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Compare the Top PDF Software in Africa as of October 2025 - Page 5

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    LightPDF

    LightPDF

    Wangxu Technology Co.,Ltd.

    LightPDF was designed to allow everyone to process PDF documents in the easiest way possible. Indeed, LightPDF comes with an easy-to-use interface. With this program, you can perfectly read PDF, edit or convert PDF. Built-in PDF editing features: Modify a PDF: add texts, annotate, insert links, add headers and footers. Convert PDF to other formats: Word, Excel, PPT, JPG, PNG, HTML, etc. Manage PDF pages: insert or delete pages, rotate pages, extract, replace, split or merge pages. Sign a PDF: add a manual or digital signature. Lock PDF: Add a password to your PDF document. Other tools: OCR, compress PDF, add background, etc. This all-in-one online PDF solution includes over 20 practical PDF tools which may simplify your digital work and boost productivity. You are able to edit, convert, compress, merge, annotate, watermark and manage PDFs or use the OCR functions without a hitch.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Geekersoft PDF Editor
    Geekersoft PDF Editor is a PDF file processing tool, with the main editing and conversion functions, which can help you edit PDF like Word. You can modify text, insert text, insert pictures, etc. Convert PDF to a variety of formats, such as: Word, PPT, Excel, JPEG and other formats. There are merge files, split PDF files, remove watermarks in PDF files, add passwords to protect your files. Add comments to complete your file content and more. iPhone data recovery software with the highest recovery success rate supports rapid data recovery directly from IOS devices. Image compressor uses the optimal compression algorithm to achieve better image compression than other software. Easily realize text recognition, handwriting recognition and photo recognition, and extract and convert text from image or scanned PDF to word, PPT, TXT, etc. The efficient PDF conversion tool can easily achieve and convert PDF to Word, Picture (JPG/PNG), PPT, Excel, TXT, etc.
    Starting Price: $19.99 per month
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    ReportLayer

    ReportLayer

    ReportLayer

    ReportLayer turns JSON data into crisp, clean printable PDF documents, using templates that you can design with a WYSIWYG designer. And everything can run entirely in the browser, or in the cloud. The output PDF on the right side is generated entirely in the browser, without a server round-trip. Try out some of the demo templates to see a few of the things you can do with the designer. Try out the ReportLayer Playground to design, save, and use your own templates for free. For all the features of ReportLayer including private templates shared with your team, versioning, and much more, create a free ReportLayer account. ReportLayer generates documents entirely client-side in the browser, so you can output PDFs without sensitive data being sent to any servers. If you'd rather generate PDFs in the cloud, you can do that too, using our easy API and JavaScript SDK. You can even run ReportLayer on-premise so you can keep everything inside your building.
    Starting Price: $79 per month
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    PDFKit.NET 5.0

    PDFKit.NET 5.0

    TallComponents

    Create and manipulate PDF documents. Split, append, stamp, encrypt, extract, fill, and more. PDFKit.NET is a 100% managed (verifiable) .NET class library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. It consists of just a single assembly that can be xcopy-deployed. It has no dependencies other than the .NET framework. Central to PDFKit.NET is a consistent and highly intuitive object model consisting of classes like document, page collection, page, canvas, shape, bookmark, annotation, field, etc. The focus of the development team is always to ease the task of integrating our class library into a larger application. Fill text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc., and save the form either editable or flattened with the PDFKit.NET 5.0. With PDFKit.NET 5.0 you can populate and consume dynamic XFA documents with the new XFA processor API. Extract all graphics on a page as a collection of shapes with PDFKit 5.0. Shapes can be text, images, and curves.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    TallPDF.NET 5.0

