Soda PDF

editing PDF content with Soda PDF, where the desktop help article documents Edit mode with text font, bold and italic, font size, font colour and further adjustments including superscript and subscript, and the online PDF editor page describes editing a PDF in the browser and notes that text in a scanned PDF needs the separate OCR capability; the scope records direct text editing and formatting, leaves scanned-page text recognition to the OCR job, and makes no layout-stability guarantee

converting PDFs with Soda PDF, where the PDF converter page documents converting a PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image or HTML and converting the other way, with automatic format detection and the claim that the content layout is preserved, and the desktop 15 overview lists a Create Convert ribbon tab; the desktop system requirements state that Microsoft Office 2007 or later is required for plug-in conversion to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and the scope records the documented conversion directions with no fidelity guarantee

merging PDFs with Soda PDF, where the PDF Merge page documents combining multiple PDF files, arranging the file order, optionally editing the merged document and downloading, emailing or saving the result to Soda PDF online storage, OneDrive or Dropbox, and the desktop 15 overview lists a Page tab; the scope records the documented combine, order and output operations with no claim about preserving signatures, forms or annotations across a merge

protecting PDFs with Soda PDF, where the password protection page documents requiring a password to open a document, restricting permissions including editing, printing and copying while still allowing the file to be opened, and a separate unlock tool; the page describes 256-bit AES as the strongest PDF encryption and says 128-bit AES is no longer supported by PDF 2.0; the help centre documents a separate Redaction tool in the Secure module that permanently deletes information after the marked areas are applied, and a separate whiteout tool; the scope records the password and permission workflow with the vendor's encryption statement, keeps permanent deletion as the vendor's redaction claim, and does not merge whiteout into redaction

compressing PDFs with Soda PDF, where the Compress PDF page documents Regular compression as an estimated 40 percent reduction that preserves good quality and High compression as up to 85 percent for maximum space or email, with the compressed result downloaded as a zipped file, and the desktop 15 overview lists a Compress tool; the scope records the two vendor-described levels and estimated reductions, and makes no lossless or guaranteed size-reduction claim

signing PDFs with Soda PDF, where the desktop help centre documents two separate routes: the E-Sign module, with Sign your Document for dragging signature and initials fields and adding date, name and email, and Request Signature for sending a document package to one or more signers by email with tracking in the inbox, and a local Digital Signature that uses a certificate stored in the Windows environment and an appearance image; the E-Sign versus digital signature article says each is legally binding and explains that the local certificate can only be verified on the system it came from while E-Sign authentication is managed outside the local system, and the digital signature article says that feature is desktop only; the page also advertises signing and requesting signatures online; the scope separates E-Sign from the certificate-based digital signature and makes no independent legal-validity, certificate-authority or timestamping guarantee

running OCR with Soda PDF, where the help centre documents an OCR module with Recognize Document for scanned pages and OCR settings, with Auto and Manual recognition of individual images, and an OCR language article listing 25 detected languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian, with the engine set to detect all languages by default; the article documents the language setting in both the desktop app and Soda PDF Online, and the support material also covers OCR Search and OCR Edit; the scope records the documented OCR workflow and the 25-language help list, makes no accuracy guarantee and does not claim a different language count