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Your Smart PDF Reader Editor!

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KDAN PDF - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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KDAN PDF overview

What is KDAN PDF?

KDAN PDF (formerly PDF Reader) is your smart alternative to Acrobat Adobe PDF. Incorporated with AI technology, KDAN PDF is a powerful PDF solution for your Windows PC, iOS, Android, and Mac devices. Become a PDF expert - use KDAN PDF to annotate, edit, combine, convert, encrypt, and sign PDF documents. Whether you are at school, at work, at home, or on the go.

With KDAN PDF, you can always handle complicated PDF documents. Enjoy consistent PDF editing capabilities on all your devices.

**New AI Features**

• Auto Redact Text (Beta): Safeguard your data effortlessly. Use AI technology to detect and redact sensitive information in documents. Ideal for industries that constantly handle sensitive information, such as education, law, finance, government, healthcare, and more.

The Beta feature is exclusively available for “Document 365 subscribers” in PDF Reader Windows. Haven’t subscribed yet? Begin your 7-day Free Trial and explore the new features. The Beta trial campaign ends in mid-April.

• Instant Translation: Easily read and understand PDF content. Quickly translate your text to more than 100 languages. You can easily edit and save the translation.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- Best Office Software Products for 2024 by G2

- 'Fastest Implementation' and 'Easiest To Do Business' for Small Business by G2 in Winter 2024

- Best PDF reader apps for 2020 by Tom's Guide

- Recommended by Techradar, Techworm, Softonic, and Waerfa

- Featured on G2, Capterra, and SourceForge

KEY FEATURES

EDIT PDF

• Replace, edit, add, or delete text directly in PDFs

• Edit, crop, and adjust images in PDFs

• Insert images to PDFs

• Fill out & edit PDF forms

• Change the font size and color

OCR PDF

• Recognize and extract text from PDFs

• Export OCR results as text or searchable PDFs

• 50+ languages supported

SECURE PDF

• Redact Text (Search or AI-powered)

• Add passwords to lock PDFs

• Remove passwords from PDFs

CONVERT PDF

• Support built-in and cloud converter

• Support PDF to Word, Excel, PPT, text, image & eBook conversions (docx, xlsx, pptx, png, txt, rtf, ePub, AZW3 & MOBI)

VIEW FILES

• Change PDF background color

• Present a PDF as a slideshow

• View and validate certificates and signatures in PDF documents

• View multiple PDFs as tabs

• View PDF in single-page or double-page view

• View PDF files as plain text (text reflow)

• Horizontal or Vertical scroll, Single Page or Continuous scroll modes.

• Search text in PDFs

• View a PDF in full-screen mode

PAGE EDITOR

• Rotate, delete, add, and rearrange pages

• Extract pages from PDFs

SIGN & WRITE ON PDF

• Sign contracts and agreements with signatures

• Create and manage signatures from within the library

• Add handwritten notes to PDFs (Integrated with Windows Ink)

ANNOTATE & REVIEW PDF

• Annotate PDFs with highlights, underlines, strikeout text, shapes, sticky notes & text boxes

• Add pre-designed stamps, including Approved, Sign Here, Confidential, and more

• Add custom stamps with time and date information

• Insert hyperlinks to external websites, target pages, and email address

• Insert images to PDFs

• Flatten all annotations before sharing

MANAGE FILES

• Zip and unzip files

• Merge multiple files into one PDF

• Split a large PDF into several small PDFs

• Send faxes directly from within the app

• Share documents as flattened PDFs or annotated PDFs with others

Starting price

59.99per user /
per year

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KDAN PDF reviews

Overall rating

4.5

/5

2

Positive reviews

100

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10
Rating distribution

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KDAN PDF's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from KDAN PDF users:

Electronic signature
Rotate pages
Convert to pdf
Merge/Append files
Full text search
Delete pages

All KDAN PDF features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Annotations
Commenting/Notes
Customizable branding
Forms management
Image editing
Optical character recognition
Rearrange pages
Text editing
Watermarking

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KDAN PDF pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Document 365 AI+

99.99

/user

Per year

Features included:

  • An all-access pass to premium features in PDF Reader mobile and desktop applications across all smart devices, PC and Mac.
  • 1TB Kdan Cloud Storage
  • Convert PDFs to Office files
  • Edit text and images in PDFs
  • Copy text from scanned PDFs (OCR)
  • Compress PDFs
  • Protect PDFs with passwords
  • Add and delete PDF pages
  • Rearrange PDF pages
  • Merge and split PDFs
  • Insert images
  • Insert hyperlinks
  • Slideshow mode

Licensing Plan - PDF Reader Pro

119.99

/user

One-time payment

Features included:

  • Basic features - markup & write on PDFs, sign PDFs directly, fill fillable forms
  • Create PDFs - Create Blank PDFs, Images to PDFs, Clipboard content to PDFs, Web page to PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to Office formats
  • Copy text from scanned PDFs (OCR)
  • Edit PDFs - Insert images, Insert hyperlinks, Fill & create fillable forms, Add headers, footers & bates number
  • Edit PDF pages - Edit, Insert, Delete, Extract & Reorder Pages
  • Advanced PDF tools - Merge & Split PDFs, Compress PDFs, Speak PDF texts
  • Secure PDFs - Decrypt PDFs through passwords, Add & remove watermarks, Flatten PDFs Prevent annotations and forms from editing

2025 Spring Sale - Document 365 AI+

59.99

/user

Per year

Features included:

  • Review PDFs Fast with AI's Help
  • Auto-Redact Sensitive Info
  • Get PDF Tasks Done in Minutes

User opinions about KDAN PDF price and value

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KDAN PDF integrations (4)

KDAN PDF support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum

Training options

Documentation
Videos

KDAN PDF FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does KDAN PDF offer?

KDAN PDF has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $99.99/year
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of KDAN PDF?

KDAN PDF has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Small Business


Q. What languages does KDAN PDF support?

KDAN PDF supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, English


Q. Does KDAN PDF support mobile devices?

KDAN PDF supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does KDAN PDF offer an API?

No, KDAN PDF does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does KDAN PDF offer?

KDAN PDF offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum

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