Forget the password to your source document? Don't fret. ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., has recently released Advanced PDF Password Recovery 2.0, a software package that removes both password encryption and usage restrictions from Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Designed for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, this software tool comes in a standard and professional edition and takes up approximately 600K of hard disk...

Foxit Reader was created to provide an alternative to Adobe Reader, and it seems to succeed quite nicely on all fronts. Foxit Reader allows users to draw graphics, highlight text, type text, and make notes on PDF documents, and then save the entire thing (or print it out). This version is compatible with computers running Windows Me and newer.

Designed as a free alternative to other proprietary software programs, Foxit Reader allows users to view, modify, and print pdf documents. Visitors will find helpful support documents, along with the ability to mark-up text, replace text, and also insert images and drawings. This version is compatible with computers running Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

PDF Viewer is a free application, available for iOS and Android mobile devices, that allows users to view and annotate PDFs with ease. PDF viewer is unique in that it allows users to edit documents, e.g. delete pages, rotate pages, and add images and notes, and even add signatures, on any mobile device. Users can also easily check out a list of all recent annotations and edits, facilitating easy...

The slow return of in-person conferences brings with it the need to print conference posters, but not everyone will have ready access to a poster printer. Plakativ is software intended to generate a multi-page PDF that can be printed on standard sized paper and pasted together to make a poster. Users can create their poster in three ways: 1) a specified final size, 2) a given magnification of an...

Tabula is a tool to extract data from PDFs. It is often used to extract data from government reports for aggregation and analysis. It has been used in this way by journalists at ProPublica, The Times of London, Foreign Policy, and others. To use Tabula, users draw a box around the region in a text-based PDF (not a scanned document) that they wish to extract data from. Tabula then produces a...