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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 8 - Reviews of Tungsten Power PDF

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Oriana Veruska G.  
Manager  
Accounting  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Not the best one I have ever used"

August 27, 2018

3.0

Since my experience with nuance power was not the best I can't recommend it, it made my computer as slow as adobe did, but something that it's on its favor is the fact that it is way cheaper.

Pros

My experience with nuance power was not the best one, I switched from adobe because it made my computer run at turtle speed but nuance didn't help much in this regard, it is significantly cheaper though which is something great it has on it's favor.

Cons

A big issue I have with nuance power pdf is how slow it makes my pc, it is significantly smaller than adobe but still it has the same effect that made me look for other options to it, I don't know how much power this software needs since my pc is of hight quality and still lags a lot.

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Response from Tungsten Automation

October 24, 2018

Hello Oriana Veruska, Thank you for your feedback on your experience with Nuance Power PDF Advanced. We would be happy to connect you directly to our product manager in order to overcome the performance issues you are experiencing. Thank you, -Nuance Document Imaging.

JW

Jason W.  
mgr  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy to use"

April 18, 2023

5.0

The product is stable, reliable, and easy to use.

Pros

The product is easy to use. Our users rarely ask how to do something.

Cons

I think the product is very easy to use. I cant think of anything off hand.

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DE

Dawn E.  
HR  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The Nuance product has met my expectations for everyday use. "

July 24, 2018

5.0

Pros

I appreciate the ability to edit pdf files as well as the export capabilities. I use this product almost on a daily basis.

Cons

What I like least about this software is that it takes a bit of time to learn, however there is great help sections.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Energy Contracts Analyst  
Oil & Energy  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Power PDF Advance"

October 4, 2019

5.0

I use this program very often to convert PDFs into Word, PPT, Excel or other type of documents, and for dividing or joining two documents or extract specific pages. Something very useful of this software is that you can also edit PDFs. I recommend it definetely.

Pros

Besides converting PDFs into different type of files, dividing or joining documents you can also edit PDFs, which makes this software more worthy.

Cons

I have no real complaints about this software, the only comment would be that ILovePDF looks more friendly, but this software is easy to use also.

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Christina P.  
Employment counsel  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Nuance, for the most part, does what Adobe does"

October 15, 2019

4.0

We used Adobe PDF at a company I used to work for because it was more cost effective than using Adobe. I found nothing lost from this choice and Nuance is easy to use.

Pros

Nuance does what you’d expect it from it. I like that it’s mostly intuitive and easy to figure out if you’ve ever used Adobe PDF Viewer or something similar. I also love how effortless it is to convert documents from Word to PDF or PDF to Word.

Cons

Nuance is not as widely available as Adobe PDF, so you can’t access it on a mobile device. I also find that it doesn’t do a great job making PDFs searchable.

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RP

Robin P.  
Travel Agent  
Leisure, Travel & Tourism  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good product!"

August 21, 2018

5.0

Over all a good product. I have used for many years and the price point is great!

Pros

I like being able to change a word document to a pdf file so I can email to my customers with ease. I can even put security on them so they cannot alter my documents without a password.

Cons

Everytime I have to erase my computer you have to remove the software or you can't use. You have to call customer service to unlock to reload to computer.

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BA

Breno A.  
Coordenador  
Pharmaceuticals  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Avaliação Kofax Power Pdf"

September 26, 2023

5.0

Tem sido uma excelente experiência.

Pros

Gosto muito da qualidade do produto e da facilidade de usar, é um programa muito completo que facilita o trabalho com pdf.

Cons

Gostaria de ter um design mais moderno a minha disposição.

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Response from Tungsten Automation

December 28, 2023

Hi there, Thank you so much for your review of Power PDF! - Gordon, Product Marketing

JK

Joanne K.  
Service Administrator  
Facilities Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Nuance Review"

March 15, 2019

5.0

Very easy to use to convert forms into fillable forms.

Pros

It is very easy to convert a editable form to a non-editable form, which I use daily.

Cons

There is nothing at the moment I can think of that I don't like.