    TallPDF.NET 5.0

    TallComponents

    Generate PDF on the fly, from scratch, use code, XML/XSL, or a combination. Central to TallPDF.NET is a consistent and intuitive object model consisting of layout classes like document, section, text paragraph, table, header, footer, etc. Among the specializations of class paragraph is drawing. Use it to draw many types of shapes such as lines, bezier curves, and even barcodes. Use pens and brushes to draw outlines and fills. Instead of building a Document programmatically, you can load it (partly) from XML. In general, you will use XSL to transform from a given XML schema to XML that can be consumed by TallPDF.NET. Headers and footers are added to each page that matches the specified page traits (first, odd, even, last). Include dynamic content such as current page number and total page count. Add Tables to a section. Add rows to a table. Add cells to a row and add any paragraph to a cell. Specify spacings, margins, borders, and backgrounds.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    PitStop Pro
    The comprehensive PDF tool for prepress. Confidently preflight and edit PDF files for print. Automatic fixes make prepress more efficient. The global user base of over 135,000. Adobe Acrobat® plug-in ensures standardized PDF. PitStop Pro is the industry standard for PDF validation. It is the one tool that gives prepress power over PDF. PitStop solves pre-flighting, editing, repairing, and reporting for any PDF challenge your team will face. PitStop Pro will generate a preflight report based on the benchmarks that you choose. The interactive report can be as basic or detailed as you require to suit your customers. A PitStop Pro preflight report contains a clickable list of warnings and errors that visually indicate exactly where the issue is located. PitStop provides a molecular look into the construction of a PDF file. It allows prepress personnel to dissect a PDF file to explore and investigate its components and its structure.
    Starting Price: $32 per month
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    PDFRasterizer.NET 4.0
    Render a PDF page as PNG or JPG at any resolution. Starting with version 4.0, we use the Skia 2D graphics library to render PDF pages. It is possible to render directly to a Skia surface. Render a page to single-page TIFF or a document to multi-page TIFF. Specify options such as pixel format, compression and resolution.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    PDFMonkey

    PDFMonkey

    PDFMonkey

    PDFMonkey is the solution to handle your PDF generation needs. Web technologies, a simple REST API, it's never been so easy to make beautiful documents. Stop wasting time! Save development time, no more PDF building code to write, no more configuration, no dependency hell. We handle all the complexity for you.
    Starting Price: €15 per month
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    doqs

    doqs

    doqs

    Upload a PDF file as a template. Files containing a form will be detected and imported automatically. Adjust and create field annotations in our interactive template builder. Pass your data as a JSON Payload to our API. Chose the programming language or tool you are most familiar with, e.g. JavaScript, Python or a No-Code integration like Zapier. Directly get your PDF from our API. It is that simple! No extra calls are necessary to retrieve the PDF file. Use doqs to automatically generate documents such as commercial agreements, lease agreements, or any other real estate firm. Use doqs to fill out your national tax declaration forms, create invoices or fill bank account opening documents.
    Starting Price: €25 per month
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    Coolmuster PDF Creator Pro
    This is not a single-functional tool, it is a multi-functional PDF Maker program. With it, you can create your own PDF files from 7 different formats, so that you can share and manage files on computer more effectively. Want to convert a batch of PDF files to PDF or only want to convert the specific file? No matter what is your converting needs, this tool can meet your demands. In order to satisfy all user's needs, this PDF Maker Pro have set lots of options for your reference. With the different options, you can choose the one you like to add, edit or convert files without any limitation. Don't want to spend too much time on creating files? Just try this PDF Creator Pro. With it, you can create PDF files from different files at seconds. You are allowed to customize the PDF's page size, document margins and security options. Owner password, user password or detailed permissions can be applied to the output PDF files.
    Starting Price: $19.95 1 Month License
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    Lumin PDF

    Lumin PDF

    Lumin PDF

    We are the bridge between paper and the cloud, our seamless PDF workflows help you achieve greater impact with less administration. Edit PDFs within Google Workspace. Open Lumin directly from Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Classroom. Uploading old documents to the cloud has never been easier. Get your team on the same page with real-time feedback and manual tools. Submit work, negotiate terms, and sign everything with Lumin Sign. Enjoy our comprehensive free plan for K-12 teachers and students. Our products are implemented using a rigorous and constantly updated security system. We also have a Google-verified storage system that ensures your files never have to leave Google Drive. Collaborate with your current colleagues and attract new ones with Lumin and Lumin Sign. Our innovative solutions are great on their own, but together they're even better. Lumin reduces the comings and goings of your team. With a cloud workspace integrated with Google, you can collaborate in real-time.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    aiPDF

    aiPDF

    aiPDF

    From financial reports to academic essays, and messy docs to massive ebooks, we take it all. Ask questions, extract information, and summarize everything with our advanced and friendly AI. Responses are double-checked and backed by sources extracted from the uploaded documents. We are building a multi-modal tool that can work with any type of input. While we store your uploaded docs to keep your chats smooth and your user info to make logins a breeze, we're all about privacy. Our AI digs into your documents, bringing out insights and answers to your questions. It's like having a personal assistant who's read everything you've ever uploaded. We treat your documents like top-secret files. Only you have the key to your data vault, ensuring your information stays yours. All you need is an internet connection and a web browser. Our app runs online, so there's nothing to download or install. You can easily export the AI's responses for your convenience.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    PDFHub

