, downloads or any other source into a single PDF document. You can set the page sizes, adjust the margins, and page orientation.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SwiftPDF.exe. |
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Rekrul
on 2011-01-16 06:06
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Lousy program. Leaves a white margin around around every image, regardless of the margin and/or paper size settings. Also, it doesn't properly set the page size, so each page looks like a thumbnail image. |
PDF Version Converter converts PDF file between different versions for compatibility reasons. It supports PDF version 1.0 to 1.6.
Note: This software appears to have gone shareware. Download link points to the last freeware version.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the stand-alone EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch pdfversion.exe. |
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freakazoid
on 2011-03-05 19:17
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I believe this is v1.0 - http://www.download3000.com/download_10029.html |
GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed, printed and converted.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
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Fergus
on 2010-09-29 13:45
I've done this, but I still get the "Register Now" nag. Pressing clears the nag, but it's awfully irritating. Is there a way of disabling it?
Fergus
on 2010-09-29 19:46
OK managed to get a register code; use it once and hey presto away you go. BUT the code is written o a local gsview.ini which also incorporates named drive letters. Move your USB stick to another host machine where it will very likely be named differently and gsview.ini is suddenly broken -- you have to supply the reg code again. Very VERY annoying; not true portable freeware, at all ...
Ascend4nt
on 2012-01-24 22:37
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Setup is a bit more tricky then running a self-extracting executable, and dumping Ghostscript in the same folder. Here's what I had to do: |
JPdfBookmarks is an easy way to add, change, or remove nested bookmarks in PDF files using an intuitive interface. The program has a variety of view, bookmark formatting options, the ability to extract links, and even optionally make bookmarks visible by default.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Java Runtime Environment version 6 or higher. |
Stealth: ? | No |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch jpdfbookmarks.exe. |
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TIFFsy Turvy extract multi-page TIFF files, apply rotation and export to JPG or PDF in one step. Handy when you get multi-page faxes in TIFF format that are upside-down.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TIFFsyTurvy.exe. |
What's new? |
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BtoPDF tool will convert BMP and JPG image to PDF as well as the reverse: PDF to JPG/BMP. Support for Drag & Drop operation available.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BtoPDF.exe. |
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Rekrul
on 2011-01-16 05:52
Downloaded this to try exporting the pages of a PDF file to image files. It didn't work at all, just returned an unhelpful "failure" message.
RecRedDot
on 2012-04-06 15:54
The "About PtoBMP" window says it will extract BMP/JPG from PDF files 'created by BtoPDF' (ONLY!!!); this should be clearly described in Synopsys to avoid frustracting loss of time attempting extraction of JPG from PDF files not created with this utility.
juvera
on 2014-12-27 01:14
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Disappointing, this app does not extract jpg images from pdf files. |
PDFTK is a command-line based tool for merging, splitting, encrypting, decrypting, compressing, decompressing and repairing PDF documents. GUI for PDFTK provides a graphical frontend for PDFTK.
Note: Under Windows XP, the program will report "The pipe has ended" after processing the PDF document. This is not an error! It indicates successful operation.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Yucca
on 2006-11-28 09:45
I much prefer PDFtk Builder v. 2.35 as a GUI for PDFtk. It's about half the size of GUI for PDFtk and I find it more functional (for example for reordering pages in a pdf).
Billy
on 2006-12-01 07:39
This is a spyware (scanned by Norton)!!!
spyware?
on 2006-12-12 05:29
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yeah, norton finds the spyware "Adware.Margoc" |
Avignon Concept is a Personal Information Manager aimed to integrate data management for Documents, Contacts, Calendar, ToDo lists, Bank accounts, Books and Music. The application has more than 40 standard (filter) reports, which can be run to screen and in PDF format.
Note: This software has gone payware and the only available free version is from Softpedia. Although the Softpedia version claims the software is portable, this has not been tested.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Avignon.exe. |
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LordMax
on 2008-02-12 07:11
very bad. One of the worse software I've used
Bol
on 2008-04-06 00:39
Very interesting application when you take time to invest in it. Much more than Rainlendar although less fancy interface. Has also the import tools and is fully Unicode. Must be used by a large number of users, as it appears in 7 languages already. New search function quite usefull. Imports are possible from Excel. Extra features, such as the Money application, can be used to replace money or quicken in simple households. The music and film functions are quite handy. I'm positively surprised : it's much better than it seems at first hand.