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BS

Betsy S.  
IT Support Coordinator  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Deployed 1.0 to select users in my company, fills the bill and good value"

May 16, 2017

4.0

Bringing more people the ability to edit pdf's at a reasonable price. I decided to have a team use this software for editing so they all could share techniques and tips.

Pros

The price and features for this software is what attracted me to it in the first place, and yet my users have told me they really like having it available for pdf editing.

Cons

A bit of a learning curve. I have found it helpful to have a power user in the office that helps people get started with the software. Another con; they don't give free version upgrades, guess that was why it costs less!

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lP

laura P.  
PACS support assitant  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great PDF program"

December 4, 2019

5.0

Overall great tool for viewing and editing PDF documents.

Pros

Superior to Adobe Acrobat for converting PDF files to word, excel, edit, etc. Nuance Power PDF is extremely easy to use and easy to learn and get everyone trained on.

Cons

The only thing that I have come across is at times it can run a bit slow but not sure that isn't on our end.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior Associate  
Accounting  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Nuance Power PDF"

May 23, 2019

4.0

Pros

The software contained enough functionality to allow me to complete the day-to-day tasks that I need to complete, such as combining multiple PDF files, password protecting files, and printing files in multiple formats.

Cons

The options to edit the PDF document directly are more limited then competing software. Sometimes you may need to make changes to the original document and re-print those documents to PDF, rather then making the change in PDF directly.

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KW

Ken W.  
Manager  
Environmental Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Good PDF editor"

April 17, 2023

5.0

Pros

Easy to use and good user interface feature

Cons

conversion of pdf document to Microsoft office alignment might not be accurate

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L.P. H.  
owner  
Graphic Design  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "A powerful PDF software "

December 22, 2021

4.0

My overall experience with Kofax Power PDF was great and the benefit I have realized with this software is that it is easy to save large files into PDF.

Pros

The product is easy to use and I found a few features that were impactful including the feature to easily convert files into PDF.

Cons

I did not see any aspects of the product that were hard to use and integration of this software into our business process was not difficult.

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TH

Taleesha H.  
Director Revenue Cycle, Coding  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great product"

April 14, 2023

5.0

Pros

Lots of useful capabilities, combining multiple documents, page assembly

Cons

I'm not very savvy when it comes to these things but, so far I have no issues with Kofax!

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Payroll Manager  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "We love this product! Much less expensive than Adobe with most of the same options. "

April 4, 2018

5.0

It is a great time-saver when needing to update company forms.

Pros

The ability to create fillable PDFs from Word and Excel documents, typing onto PDF forms, and the ability to export a PDF back into an editable format such as Word.

Cons

Creating fillable forms is time-consuming, as you have to go field by field to set it up. Otherwise, we have not yet run into anything we didn't like or didn't work as expected.

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BS

Baiano S.  
Computerised Systems Validation SME  
Pharmaceuticals  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great PDF Editor Software of All Times"

April 12, 2023

4.0

Pros

The Watch folder for automatic conversion/processing is a unique powerful feature of this software.The other great and seamless feature is pages re-arrangement, and deletion feature, but most of all, the best and most accurate OCR feature more than any other PDF Editor I have ever used.

Cons

It is a bit resource intensive compared to PDF Xchange Pro v9. I had frequent cases where it crashes or freezes at document/file opening or file text editing/text annotation.

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AC

Aaron C.  
Senior Reservation Agent  
Hospitality  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Nuance Power PDF - A Great Choice for PDF Solutions"

February 20, 2020

4.0

As a lower-priced competitor to Adobe's Acrobat software, Nuance Power PDF does offer a lot of value for a user's dollar. While it may not completely match Acrobat, feature for feature, the level of convenience is equal for everyday use. I strongly recommend any companies seeking an alternative to the Adobe suite to give Nuance a change, you may find yourselves impressed with the features included for the asking price!

Pros

I appreciated the amount of options that Nuance offered compared to a variety of freeware or online PDF tools. We had lots of flexibility in editing PDF files down to the smallest details; like advanced cropping and scaling on construction blueprints, or rotating specific pages of a scanned document. Automatic conversion of PDF files to Word Docs is an awesome feature too, and it generally works very well for most user's needs.