    PDFHub

    VectorViewer

    PDFHub is your one-stop destination for all your PDF file conversion needs. We offer a comprehensive range of PDF-related services and features, including file conversion, editing, and content extraction, all in a fast, reliable, and secure manner. With our simple, intuitive, and user-friendly interface, you can easily convert various types of files into PDF format, including Word documents, RTF files, text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and images such as JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and SVG. Our PDF conversion service is fast, efficient, and accurate, ensuring that your documents are converted into high-quality PDFs with all the original formatting intact.
    Starting Price: $9.99/month
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    Instafill

    Instafill

    Instafill

    Instafill.ai is a next-generation AI form filler designed for both individuals who want to fill out personal PDF forms and businesses that need to handle forms for clients or employees. By leveraging the most recent reasoning AI models that automatically extract data from a variety of sources - images, text documents, partially filled PDFs, or CSV files - Instafill populates each field with speed and precision. The AI validates every entry for error-free, compliant submissions. Key Features: - Profile Management: Create and store separate profiles for each individual, making it easy to reuse details across multiple documents. - Custom Form Support: For unique or specialized PDFs, simply provide text instructions on how each field should be filled. Instafill follows your guidelines to ensure accuracy. - Batch Filling & CSV Import: When a business needs to fill out forms for numerous employees, Instafill imports data from CSV and auto-fills every form in one efficient batch.
    Starting Price: $65.99/month
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    PDF Buddy

    PDF Buddy

    PDF Buddy

    The best online PDF editor you'll ever use. Fill out forms, add signatures, white out, and highlight without breaking a sweat. Edit PDFs on your PC, Mac, or Chromebook. There's no software to install, all you need is the web browser you're using right now. PDF Buddy uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and AES-256 bit encryption, to ensure your files are always protected. Stop messing with printers and scanners every time you need to fill out a PDF form. You've got better things to do. Edit up to 3 PDFs for free each month, or try our premium options for unlimited use. It's a much cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat. If you're still printing out your PDF files, you should be ashamed of yourself. It's time to go green with PDF Buddy. PDF Buddy lets you edit up to 3 PDF files for free each month, in return for sharing our link on your social networks (Facebook, Twitter, or Google+). You can also purchase pay-as-you-go credits to edit additional files or get unlimited access.
    Starting Price: $7.99 per month
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    Look Scanned

    Look Scanned

    Look Scanned

    Look Scanned is a fast, secure, and user-friendly solution for creating lifelike scanned documents—all from your browser. Leveraging WebAssembly, it instantly converts PDFs, images, and Office documents into scanned-like PDFs while preserving original formatting. Because everything runs locally on your device, your data never leaves your computer—ensuring complete privacy. Customize scan settings, adjust the look in real time, and enjoy a WYSIWYG preview. Once loaded, Look Scanned even works offline, making it ideal for travel or areas with limited internet. Compatible with all modern devices and browsers, Look Scanned is the perfect way to streamline and simplify your document workflow.
    Starting Price: $1.99/month
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    LynxPDF

    LynxPDF

    Kdan Mobile Software

    LynxPDF is a one-stop enterprise-level PDF solution. It integrates core functions such as editing, conversion, signing, and encryption while supporting advanced enterprise features, including offline capabilities, self-hosted deployment, batch processing, and single sign-on (SSO) to ensure document security and optimize enterprise workflows. LynxPDF also supports Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), which leverages AI-driven techniques to capture key information from documents, images, and tables, improving data processing efficiency and reducing manual input errors. By providing a flexible and secure environment, LynxPDF empowers enterprises to enhance document management efficiency, strengthen data security, and seamlessly integrate AI-driven document processing into their business workflows.
    Starting Price: $1349.90/permanent/10 seats
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    PDF4

    PDF4

    PDF4

    PDF4 is an all‑in‑one mobile PDF toolkit for scanning, editing, converting, and securing documents directly on your device. It combines robust editing features, like modifying text, images, and pages, merging and splitting files, reordering or rotating content, with powerful conversion tools to transform images or Office formats into PDFs and vice versa (e.g., PDF to Word, PowerPoint, or Excel). It supports OCR for searchable text extraction, password protection, annotations, and form filling. Users can compress files, crop pages, add metadata, watermarks, or barcodes, and leverage automation such as job‑flows for batch processing on a desktop. Extended integrations include browser extensions, Zapier/Power Automate connectors, and Microsoft Teams/Outlook add‑ins, enabling seamless PDF workflows across platforms.
    Starting Price: Free
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    VeryPDF

