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UnityPDF v1.0.10.0

webfork on 7 Feb 2021
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jan 2015
  • Suggested by webfork

UnityPDF is a PDF manipulation software that allows you to drag-and-drop a series of documents and then order them before processing. Available operations include merge, split (one file per page), divide (split by file size or by X sections), extact/insert pages, rotate. You can also set usage permissions (allow printing or modification) with password-protection and options to view or remove file metadata.

Note: Program no longer in development. Linking to Softpedia / archive.org mirrors (thanks Midas).

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: DotNET Framework 2.0
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch UnityPDF.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PDFTK Builder
What's new?
  • Adding the russian translation.
  • Last freeware version (maybe the last official version downloadable, freeware or commercial). End of the project.
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Midas on 2015-02-07 18:48

Softpedia has portable UnityPDF v1.0.10.0: http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Office/PDF/Portable-UnityPDF.shtml (choose Softpedia mirror download, the external link points back to the expired domain).

webfork on 2015-02-07 23:47

Midas: Joby got the softpedia edit already but I added the archive.org homepage.

freakazoid on 2020-08-21 03:22

I had to merge some PDF files just now and the usual app I use, PDFTK Builder, popped up an error for the first time since I've used it.

Needed to find another app and UnityPDF worked just fine.

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NAPS2 v6.1.2

vevy on 23 Dec 2020
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Jul 2019
  • Suggested by Midas

NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP or 7Z package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete contributors.txt, license.txt and unnecessary language files
  3. Launch NAPS2.Portable.exe
Similar/alternative apps: WinScan2PDF

File Blender v0.36

billon on 12 Sep 2019
  • 22MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Sep 2016
  • Suggested by Cornflower

File Blender is a simple drag-and-drop file media file conversion tool to quickly and simply change basic aspects of files including format, with basic quality and effects that average users will need for daily use. Can modify a long list of image, audio, and video formats, as well as split/combine PDF/TIFF files.

The program even includes optional encryption component and options to cleanup/obfuscate CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
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 File Blender.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed: Ability to use perentheses in gui functions.
    ~Gui:Select(Audio,Yes[],No[hello()])~
  • Fixed: Dragging the main window when action menu was open caused an error.
  • Changed: Action button text alignment can now be configured.
  • Added: Ability to set GUI width.
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allclownsareevil on 2011-06-23 02:37

This really is an awesome piece of kit, thank you to the author, Danny.

juverax on 2019-09-12 09:12

The links to the website and to the download are broken.

File Blender v.0.36 is listed on Softpedia:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/File-Blender.shtml

and can be downloaded from Softpedia:
https://softpedia-secure-download.com/dl/f7f5d7910ee237abccac8c09a359b7b5/5d7a437c/100133268/software/office/fileblender.zip

webfork on 2019-09-12 10:30

@juverax: thanks for the mirror but I just retested the native link and I'm not having any issues. Maybe a brief downtime?

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JPdfBookmarks 2.5.2

webfork on 14 May 2017
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Nov 2011
  • Suggested by Cornflower

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.

Category:
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.
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2010-05-25 15:11

I'd like Java and .Net categories...
Until then...

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PDFTK Builder Enhanced v4.1.6

Andrew Lee on 15 Dec 2021
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 May 2021
  • Suggested by Cornflower

PDFTK Builder Enhanced is a tool to combine (collate), split, decrypt, add background/stamp, password protect PDF files etc. It is a GUI frontend to the command-line PDFtk.

Note that this project is a fork of Version 3 of PDFTK Builder by Angus Johnson to:

  • Enhance the user interface
  • Add PDF operations and options
  • Update the program to be compatible with later versions of PDFtk
As such, it can be considered as a major upgrade to the original program.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PdftkBuilder.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: UnityPDF
What's new?
  • Added: After a password has been set and the panel is closed, the caption on the Document Protection panel button will now be displayed in red to indicate that encryption of output PDFs is in effect.
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2019-10-03 13:33

libiconv2.dll does not seem to in setup. Works without it.

Cornflower on 2020-10-14 10:44

Works in Windows 10, but noticed recently that it creates a folder in the temp location
%TEMP%\pdftkb

I haven't found any files created in that location, observing it during a few tests; it is just an empty folder., so PDFTK Builder is not completely stealth in Windows 10 (still my favourite PDF utility since 2003)

PAFuser on 2022-03-25 17:06

Also available from PortableApps.com: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/pdftk_builder_portable Version 4.1.6

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ExifToolGUI v5.16

lintalist on 29 Dec 2020
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Apr 2015
  • Suggested by AlephX

ExifToolGUI is a tool for viewing/editing metadata inside a long list of file types including document, audio, video, image, PDF, and more. For images, the program can both view and edit metadata information such as camera/device used, settings on the device, and even map the location the picture was taken if the camera has GPS capability. The program also supports IPTC and XMP tags, has batch capability, and can import/export all tags.

