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Top 17 iPad Apps For PDF Users

The iPad 2 has been released and there isn’t any shortage of iPad app lists online. While you can find great lists online that have a bit of everything, you can sometimes find them lacking in one aspect or another, especially if you’re looking for a specific type of functionality.

For the PDF user, it may be even harder. What about specific PDF needs? To remedy that, here’s our iPad PDF catalog featuring both free and paid apps. They’re catered to the needs any PDF user might have or may come across.

Note that apps on this list do have overlapping features, but you’ll find that one app may be more versatile than another–or on the contrary, may have only the basics you need without all the frills. The choice is yours.

If you’re shopping around for an iPhone or iPod Touch, the lowest minimum requirement for some of these apps is iOS 3.0 and later. If you’re worried about updated iPad 2 iOS 4.3 compatibility for some apps, be sure to check in with the main developer site for the latest version or feature updates.

So whether you have a new iPad 2 or just got a refurbished first gen iPad, you’re bound to find something handy.

Storage

1. Dropbox

Dropbox One thing you’ll need when it comes to sharing large PDF files from your iPad is a solid document sharing service.With Dropbox you get 2 GB free with the ability to sync Mac, Windows, and Linux computers.

If you want power user features such as online file backup, fast web access, automatic sync, and file encryption, Dropbox is the way to go.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later

2. Box.net

Box.net

Here’s a great storage app that gives you 5 GB storage for free. With the free plan, you get a file size limit of 25 MB, mobile app access, and file sharing links for easy access.

Price: Free

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

3. SugarSync

SugarSync

Syncing and backing up your files with SugarSync adds a bit more convenience with 5 GB free storage and data sync for than one device. You can sync images, music, photos, and documents anytime, anywhere on multiple computers with the assurance that your file transfers are secure.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

PDF Editing

4. PDF Reader – Annotate, Sign and Edit PDF Documents (Document Expert)

PDF Reader allows you to organize and edit your PDF files, making it one of the world’s most popular apps for PDF management. With a few button clicks, you can annotate your content, highlight, underline, add shapes, signature and backup your files via an email or Cloud storage services. With this app you will optimize your work and become more productive in no time.

Price: Free
Requirements: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPad

5. PDF Expert 6: Read, annotate & edit PDF documents

PDF Expert 6 is an app for anyone who likes to read and edit their PDFs on iPad or iPhone. With this app you can quickly edit PDF text, replace images, hide sensitive information, insert stamps, markup documents, merge PDFs and much more. It’s design and friendly user interface makes it one of the easiest apps you can use.

Price: $9.99
Requirements: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

6. Good Reader

With Good Reader, you get some versatility along with the ability to mark up your PDFs. You can open Office, iWork files, hi-res images, and even audio and video files. For PDFs with a ton of hyperlinks, Good Reader has a handy feature that lets you toggle back and forth easily from page to page with a single tap.

Price: $4.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

7. PDF Highlighter

On top of all the standard features offered by mark up apps—note-taking, highlighting, and sketching, PDF highlighter has a few other special features you might enjoy. It contains an integrated browser for web links and Wikipedia lookup, annotations overview, and night mode viewing display.

Price: $6.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

PDF Viewers & Managers

8. ReaddleDocs

Readdle Pack is one of the most powerful and downloaded productivity app on Apple Store. Over 45 million people are happily using it everyday on their iPhones and iPads. With Readdle Productivity Pack you are getting three apps in one — Scanner Pro, PDF Expert, Printer Pro. All these apps are carefully designed, allowing you to quickly create, edit, and print your documents.

Price: $13.99
Requirements: Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

9. PDFCache

Web To PDF is a free app that gives you the opportunity to save your favorite online content to PDF and share it with others. This is really handy when you wish to highlight some data, insert text and shapes or add your personal notes. The converted files will look 100% as the original pages.

Price: Free
Requirements: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Developer: Darsoft Inc.

10. PDF Reader Lite

For those who aren’t heavy duty PDF users, sometimes the basics are all you need.This is where PDF Reader Lite comes in. While it allows you to store only 10 files, it has all the features of a standard PDF viewer–bookmarking, table of contents, and basic file management features.