Cons

Text editing and overlay within existing documents was a little difficult at times to match with documents made in Adobe or Microsoft Word. I ran into a series of bugs related to large documents that would not collate when printed from Nuance; I had to instead use Chrome or a competing PDF software to fix the issue.

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Luis Enrique G.  
Analista de Telecomunicaciones  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great PDF editor and conversor"

May 16, 2018

5.0

It is an excellent software for transforming PDF documents and it makes my work easier.

Pros

Being able to transform documents to and from PDF makes my work easier since lots of the documents our clients send us need to be edited and we can't do it in the pdfs, just going to the doc version is wonderful.

Cons

The only complaint I have about this software is that it can be slow at times and it can feel a bit clunky.

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RH

Rhys H.  
Trainee Technical Coordinator  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Useful PDF viewer and Editor"

February 7, 2018

5.0

Create and Edit PDFs in many different ways

Pros

The best thing about Nuance Power PDF is that is has a very vast selection of features for creating and editing PDFs

Cons

The worst thing about Nuance Power PDF is it can be quite slow at times and some features can be hard to find

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CD

Christian D.  
Scheduling & Materials Manager  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Nuance Power PDF Standard"

January 23, 2019

5.0

A real ease of use.

Pros

I love the Edit , View and Comment tabs. The Text box, highlight, typewriter, draw tools and many other features make it so easy to create "as built" drawings on our PDF floor plans.

Cons

I haven't really found any cons to this software yet!

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KELLEN D.  
LITIGATION PARALEGAL  
Law Practice  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Nuance Power PDF "

August 29, 2019

4.0

Pros

User-friendly, Windows appearance and ribbons, comparable to Adobe Acrobat Pro XI

Cons

Functions names are not similar to Adobe and therefore the learning curve is taking longer; also, no formal training materials available other than YouTube and the instructional videos available for the most part are old and/or outdated

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YT

Yesi T.  
yesenia  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "excelente"

January 20, 2023

5.0

desde que empece a usar este software deje de usar otros que no me servían para lo que necesitaba, y ha sido una experiencia muy gratificante y rápida para lo que necesito.

Pros

lo que mas me gusta de kofax es el hecho de que puedo convertir archivos en pdf y es el que mas uso. y también por la captura automática de documentos.

Cons

lo único lo único es que aveces es un poco lento y se queda pegado pero solo eso.

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TT

Traci T.  
Corporate Paralegal  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Love this program!"

May 25, 2017

5.0

Pros

Nuance Power PDF is much easier to use than any other pdf program that I have used. The fact that you can make a pdf editable, as well as track changes, with such ease has sold me on this program. It is my "go-to" for all pdf's.

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SS

Sarah S.  
Biological Resources Coordinator  
Environmental Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Love the setup, hate the lack of processing power"

May 11, 2021

3.0

Overall I have no complaints except the lack of processing power, which is sad because I love how this is set up over Adobe (much less wasted space and more intuitive tabs) but it just can't handle what I need it to.

Pros

Love the page tab feature where you can preview the page thumbnails in a column off to the side of the viewing pane. I use it all the time to quickly navigate. Compared to other softwares, this is actually the best I've seen; the thumbnails aren't too big where they take up most of the viewing pane or too small where I can't see what's on the page. The thumbnails are also spaced closely together so we aren't wasting valuable reading pane space. Overall incredibly well designed thumbnails.

Cons

I think this was supposed to be the new and improved Nuance, but it just changed the color scheme but didn't increase any functionality of the product. All of the controls are the same (which is nice), but it doesn't have enough computing power to handle large documents well (50+ pages) which is primarily what I deal with. It takes a long time to load and often freezes.

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MR

Michael R.  
Manager  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very hard to navigate"

June 30, 2021

2.0

Ultimately I am able to get the things done that I need to but the software has definitely given me headaches along the way.

Pros

I like that I am able to combine PDFs easily and edit them in a very specific way. It has helped in preparation of several final documents.

Cons

It is very hard to find what you are looking for. Additionally, it was frustrating at first since the software did not seem compatible.

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