There is an export bar that lets you export to a number of formats including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF, and you can extract the text out of a PDF and save it as a plain text document. Just because you are working with a PDF doesn’t mean that you want the end result to be in PDF format. If you are someone who needs to compare different documents, this tool could be worth the price all on its own. I marked up a document and changed some of the text (more on that later), and the compare tool found all my changes and gave a summary.

It will then show you where the differences are. If you have two PDFs, you can quickly compare either the text of the document or the general look. Nitro Pro 9 has many features, but I am just going to pick out a few of them that I think would be handy for going paperless. However, if you are a Windows user that manipulates PDFs, converts them, and generally needs to make them work for you, Nitro is definitely worth a look. If you are a home user and all you ever do with PDFs is view them and print them out, then Nitro is probably not something you need to go paperless. You can create & combine PDFs, edit them, make them searchable with OCR, sign them, mark them up, and upload them to the cloud. I’m not sure who hands out that designation, but it is definitely an application that lets you do almost anything with PDF documents. They call it “the official PDF solution for productivity”. Nitro Pro is an application for working with PDFs.

It looked great, so I decided to annoy the Nitro folks on Twitter until they agreed to hook me up with a review copy of Nitro Pro 9 to check out.

You can view documents easily enough, but you need to look elsewhere if you want to actually do something useful with them.Ī while ago, awesome DocumentSnap reader Sherri-Lee Mathers from Balsam Way Bookkeeping turned me on to a program that she relies on for her paperless practice: Nitro Pro. There are many good things about Microsoft Windows, but the ability to work with PDF documents is not one of them.

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