For privacy (and file size), the program can remove all metadata from selected files.

The program is a front-end for the cross-platform ExifTool. It extracts the content of ExifTool.exe to a temp folder under the user's folder, along with thumbs, if enabled.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application Folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: ExifTool: Open Source: Perl License, GUI: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download ExifToolGUI (look for the green link near the top) and then ExifTool ZIP (labeled "Windows Executable")
  2. Extract the contents of both ZIP files to a folder of your choice
  3. Rename the file exiftool(-k).exe to exiftool.exe
  4. Launch ExifToolGUI.exe
Similar/alternative apps: ExifDataView, JPEG and PNG Stripper
What's new?
  • Bug fixed shifting some date/time values.
Latest comments
gms9813 on 2012-04-10 18:56

Disregard that, I just got it working. The instructions were a little confusing.

webfork on 2012-05-02 23:01

gms9813: thanks -- updated the instructions a little, hopefully its easier

webfork on 2013-11-17 01:18

Everytime I use it, this program surprises me away with a LOT of data about files. If ever you want to try and understand the history, author, or other details about a given file, ExifTool is a great place to start.

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PDFArranger v1.10.0

Andrew Lee on 11 Jan 2024
  • 81MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jul 2023
  • Suggested by Midas

PDFArranger is an editor program to merge, split, rotate, crop, rearrange, duplicate and interleave pages. The program supports drag-and-drop insert of other PDF files, auto-crop whitespace, rotation of individual or any combination of pages, scale size (e.g. tabloid to letter size), and more.

The program can print "restricted" PDFs, split pages, export components of the PDF to separate files, or import standard images into a PDF document.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPLv3
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch pdfarranger.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PDF XChange Editor, PDFtkbuilder
What's new? See: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/releases/,
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2023-07-11 08:26

A few operational changes in v1.10.0 I've noticed:

Loads more quickly (my perception)
It does Booklet correctly.
Split pages works easier.
New feature: Merge Pages (onto the same sheet)!

Cornflower on 2024-01-11 05:11

This note on the download page:

(As the Windows binaries of version 1.10.0 are supplied with Python 3.10, they are not released with 1.10.1. Windows users should keep using version 1.10.0)

Andrew Lee on 2024-01-11 22:48

@Cornflower: Noted, changes have been reverted. Thanks!

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RotPDF v0.80

webfork on 23 Sep 2017
  • 195KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jul 2004
  • Suggested by I am Baas

RotPDF is a tiny program to rotate PDFs by 90, 180 & 270 degrees with support for drag-and-drop operation.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RotPDF.exe.
Latest comments
Emka on 2013-12-23 11:39

Tried to rotate pages in a scanned magazine article, resulted in an error message.

webfork on 2013-12-26 19:42

That's weird that it doesn't work. Anyway, PDF X-Change (which I recommend) and X-PDFsam will both handle that.

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WinScan2PDF v8.81 Updated

Ennovy on 3 May 2024
  • 206KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 May 2024
  • Suggested by Emka

WinScan2PDF is a very small program for scanning documents and saving them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinScan2PDF_p.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Not Another PDF Scanner 2
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/WinScan2PDF/History.
Latest comments
opsimathic on 2017-08-12 08:51

@Emka - The first item under OPTIONS look like you can set the utility to delete the jpgs when you exit the program. I have never been very sure the program actually does what it says, so I simply use the second item in OPTIONS to check and delete as necessary. Periodically I use the jpg instead the pdf so I actually find this useful. Bottom line is that I wish the author would clean all this up a bit more, but I find the utility so useful (use it every day almost) that I am prepared to work around the idiosyncrasies.

MIKLO on 2017-08-26 14:06

@__philippe thanks for the help I appreciate very much.
MIKLO

Emka on 2019-07-30 01:11

@MIKLO & _philippe: It now seems possible to select a folder for temporary files, so you can change the default location in AppData to the app's folder for example.

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Swift PDF v1.1

Checker on 5 Aug 2014
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by AlephX

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.

Category:
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.
Latest comments
Rekrul on 2011-01-16 06:06

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.

robzuc on 2013-11-07 09:48

The download link seems to show just an empty page

Checker on 2013-11-07 16:43

@ robzuc: Thanks ... links changed.

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