PDF Tool Box is genuinely a toolbox as it offers multiple tools in single software. These are PDF file processing tools and can be considered as a boon for those who need data from PDF files. Software allows you to perform some arbitrary actions on the PDF files and has some very advantageous factors which can benefit you at personal and professional front. The wide usage of portable document format files makes the software more desirable as this file format is used for many purposes. Software will help you to take out information from these files in a secured manner.

It allows you to perform many tasks on the PDF file like; reducing its size, extracting text and images, and conversion of PDF to PDF/A. Every step included to attain these requirements is simple and can be handled by a novice user as well.

Setup And Interface:

PDF Tool Box comes in full and demo version. It is recommended to download the demo version first because it completely depends upon you how you will utilize software and hence it is better to judge it yourself. Download is available on the main page of software although it is difficult to search amongst all the range of software but they have made a search box available. You can search for PDF toolbox here. Once the main page of software is opened you can hit the “Download” button directly and download demo trial version which is absolutely free. For purchase you will have to go to “Purchase” option and contact tech-support.

Talking about the interface it is very simple to be used and no confusion occurs even if you are using the software for the first time. Necessary tabs are provided and it easy to use them all.

Execution of Software:

  • Launch the PDF Tool Box software and a window will open. It will display all the options which can be performed by the tool.
  • These are the four operations which can be applied on the PDF are;
    • Compress
    • Convert PDF to PDF/A
    • Extract Images
    • Extract Text
  • Choose the operation you want to perform and then load the PDF file.
  • Provide the destination for saving the output.
  • Give the necessary options to modify the task.
  • And hit start. The processing will be done and the output will be saved to the destined location.
  • Demo version will apply some watermarks on the PDFs, images or text files.

Features and Application Threads

  • Compress: This option lets you compress PDF file, you can load PDF file with large file size and software will reduce its file size. Modified options for this compression can also be applied like compressing images however this will badly affect the quality of images in PDF.
  • Convert PDF/A: You can convert the mode of PDF file to PDF/A using this option. Choose this option and then load your PDF file.
  • Extract Images: This option lets you extract the images from the PDF file and saves them in various image file formats like; JPEG, TIFF, etc. Advance settings also let you manage the size of the images to be extracted.
  • Extract Text: This option can be very useful if you want to process some important text information from the PDF file. The output comes out to be a text file with the extracted information.
  • You can perform the task on some pages of the PDF file as per your selection.
  • Software hardly takes time to process the files but it can take time if you load many files at once.
  • Program will not affect other programs running on the same machine and happens to be secured enough to try out.

The Offerings and Downfalls:

The most amazing thing about this PDF Tool Box is it works well with user/owner password protected files. You just need to put the user password while processing of the tool and the software will do its work. So this tool makes it possible to extract data from an owner protected PDF as well which is otherwise not possible to copy or extract details.

You get best out of very little cost and performance of software is commendable. The utility of this tool is widespread because many users are associated with PDF file format.

The only thing which is missing is; you cannot process two options at same time. If you want to extract images and text both you will have to go through whole process twice. This is not a drawback of software but still there is room for improvement. I would rate this software 8.5 out of 10 with some improvement it can be 10 out of 10 for sure.