    VeryPDF

    VeryPDF

    VeryPDF provides a comprehensive suite of PDF tools, multimedia applications, and development packages for Windows, macOS, and the web, covering every stage of document processing. Its flagship offerings include converters for PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, TXT, images or any other format; a full-featured PDF Editor that lets you modify content, metadata and page elements or generate PDFs from Word, PowerPoint, Excel and text files; a virtual printer (docPrint) for high-quality printing and manual conversion; OCR-powered converters for scanned documents; utilities for splitting, merging, watermarking, stamping, encrypting, decrypting, compressing and repairing PDFs; form-filling, table- and text-extraction tools; flipbook and multimedia converters; and command-line SDKs and APIs for seamless integration into custom applications.
    Starting Price: $39.95 per month
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    Adobe Acrobat Studio
    Adobe Acrobat Studio is the newest evolution of Adobe’s trusted PDF platform, combining AI-powered insights with industry-leading PDF and e-signature tools. It introduces PDF Spaces, a conversational knowledge hub where users can chat with documents, summarize content, and receive precise citations. With an integrated AI Assistant, Acrobat Studio helps businesses and individuals quickly understand contracts, reports, and other critical files. The solution also includes Adobe Express Premium, enabling the creation of flyers, infographics, and social posts with professional templates and AI-generated design tools. Security features like Protect PDF, SSL encryption, and compliant e-signatures ensure safe sharing and collaboration. Trusted by over 5 million companies, Acrobat Studio is designed to help people work faster, smarter, and more creatively.
    Starting Price: $24.99/month
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    pdf2docx

    pdf2docx

    Artifex

    pdf2docx is a Python library that uses PyMuPDF to extract data from PDF files, parse their layouts according to rules, and generate corresponding .docx files via python-docx. It supports conversion of text, images, tables, and other structural elements; it includes tools to extract tables, handle formatting, and preserve layout as much as possible. It offers both a command-line interface and a graphical user interface. The internal architecture is modular; it includes packages for handling pages, layout, tables, images, shape paths, text spans/blocks, and other elements, enabling fine control over how PDF content is mapped into Word documents. Developers can use the API for batch conversions or integrate it into workflows; there's documentation on installation (from PyPI or source), usage, and technical details of layout-parsing, table extraction, and internal modules. The project is open source, hosted on GitHub, and made available under its license with no warranty.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CleverPDF

    CleverPDF

    CleverPDF

    The team at CleverPDF has been providing document reconstruction solutions for years. In 2017, we decided to launch this website, providing PDF conversion and editing tools online, for FREE, so PDF users can easily deal with the daily task all in the web browser. We also partnered with the industrial leading PDF solution provider and provide a desktop version for Mac and Windows users. The cleverPDF team will keep improving our website and service. Hope you enjoy it! Added 5 more new features, including odt to PDF, reorder and delete pages, extract images and image converter. Improve Asian characters conversion feature, the upgrade will greatly enhance the conversion quality for PDF in Chinese. Converting Word to PDF is super easy with CleverPDF. Just 2 steps, upload your Word document and click 'Start conversion' button, we will do the rest in our servers. You can download the file instantly.
    Starting Price: Free
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    iText

    iText

    Apryse

    Now part of the Apryse family, iText is one of the best-documented and most versatile PDF SDKs in the world. The open-source iText Core library features a powerful layout engine and intuitive high-level APIs for document creation and manipulation, digital signing and validation, and much more. It has built-in support for PDF 2.0, all variants of PDF/A and PDF/UA, FIPS-140-2 and the very latest ISO standards for digital signatures and encryption. You can extend iText's capabilities even further, with add-ons for comprehensive HTML/XML and CSS templating, global language and writing systems, secure document redaction, OCR, document optimization, and working with dynamic XFA. iText Core is free to use under the AGPLv3 license, while a commercial license releases you from the AGPL terms and gives you professional support and maintenance. Visit the iText website to try the entire iText Suite free for 30 days, while keeping your IP safe under iText's commercial license terms.
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    FlipBuilder

