Tracker PDF-XChange Editor Plus

Purchase of a product license is a one-time fee.

The license is perpetual and is inclusive of one year of free maintenance, entitling you to all major/minor updates during the maintenance period. Should you decide not to renew your maintenance when it expires, your license remains valid and grants you the right to use any version that was released during your valid maintenance period - indefinitely.

PDF-XChange Co/Tracker Software Products - 2022 Marks Our 25th Year 

We at Tracker Software Products/PDF-XChange Co. are excited to announce the release of Version 9 of the PDF-XChange product line on January 14th, 2021. A range of new features, improvements and bug fixes have been added in this major release of our products. Whether you are a home user or small business looking for an easy-to-use, affordable PDF editor, or a mid-sized to global business looking for an intelligent, robust PDF solution to streamline productivity and automate workflow - there has never been a better time to harness the power of the PDF-XChange family of products:

The smallest, fastest and most feature-rich free PDF viewer/editor on the market.

Create, view, edit, annotate, OCR and digitally sign PDF files - and that's just the beginning. Please see below for a breakdown of the main features of PDF-XChange Editor.

The PDF-XChange Lite virtual printer is also included with this product at no additional cost.

More than 60% of the features in PDF-XChange Editor do not require a license to use. The remaining features, which are clearly identified, will place a 'trial' watermark on output if they are used without a license.

PDF-XChange Editor Plus includes additional functionality for the creation and editing of fillable forms and the creation of customizable dynamic stamps

New and Updated Enhanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Plugin – in version 8.0.333.0 (released April 4th, 2019) we added the optional 'Enhanced OCR' plugin for users who needed to convert image-based content into editable text - and wanted to avail of better quality and more dynamic OCR functionality in comparison to that offered by the free, default OCR functionality included in our FREE software. We initially selected the Leadtools OCR SDK and language sets in order to create the Enhanced OCR plugin, and for many users it performed very well. However, with a limitation of approximately 50 different language packs and restrictions and limitations with some non-English languages, it was found to be of limited value to a significant proportion of our client base.

Therefore, in Version 9 we decided to replace the LeadTools OCR SDK with the industry-leading OCR library from ABBYY Software. The new OCR recognition is greatly improved and displays a significantly higher level of accuracy for many document types and language sets. Users from eastern Europe and elsewhere who had experienced issues with OCR on Cyrillic text will see significant improvements. Additionally, ABBYY’s OCR SDK extends the number of languages supported from less than 50 to over 150, including ‘RTL’ (right-to-left reading) languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Please note that the existing model of purchasing the Enhanced OCR functionality as an optional plugin will cease on release of version 9, and this plugin will no longer be available as a separate item in PDF-XChange Editor or PDF-Tools. The new Enhanced OCR feature set will instead be included in PDF-XChange Editor Plus and the PDF-XChange Pro bundle. Customers with active product maintenance who purchased the V8 Enhanced OCR plugin will receive a free upgrade to the either the V9 Editor Plus or V9 PRO bundle, in order to ensure they have continued access to the features that were available to them before the V9 release.

1. Create and Edit Fillable Forms