Kea
on 2010-07-20 12:52
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Apparently not free: "We advise you that the downloaded file gives you the right to try the program for 30 days. If you want to use the program longer than the 30 days, you need to buy the license key with us. The downloaded program is fully functional, and contains all 8 languages" |
RTF Convertor is a program to export RTF/Word documents into 10 file formats (HTML, PDF, BMP, PNG, JPG, Lotus, SVG, QUATTRO Pro, Excel. It also includes an advanced report engine and batch conversion.
Note: Site offline -- linking to Softpedia.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | Freeware |
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vmars316
on 2015-01-08 18:03
Rtf Convwrtor is the same program as Doc Convertor .
Midas
on 2015-01-09 11:41
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Please consider billon's comment at http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1268#comment26887 ... |
Doc Converter lets you save your highlighted source code for formats outside of code editors. This lets you share easy-to-read code samples in HTML, PDF, BMP, PNG, JPG, Lotus, SVG, QUATTRO Pro, Excel, and more. The program automatically recognizes and highlights more than 30 formats, including HTML, CSS, PHP, C/C++, C#, ASP, VB6, Pascal, Perl, SQL and many more. It also includes an advanced report engine and allows batch operations.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | Freeware |
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billon
on 2015-01-08 20:43
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Doc Convertor and RTF Convertor is now part of "Code Export suite" in that page: http://www.highdots.com/products/code-export/ and also can be downloaded separately |
PDF2EXE converts any PDF file to EXE, making PDF readable on any computer without PDF reading software. The conversion from PDF to EXE preserves the look and feel of the original document and includes optional compression. Note that PDF2EXE is based on Cool PDF Reader, which has attracted some comments disparaging the quality of its rendering engine. If you don't like Cool PDF Reader, you will probably want to give this a miss as well.
PDF2EXE also contains security features such as encryption of the shared PDF to help prevent modification, as well as disabling printing and image conversion.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
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BruceW
on 2006-11-14 06:45
Free PDF readers (Adobe's or otherwise) are so common and easy to obtain that I'm wondering how necessary it is to offer an alternative format, especially one that wouldn't work on Macs or Linux systems. If I knew for sure that my audience were all Windows users, I guess I might consider distributing .EXE files, but if it were up to me I'd prefer that everyone just had some kind of PDF reader.
decomp
on 2009-01-12 04:50
12/01/09: PDF2EXE is shareware (not freeware) as states the website.
Wolfghost
on 2010-05-20 23:17
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Here is download link to Portable PDF2EXE 1.0.0.128 |
ABC Amber LIT Converter converts Microsoft Reader's LIT files to a variety of output formats (PDF, HTML, CHM, RTF, HLP, DOC etc.) The software also supports a batch conversion and command line parameters. Note that some of the output formats have dependencies on external applications eg. CHM requires Microsoft HTML Help Workshop etc., but others eg. PDF, HTML do not.
Reportedly functional in Linux using WINE.
Note: The main download is offline, linking to Softpedia.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | Application folder. |
Stealth: ? | No. Writes an entry to the registry indicating the full path to the EXE |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
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juvera
on 2013-09-08 16:42
As of this writing, I could not find the file on the http://www.processtext.com/ website.
I am Baas
on 2013-09-08 17:09
The latest free version is 2.08, Softpedia has 2.05: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/File-Editors/ABC-Amber-LIT-Converter.shtml
billon
on 2013-09-08 22:41
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You can convert LIT-books to readable HTML with Universal Extractor (clit.exe), or with GUI for clit.exe - http://www.convertlit.com/clit18.zip (port&stealth) |
AcroPAD is a simple Notepad-like program with PDF production capability. Handy for quick generation of simple PDF documents.
Note: website offline, linking to archive.org mirror.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AcroPad.exe. |
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Good_Freeware_Hunter
on 2010-02-08 01:26
Does exactly what it says, simple, and works great. Tested on Vista SP1.
__philippe
on 2017-04-08 15:40
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AcroPAD |
PDFproducer converts plain text into PDF documents. It does not require Acrobat to be installed on the system, since it does not uses any component of Acrobat to produce PDF files. You have a choice of 3 page sizes, different orientation as well as up to 3 fonts.
Site offline, linking to archive.org
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PDFproducer.exe. |
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PS RAI
on 2007-09-13 04:19
Very very Good !!! Develop somthing to convert Word/Excel etc to PDF without having to go through aquisition and installation of Printer driver
P Smith
on 2009-01-25 12:17
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PDFproducer is not fancy and will produce text-only PDFs in only one of three fonts, and the entire document is only one font size, but it's quick and it works very well. |