PDF tools compared, with every fact sourced and dated
These pages set CECO PDF beside the PDF tools people weigh it with, and the apps they already have: editors, mergers and compressors, Word, Google Docs, Canva and Preview. Each says what the other tools do better, takes every fact about them from their makers' own pages, cites the page, and gives the date it was read.
The comparisons
PDF editors compared: which one fits the job
Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF-XChange, Nitro, Smallpdf, iLovePDF, Sejda and PDF24: which one changes existing text, which one handles scans, where each runs and what each costs.
Five ways to change text in a scan, compared
Retyping, OCR and an editor, a conversion to Word, covering with white, or a correction in place: what each way does to the rest of a scanned page.
Merge PDF tools compared: free limits, privacy and what is kept
iLovePDF, Smallpdf, Adobe Acrobat online, PDF24 and Sejda: free limits, how long each keeps your files, what happens to bookmarks, and working offline.
Compress PDF tools compared: what you choose, and what you get
iLovePDF, Smallpdf, Adobe Acrobat online, PDF24 and Sejda: the choices each gives you, its free use, and how long it keeps your files.
The guides
One situation each, and the ways to handle it, CECO PDF's among them.
Can you edit a PDF in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
What Word, Google Docs and Canva each make of a PDF you open to edit, what may change on the page, and when to correct it in place instead.
How to edit a PDF without Adobe Acrobat
Preview on a Mac, Adobe's free online editor, Smallpdf, Sejda, iLovePDF and PDF24: what each does with the text already in a PDF, and what it costs.
How to edit your resume or CV when you only have the PDF
Updating your own CV when you only have the PDF: the original file first, then Word, typing it again, or a correction in place.
Who writes them
CECO PDF writes these pages, and CECO PDF is in every one of them, which is a reason to read them with care. So each one shows its working: what was compared, the page every fact came from, and the day that page was read. Nothing here is a rating or a review. No tool paid to be included or left out, and no link here earns anything.
How each page is made
- Facts about another tool come only from its maker's own website, read on the date shown: prices, limits, features, and what happens to the files you upload.
- Where a maker's pages do not say something, the page says so rather than guess.
- No file was uploaded to another tool. Each page sets out what each maker says its tool does.
- Prices are given in the currency the maker's page showed, and differ by country, tax and offer.
- Facts about CECO PDF come from the service itself: its prices, limits and how long it keeps files are read from its own settings whenever a page is served.
If something here is wrong
Write to admin@cecopdf.com with the page and the fact. A fact that has changed is corrected, and the page is dated again.
Where to start
How a correction is made and checked, every tool, the measured results and the prices.
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