Price: Free

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

11. iBooks

If you love to read and enjoy a good book, this is the right app for you. iBooks allows you to enjoy a good story, right from the comfort of your iPhone or iPad. There are numerous different genres you can choose from including classics, new authors, bestsellers, fantasy, sci-fi, autobiographies and even audiobooks.

Price: Free

Requirements: Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

12. Avenza PDF Maps

Avenza PDF Maps Ever receive a map in the PDF format? Here’s a geospatial app that not only lets you view PDF maps on your iPad but also lets you interact with them. Navigate through maps with regular iPad gestures, add/edit waypoints, find co-ordinates, and locate yourself with the iPad’s built-in GPS system.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

13. PDF Manager Professional

PDF Manager Professional PDF Manager gives you the versatility you need to handle PDFs on your iPad. With this app you have a few ways to easily manage and share your PDF files: share files via popular networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc.),through email, or offline.

Price: $3.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later

Other

14. Magachine

As you know, PDF files aren’t really optimized for mobile devices, giving you a less than stellar viewing experience. To improve that, there’s Magachine. According to the translated webpage, this app can turn your PDF into a magazine style layout for easier reading.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

15. PDF Presentation

With PDF Presenter you can store, manage and read all your PDF documents, with a single click. Import your PDFs from your emails or from the corresponding browser and keep everything well organized and prepared. This tool is simple to use and you can get controls over your presentation in no time.

Price: $6.99
Requirements: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

16. Print n Share for Advanced Printing

Undoutedly, having the option to print up a file directly from your iPad is a necessity.Print n Share for Advanced Printing is a feature packed app that can print to all printers via Mac or PC, remotely over 3G, and to most WiFi printers.

Price: $8.99

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

17. PDF Snapshot

*If you’re looking for more versatility with your PDF, check out PDF Snapshot. This app will extend your PDF applications to create, email and copy snapshots of images in your PDF. With the latest version, you can even annotate the PDF before you take the snapshot.

Price: Free
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later

The New Able2Extract 7 Is Here!

Now, it isn’t often that PDF conversion gets associated with simplicity. PDF converters are often too complex that only PDF experts can make full use of the software, leaving you stuck with using only the basic features for complex documents.

But, today we’re proud to announce the release of the latest version of our flagship product which eliminates that issue:Able2Extract 7.

In this new version, we’ve got enhanced conversion performance, a newly designed interface, and new and improved conversion capabilities.So whether you have a complex PDF to convert or a presentation due in the next hour, Able2Extract 7 can simplify and improve that conversion process.

This latest version of Able2Extract is the greatest improvement in our PDF conversion products to date.What’s new? What can it do? Read on.

First off, for those who have already used previous versions of Able2Extract, you’ll notice a newly designed user interface. The simple clean design makes it easier to navigate, search and convert your document.Open a file, select your data, and click to convert– all can be done from the toolbar.

Able2Extract Interface

One major feature of Able2Extract7 is that it’s the first PDF converter which can convert to all major Microsoft Office formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher.

Able2Extract Formats

Here’s a sneak peek at the new conversion improvements.

PDF to PowerPoint conversions are faster and more accurate. For those who need a better PDF to PowerPoint output, this conversion feature has been rebuilt with custom options that offer better control over your content.

Improved Excel custom conversion options. As great as the custom Excel conversion options were in the previous version, Able2Extract 7 gives you even more control over the row and column structure of table data being converted.You can tweak your conversion right from the Excel conversion toolbar.

Enhanced PDF to Word graphics and text manipulation features. We all know that as easy as a PDF to Word conversion may sound, it isn’t always the case. Thus, this latest version offers better conversion output and more precise graphics and text handling features.

New PDF to Publisher conversion. You’ve asked for it and here it is. Anyone needing a professional and cost effective publishing solution can now use Able2Extract 7 for PDF to Publisher conversions!

Able2Extract Publisher Conversion

And just as you can custom convert with Word, PowerPoint and Excel, you can also choose to custom convert with Publisher.

