

SwifDoo PDF is a utility for Windows PC that enables you to not only annotate PDF documents, but to edit the contents too. Is there a cheaper or better alternative to Adobe Acrobat? Yes.

There is a lack of easy PDF editing tools and if you have lost the original document the PDF was created from, like a Word document, what can you do? Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is one option, but it costs $14.99 a month subscription. You cannot change the text and images in a PDF easily and you can only add extra items to the document, like a comment or shape. There are annotation tools that enable you to add text, highlight text, add shapes, color, comments and so on, but most of them do not enable you to edit the original contents of the PDF. The biggest problem is that once created, a PDF is hard to change. PDFs work for everyone on every device, online and offline. Share a Word document and it can only be viewed by people that have Word, or alternative software that can import word. Everything s contained in the PDF and what you see is what you print too.

What makes them attractive is that they don’t rely on the user having the right fonts or software to display them. PDF files are used for a wide range of purposes, ranging from ebooks to reports, manuals, help files, business documents, forms and scans. Editing the contents of PDFs is hard, but SwifDoo and Sejda make it easier. PDF files are great for sharing documents, but if you don’t have access to the source, they are a pain to modify.
