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Promo2day Review Burnaware PDF Shaper 9.0 Review
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PDF Shaper is a set of feature-rich PDF tools that makes it simple to split, merge, watermark, sign, protect, optimize, convert, encrypt and decrypt your PDF documents. The software is optimized for low CPU resource usage and operates in batch mode, allowing users to process multiple PDF files while doing other work on their computers. PDF Shaper's clean, intuitive interface allows users to become productive in just a few minutes.

Homepage:

http://www.pdfshaper.com/index.html

Download: 

http://www.pdfshaper.com/download.html

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PDF Shaper Editions:

PDF Shaper is available in three edition - Free, Premium and Professional.

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Current version:  9.0

Released May 15, 2019

Installation:

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User Interface:

Very friendly, simple and easy to use

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Upper toolbar:

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Program Menus:

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Free trial:  10 days with all features enabled. After the trial is over you will need to purchase a license to continue using the program and enjoy all its features

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Highlights:

Productivity:

PDF Shaper's clean, intuitive interface allows users to become productive in just a few minutes. PDF Shaper is optimized for high-DPI monitors and low CPU resource usage, even during the CPU-intensive conversion operations. The software runs under Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32 and 64 bits).

Security:

With its emphasis on security and privacy, PDF Shaper lets users add, update or remove PDF metadata, encrypt and protect document with password and set document permissions. In addition, the software can add one or more digital signatures to PDF documents and decrypt previously encrypted files.

User Interface:


PDF Shaper's user interface is compatible with 2880x1800 display resolution and can be automatically adjusted for your screen size.

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Various Formats:

Besides PDF documents, PDF Shaper is able to process RTF and standard TXT files, MS Word DOC and DOCX documents and various image types.

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Advanced Tools:

PDF Shaper is optimized for low CPU resource usage and operates in batch mode, processes command-line arguments and supports OCR.

Features:

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Convert:
 
Convert PDF to Image, PDF to RTF, PDF to TXT file 
Convert Image to PDF, DOC to PDF, PDF to Image-based PDF 

Extract:
 
Extract text, images and pages, extract text using OCR 

Delete:

Delete images and pages

Protect:
 
Set document password and permission, sign PDF, edit metadata 

Modify:
 
Merge or split documents, rotate, crop, insert and move pages 

Watermark:
 
Enumerate pages, add image or text watermark

Benefits:


Command-line support 
Batch file processing 
Optical character recognition support 
Compatible with high-DPI resolution 
Optimized PDF document output 
Unicode support 
Multilingual user interface 
Built-in PDF document viewer 
External PDF reader and printer 
Low CPU resource usage 
MS Word DOC and DOCX support 
BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, EMF support 
Compatible with Windows XP to 10 

PDF Shaper v9.0 NEW Features:


New Features:

New user interface - all elements written from scratch.
New tools - PDF to PDF, insert pages, move pages.
New options:
PDF to TXT - add page number, process selected pages
PDF to RTF - format with tabs, process selected pagesm
DOC to PDF - image quality, text placement, metadata
Delete Pages - metadata
Delete Images - metadata
Set Password - encryption level
Metadata - update metadata
Add Signature - additional signature
Crop Pages - margins (left, top, right, bottom)
Page Numbering - text position, margins, process selected pages
New command-line options for all tools.
Added support of P12 certificate files.
New file naming algorithm.

Enhancements:

Improved all tools.
Updated installer and help file.
Optimized for 2880x1800 display resolution.
Updated engines for DOC to PDF, PDF to RTF and OCR.


Purchase a License:

http://www.pdfshaper.com/buy.html

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Update Subscription:

When you purchase standard license, you obtain a perpetual license for that version. The update subscription provides maintenance updates and upgrades for that license at a fraction of the cost of a new license. Your first year of update subscription is included with your purchase. When you purchase lifetime license, you can download and install all future maintenance updates and upgrades for free.

Now Let's discuss the program Features and Uses in more details:

First when you launch the program; you need to add your PDF document using add file or simple drag and drop on the program UI. You can also add folder containing your PDF files. Now you can do many actions to your PDF file as I will explain here. Also the right click menu of the added PDF files offers you some other options

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Convert:

PDF to TXT:

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This tool allows you to convert PDF document to standard TXT file that contains unformatted text and easily recognized by any text editing or word processing program.
 
PDF to RTF:

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This tool allows you to convert PDF document to RTF file which include extra information about font style, formatting, images, and more.

PDF to Image:

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This tool allows you to convert pages in PDF document to image with specified type and DPI value.

PDF to PDF:

This tool allows you to convert PDF document to image-only PDF which contain just the images of pages, without an underlying text layer. This feature makes the document not searchable and text usually cannot be modified or marked up.
 
Image to PDF:

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This tool allows you to convert regular image file to PDF or combine several images and save them to PDF document. 
Supported formats : BMP, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WMF, EMF.
 
DOC to PDF:

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This tool allows you to convert DOC or DOCX document to PDF. 

Extract:

Extract Text:

This tool allows you to extract text from PDF file. Simply select PDF file then the program will extract text and display it in a new window. 
 
Extract Text (OCR):

This tool allows you to extract text from unsearchable or image-only PDF file. 
 
Extract Images:

This tool allows you to extract all images from PDF document. 
 
Extract Pages:

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This tool allows you to extract pages from PDF document.

Delete:

Delete Pages:

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This tool allows you to delete selected pages from PDF document.
 
Delete Images:


This tool allows you to delete images from PDF document.

Protect:

Set Password:

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 This tool allows you to encrypt your PDF document by setting passwords. In addition, you can restrict certain features, such as printing and editing.

Decrypt:

This tool allows you to decrypt PDF document using open password.

Edit Metadata:

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 This tool allows you to add, edit or delete metadata of PDF document. It includes information about your PDF document; for example; author, subject, keywords and so on

Add Signature:

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This tool allows you to apply digital signature to a PDF document. 

Modify:

Merge

This tool allows you to merge two or more PDF documents into one PDF file.
 
Split:

 This tool allows you to split source PDF by number of files or pages.

Rotate Pages:

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This tool allows you to rotate pages in PDF document.

Crop Pages:

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This tool allows you to define the part of the page you want to be visible when you later display or print it. For example; remove a white margin, adjust the visible area in all the pages of a PDF file. 
 
Insert Pages:

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This tool allows you to load pages from an existing PDF document and inserted into current PDF document.

Move Pages:

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This tool allows you to move and reorder pages in PDF document.

Watermark:



Insert Image:

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This tool allows you to watermark PDF document with image file. 
Supported image types: GIF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP.

Insert Text:

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This tool allows you to watermark PDF document with text.

Page Numbering:

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This tool allows you to add page numbers to PDF document.

PDF Document Info

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Preview PDF document:

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Conclusion:

PDF Shaper is a comprehensive set of tools that make it easy for you to tailor the content of PDF documents. It supports different formats; in addition to the PDF documents, the program can aslo process RTF and standard TXT files, MS Word DOC and DOCX documents and various image types. It has many tools that will let you convert, extract, delete, protect, modify and watermark any PDF document 

Important Links:

FAQs:

http://www.pdfshaper.com/faq.html

Download previous versions:

http://www.pdfshaper.com/downloads/backup/

Support:

http://www.pdfshaper.com/support.html

Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/burnaware

Facebook account:

https://www.facebook.com/Burnawarecompany/
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#2
Thanks for an indept analysis.
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#3
Thanks for the very good review, Tarek. Editing the metadata draw my attention on this software.

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