Performance wise, Able2Extract 7 can a lot more in a lot less space than most converters.In addition to all the conversion improvements, Able2Extract 7 can now support non-unicode font types.

This means users can convert PDF files in their native language: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arab and Greek. And despite these new features, the overall size of Able2Extract 7 has been reduced!

So check it out. The software is compatible with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2007. You can download Able2Extract 7 as a 7-day free trial to test out for yourself.

SlimPDF: The Smallest PDF Viewer Available

As a company bent on providing PDF users with the best conversion solutions, we’ve gone one step further and developed another solution to your PDF woes.

Today we release SlimPDF, a PDF viewer with the smallest download size—and it’s available for free.

With the security troubles Adobe Reader has currently gone through, SlimPDF can offer you a great alternative on more than one level. For one thing, SlimPDF cuts down on the size without sacrificing the functionality.

SlimPDF

Where popular PDF viewers like Adobe Reader weigh in at just over 26 MB, SlimPDF is a mere 1.43 MB download you can easily fit onto a USB for use on any computer.

SlimPDF Comparison

Also, as anyone who’s handled a PDF before may know, the way a PDF is viewed can be a priority. In SlimPDF’s 1MB file size, you can get the same essential viewing features that let you interact with any PDF file.

SlimPDF toolbar

You can access your favourite zooming features for hard to read text or quickly hit the navigation buttons to skip to the pages you need to see in overly long PDF files.

Searching is also made easy right from the toolbar with the search arrows located by the search box, and you can either search backwards or forwards within the file.

To boot, you can quickly check in on any updates or developments with the social media buttons in the right hand corner of the main toolbar.

If a free reader with a small download size and a clean GUI are your thing, check out SlimPDF here.

Convert PDF to HTML For Free

PDF to HTML Conversion

With DIY tools anyone can create and personalize a simple HTML webpage.

But as you may know, that simple HTML page can be made up of content coming from different types of formats, which means dealing with content like JPEG images, Word document text, and even the hard-to-edit PDF file.

For Word content and JPEGs you can easily copy and paste or upload image files into your HTML code with editing GUIs. But for PDF content, the conversion is best left to applications which, unfortunately, can’t guarantee they’ll make life any easier for you.

The problem lies in the small number of inconveniences: signing up with an email, downloading plug-ins, registering with personal information, or paying for full feature access.

The solution to this?—Our free online PDF to HTML converter.

To use it, simply upload your PDF file, click on Convert, and your PDF is quickly converted into HTML (conversion times depend on the size of your file).

Once the conversion is done, you’ll get a link directly on the page on which you can click to view your PDF content converted in HTML. You’re free to copy and reuse the generated code in your own HTML web pages and projects.

Moreover, the URL is permanent, meaning you can keep using it and share it online with your colleagues whenever you want.

You don’t need to sign up with an email, pay for any services, or wait for a converted file to be sent to you. It’s completely anonymous and available whenever you need it.

Just give the tool a try on your PDF and see if its convenience works for you.

How To Convert Word .Docx to .Doc For Free

DOCX to DOC

It’s sometimes taken for granted that the default. docx format can be used by all. Simply clicking on the Save icon, or pinky-middle fingering CTRL + S on the keyboard comes naturally and on instinct.

However, without the Office 2007 plug-in or viewer, you’re at a loss for opening, editing—or heck, even simply viewing, a .docx file on the fly. A real problem indeed if you’re at a public computer or on the go with a mobile device.

Well, no need to look any further for a solution because we’ve been hard at work and have developed a fully functional .Docx to .Doc converter.

Here’s the run down.

Just upload a .Docx file from your computer, click on convert, and once your file is done, click on the link provided to pick it up. Then simply save it to your computer.

The converter retains the quality of your original .docx file and can easily convert images included within the document. Below are some screenshots showing the converter in action.

It’s online for easy access whenever you need it. No registration or email addresses are required, and yes, it’s FREE.

So go ahead and arm yourself with a .docx file. Check it out yourself. You won’t be disappointed.