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Free PDF utilities

PDF, or Portable Document Format is used to convert paper documents into searchable, easily transportable digital media. This format was first introduced by Adobe Corporation in the early 90's, and become very popular due to its innovative features and ease of use.

PDF utilities will let you do a host of different tasks. Whether it is using your scanner to scan a document and export it as a PDF file, or adding notes to your PDF document, or turning your PDF document into a form, the range of PDF utilities is quite vast. All of these utilities will aid in your efforts to make PDF documents, or read already made PDF documents.

Risks:

PDF utilities are risk free, and can be used openly, even for the first time user. These applications can cause no system harm, and as long as proper backup procedures are taken, can cause no unrecoverable damage to any media. The only risk with a Free PDF utility is that you may not be able find all the features you'd like in one, and may have to use multiple free utilities to obtain all of your desired features.

You can get any or all of the free PDF utilities here:

Readers:  
1. Adobe Reader http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
2. Skim (Mac) http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
3. Xpdf (Linux) http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
   
Creators/Converters:  
1.PDFCreator (Windows) http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
2.GhostScript http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
3.doPDF Free PDF Converter http://www.dopdf.com/

NOTE 1: Most Free PDF utilities will not support scanning-to-PDF features. For an advanced feature set, you may need to purchase a full featured, commercial product.