Students organizing course PDFs and office staff preparing reports can use PDF Shaper to combine files, rearrange pages, or pull content from documents. The Windows utility also handles PDF conversions and works offline.
How can PDF Shaper reorganize a document?
The page tools cover common structural edits: rotate or crop pages, insert new ones, move them into a different order, delete unwanted pages, or extract selected pages. For larger documents, splitting separates a PDF into parts, while merging combines multiple PDFs into one file.
Watermarks can be added as text or images.
What can it convert or extract?
PDF Shaper converts PDFs to and from Word documents, plain text and images. It can also extract text, images, or whole pages from a PDF. Text extraction offers plain-text, OCR, and CSV modes, giving users different ways to capture document content.
- Use merging and splitting to assemble or divide document sets.
- Extract images or page content for reuse outside the PDF.
- Rename PDF files and edit document metadata.
Can it secure or clean up PDFs?
Paid editions add AES password encryption, document-permission settings, and digital signatures. PDF Shaper can also remove items such as metadata, bookmarks, annotations, form fields, and embedded images to clean up a document. The application processes files offline.
What does the interface offer?
The interface groups PDF tasks in a multilingual layout with theme support. Batch processing is available for handling groups of documents, while command-line automation is offered in paid editions.
Pros
- Merges and splits PDFs, with text or image watermarks
- Can rotate, crop, insert, move, delete, and extract pages
- Extracts text, images, and complete pages
- Converts between PDF, Word DOC, text, and image files
System requirements: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 · 32-bit and 64-bit
Can PDF Shaper combine several PDFs into one file?
Yes. Its merge tool combines PDF documents, and its split tool separates a document into parts.
Which file types can PDF Shaper convert?
PDF to and from Word, text and image formats. PDF-to-text extraction also offers plain-text, OCR, and CSV modes.
Can PDF Shaper add a password to a PDF?
AES password encryption is available in paid editions, not the Free edition.
