PDFsam Enhanced allows conversion from PDF into MS Office file formats, but also enables direct editing of PDF documents without having to convert them to other formats. It also comes with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality. It enables 256-bit AES encryption, digital signing and annotation tools. To satisfy the demands of business users, PDFsam Enhanced comes with extra features mostly related to security and collaboration. In short, PDFsam makes handling multiple documents an easy prospect – something that shouldn’t be underestimated given the limitations of some mainstream PDF solutions. You can create new PDFs by splitting and merging files or selectively extracting pages from existing documents and combining them in a variety of ways. You can rotate pages, merge bookmarks, and even merge interactive forms. The basic version allows you to merge documents, including selectively merging pages and information within the documents.

When it comes to editing within and across documents, PDFsam is a powerful tool. The document manipulation functionalities are quite in-depth, and for those only looking to merge and split files quickly, this software is a winner.

The software is very simple and intuitive to use, despite having its own distinctive look. Version 4 is released as a self-contained application and includes a jlinked OpenJDK 11 runtime while version 3 requires a Java Runtime Environment 8 with JavaFx installed in order to run.As its name suggests, PDFsam is really focused on merging and splitting documents, and it does so with ease. PDFsam Basic is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License since version 3, previous versions are released under GPLv2. Official SCM repository for PDFsam Basic, a free and open source, multi-platform software designed to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files.

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