    FlipBuilder

    FlipBuilder

    Convert Static PDF Magazines/Brochures/Catalogs into Interactive, Media Rich eBooks That Can Be Viewed, Shared and Distributed on Web, Social and Mobile. Our software makes it easy and simple for publishers to create elegant eBooks and responsive digital magazines from PDF documents. Flipbook software to convert original PDF files into stunning digital booklets with amazing page-flipping animations and sound! Allows you to embed video, audio, Flash and links into Page-flipping eBooks, use command line to automate eBooks creation. Flipbuilder is dedicated to making the best products possible. From design to delivery we focus on simplicity in use and power in function. Our range of applications include tools for converting almost any kind of document to elegant flip books. The flip book software series is ideal if you want to make interactive eBooks, distribute online magazines, newspapers, business brochures, corporate reports, event leaflets/flyers, annual reports, newsletters, etc.
    Starting Price: $49.00
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    SWING PDF Converter for Notes
    SWING PDF Converter for Notes exports IBM Lotus Notes emails, documents and databases to PDF+XML. The tool introduces greatly simplified email and document export and archiving capabilities to IBM Notes/Domino. It adds the PDF icon to the Lotus Notes toolbar, which lets users convert one or more Notes emails or documents. Domino Administrators can archive entire databases or particular views/folders without user intervention. LotusScript API is provided for application developers. Any collection of Lotus Notes emails or documents (e.g. project-related or case-related emails/documents) can be exported into either individual PDF (or PDF/A) files, or merged into a PDF binder with the navigation tree, or saved as compact, searchable PDF Package. Domino Administrators may need to archive entire databases or particular views/folders across multiple databases without user intervention. For instance, a conversion job can be configured to extract emails from specific folders.
    Starting Price: $250.00/one-time/user
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    Mapsoft

    Mapsoft

    Mapsoft Computer Services

    Mapsoft provides a wide variety of plug-ins for the Adobe® Acrobat® platform and server based PDF solutions including our Engage personalization products and web based solutions. Our Acrobat and server based plug-ins allow users to edit, markup and modify pdf documents for distribution and publishing purposes. Tools include Bookmarking, Table of Contents, stamping (including bates), page numbering, masking, changing media sizes and contents, security, optimizing and many more. Free tryout versions of all our products are available, and as all our products come with one year's free technical support as standard you can buy from Mapsoft secure in the knowledge that help is always available should you need it.
    Starting Price: $1449.00/one-time
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    Filestar

    Filestar

    Filestar

    Do anything to any file. Tens of thousands of skills at your fingertips. Quickly convert files in a few clicks. Choose from over 30 000 file conversions. Both common and unusual file formats. Single files or in bulk. Easily merge one or many files at once. Combine files for many different file types. Merge documents, video, audio, Visio or other file formats. Split large files with many pages into several separate ones. For text file formats like .pdf, .doc and .txt. Divide files and documents into parts. Change or alter files. Rotate, add filters, replace file names, add watermarks, add text to images, and much more. One at a time or many at once. Simply compress or reduce the file size of your files. Wide selection of file compression formats and zip options to choose from. Smoothly extract selected pages or elements from a document. Collect images out of a file, or get all images or text from a document.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    Sumnotes

    Sumnotes

    Fifth Force

    An online PDF and Kindle annotation management tool that saves you hours of gruesome work. Have your PDF and Kindle annotations available for you to download in various formats in a matter of seconds. We summarize annotations from your PDFs, Kindle books and Instapaper articles. Save yourself a headache of searching for a tool to annotate and extract annotations from your books or PDF material. Sumnotes is the only simple, yet robust solution to extract annotations from PDF books, lecture notes or research papers, helping you to focus on what matters to you. With one click, import and synchronize annotations made across various platforms. With our batch import capability, importing your entire library is a breeze. We support PDF documents annotated in any official PDF software, including Adobe products and Preview on Macs. We also excited to announce that we support Kindle highlights!
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    PDFill

    PDFill

    PlotSoft

    Please try PDFill if you're looking for an inexpensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat. You can use the Free PDF Writer to create free PDF or Image from any printable application. You can use the Free PDF Tools to merge, split, reorder, delete, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop and reformat PDF pages, add information/header/footer/watermark, convert image to PDF or PDF to image, scan a Paper to PDF, and more. You can use the FREE PDF Editor to fill the form, type text, comment, create form, and more. Besides, with a fraction of the cost of Adobe Acrobat, PDFill PDF Editor can do more than the free Adobe Reader. Group texts, shapes or pictures into a complicated object. Lock the object from editing. Save the PDFill Object and use it later easily. Scan your paper form or photo directly into a new or existing PDF document, then you can fill it in using a computer!
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    SCHEMA ST4

    SCHEMA ST4

    SCHEMA Group

    The SCHEMA Group was established in Nuremberg in 1995 and is a medium-sized software manufacturer with more than 130 employees. The SCHEMA Group produces component content management and content delivery solutions for authoring departments creating product-related content. The SCHEMA ST4 component content management system is one of the most frequently used systems for the modularised creation of documentation, package inserts and marketing documentation. The system covers all areas of creation, versioning, variant control, translation, management and publication of product-related content – from authoring assistance during input to the finished layout for the printed catalog. A documentation portal based on Quanos InfoCube provides a central point of contact on the Internet where all technical documentation is available. Users can quickly and precisely find the right content in the entire information inventory with an easy-to-use search system.