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PDF-XChange Pro

A document suite covering editing, conversion, and virtual printing in one package, with the editor, the tools collection, and the standard virtual printer all in their unlocked configuration.

Version 11.0.1 486 MB Windows 10 / 11 (32-bit and 64-bit) Updated 5 days ago

Overview

What this release is

The dominant document application is enormous, slow to start, and increasingly built around a subscription. This suite does the same work in a fraction of the footprint, opens a large document in about a second, and puts editing, conversion, form handling, and printing into one package rather than three separate products.

The editor is the centrepiece. Text in an existing document can be edited directly rather than covered with a white box, pages can be inserted, extracted, rotated, and reordered from a thumbnail panel, and the full annotation set covers highlighting, stamps, measurement, and threaded comments for review cycles. Redaction actually removes the content rather than drawing a black rectangle over it.

Optical character recognition is included and it is unusually good. A scanned page becomes searchable and selectable text with the original layout preserved, output can be written as a searchable overlay or as fully converted text, and multi language documents are handled without a separate pass per language.

The tools collection handles the batch work, covering merging, splitting, watermarking, header and footer stamping, and format conversion across large sets of files at once. The virtual printer creates documents from any application that can print, with control over compression, embedded fonts, and security settings.

Feature set

What you get

Direct text editing

Change text in an existing document in place, with font matching and reflow rather than a patched over box.

Optical recognition

Scanned pages become searchable text with the original layout preserved and multiple languages in one pass.

True redaction

Removes the underlying content rather than covering it, so nothing survives underneath the mark.

Form handling

Create, fill, and extract form data, including field validation and calculation across a document set.

Batch tools

Merge, split, watermark, stamp, and convert across hundreds of files in a single operation.

Virtual printer

Produce documents from any application that can print, with control over compression, fonts, and security.

Changes in this build

What changed

Recognition accuracy improved on low quality scans and faxed originals
Faster rendering on documents with heavy vector content
Batch tools extended with additional stamping and numbering options
Virtual printer updated for current print subsystem behaviour
Fixed the font substitution error when editing text in documents with subset embedded fonts

Installation

How to install it

Uninstall any previous version and its virtual printer before starting.
Extract the archive and run setup as administrator.
Select the components you need, since the tools collection and printer can be installed separately from the editor.
Apply the included activation step before the first launch.
Set the program as the default document handler through the Windows defaults panel rather than from inside the program.

Hardware

System requirements

Processor	Any Intel or AMD processor from the last ten years
Memory	4 GB minimum, 8 GB for recognition on large document sets
Graphics	No dedicated graphics required
Storage	2 GB free space including recognition language data
Display	1280 x 768 or higher
System	Windows 7 through Windows 11

Package

Release information

Title	PDF-XChange Pro
Version	11.0.1
Developer	Tracker Software
Category	Office Suites
Platform	Windows 10 / 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Package size	486 MB
Interface languages	Multilingual (20 interface languages)
Release identifier	BS-11001471
Listed	3 years ago
Last rebuilt	5 days ago
Total downloads	97,164

Questions

Before you start

Does it replace the standard document reader?

It can. Set it as the default handler in the Windows defaults panel and it takes over the file type.

Is recognition included or an extra?

Included in this package, along with the language data for the supported set.

Can it edit a scanned document?

After recognition, yes. Before that the page is an image and only annotation tools apply.

Does the virtual printer work from any application?

Yes. Anything that can print can produce a document through it, including older applications.