What is Tungsten Power PDF?
Tungsten Power PDF (formerly Kofax) is a solution to manage PDFs for businesses and individuals available with a one-time purchase with no subscription fees. It has a built-in eSignature integration with SignDoc and DocuSign for a complete end-to-end document lifecycle workflow.
Benefits to Power PDF users:
- Ease of Use: Works like Office desktop products, so it's easier to learn
- Compatibility: Works across devices and platforms, share documents in a storage cloud
- Security: Built-in features to protect information & compare documents to monitor tampering
- Search: "Fuzzy Search" provides a Google-like search
- 3D Support: Rotate, zoom, annotate and more on a 3D object
- Speed & Accuracy: Accurate & speedy when converting PDFs to/from Word, Excel, and other popular formats
- eSignature Integration: Sign & send PDF documents for signature via SignDoc or other 3rd party platforms
- Dynamic Stamps: Customizable stamping with font, color, background
- Redact Sensitive Information: Automatically detect & redact words and expressions for safe, secure document sharing
- Create Interactive PDF Forms with a Single Click: Convert a flat, image-based PDF form into one that users can complete electronically
- Formatting: PDF/A-4 Format to ensure retention all of the newest PDF features
- Collaboration: Review, markup and revise PDFs with annotations, mark-up and stamps
Power PDF Advanced, Standard and Mac are individual, buy-once-own-forever licenses for desktop or laptop. Power PDF Business volume licensing is available for more than 5 users, with a single admin, server installation, and other collaborative features for teams, along with Generative AI features.
Free trials for all Power PDF editions available here.
Categories & Use Cases
Screenshots

the PDF Create Assistant, which can be used to create multiple PDFs at the same time from a variety of source formats. Create individual PDFs, or combine into one PDF package.
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac, Citrix, Microsoft App-V and Windows Server network deployment (for Power PDF Volume License only) |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Languages | English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean (Mac supports English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese) |
























