The smallest, fastest and most feature-rich free PDF viewer/editor on the market.
Create, view, edit, annotate, OCR and digitally sign PDF files – and that’s just the beginning. Please see below for a breakdown of the main features of PDF-XChange Editor.
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Simply put: the smallest, fastest, most feature-rich PDF software available. Create, view, edit, annotate, OCR* and sign PDF files – and that’s just the beginning. If you work with PDF then this fully-customizable product will optimize your work process to levels that no other product can achieve.
PDF-XChange Editor can be used to create PDF files from scanned documents, images, text files, Markdown files and much more. This software can also be used to convert Microsoft Office documents into PDF** – a feature that many PDF applications do not offer. There are over a hundred features available, including more than thirty tools that can be used to assist in the creation of document comments, annotations and links. These tools make editing PDFs a finely-tuned, precision process that produces documentation and image files of the highest quality. Our user-friendly functionality is diverse enough to meet the needs of all practitioners from novices to professionals. Please see below for an extensive list of all available features and functionality.
*The OCR process identifies text in documents and uses it to create an invisible text layer that is placed on top of the existing text.
**Please note that source files must be text-based in order to be converted into editable text.

PDF-XChange Editor/Viewer OCR Language Extensions can be used to add support for groups of languages or individual language support based on users needs and to reduce the size of required library files.
Last update: April 05, 2019
Language File | Description | Installer Size | Download |
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Africa | Languages included: Afrikaans (5.0 MB), Amharic (2.8 MB), Swahili (3.7 MB), Tigrinya (1.7 MB) |
42.2 MB | OCRTessLangPack_Africa.zip |
Europe South | Languages included: Bosnian (5.2 MB), Italian (13.6 MB), Portuguese (12.3 MB), Serbian (4.4 MB), Catalan; Valencian (5.1 MB), Greek, Ancient (4.9 MB), Italian – Old (13.4 MB), Basque (4.7 MB), Macedonian (3.7 MB), Maltese (4.9 MB), Croatian (8.7 MB), Slovenian (6.5 MB), Greek, Modern (5.2 MB), Spanish; Castilian – Old (16.0 MB), Albanian (6.3 MB), Serbian – Latin (5.8 MB) |
386.0 MB | OCRTessLangPack_EuropeSouth.zip |
Europe North | Languages included: Norwegian (7.9 MB), Icelandic (5.8 MB), Latvian (7.4 MB), Lithuanian (8.5 MB), Estonian (9.2 MB) |
124.3 MB | OCRTessLangPack_EuropeNorth.zip |
JapanKorea | Languages included: Japanese (31.5 MB), Korean (12.7 MB) |
141.5 MB | OCRTessLangPack_JapanKorea.zip |
America | Languages included: Cherokee (1.0 MB), Haitian; Haitian Creole (1.3 MB), Inuktitut (971.9 kB) |
10.5 MB | OCRTessLangPack_America.zip |
Indonesia | Languages included: Cebuano (1.6 MB), Indonesian (6.2 MB), Malay (6.2 MB), Javanese (4.2 MB), Tagalog (3.9 MB) |
70.8 MB | OCRTessLangPack_Indonesia.zip |
Indostan | Languages included: Bengali (14.8 MB), Vietnamese (5.8 MB), Dzongkha (3.2 MB), Central Khmer (46.6 MB), Lao (20.1 MB), Burmese (66.5 MB), Nepali (15.1 MB), Thai (12.9 MB) |
592.4 MB | OCRTessLangPack_Indostan.zip |
Middle East | Languages included: Persian (4.6 MB), Arabic (6.0 MB), Turkish (13.4 MB), Kurdish (1.9 MB), Hebrew (4.1 MB), Pushto; Pashto (2.4 MB), Urdu (4.6 MB), Syriac (2.6 MB), Yiddish (4.0 MB) |
139.9 MB | OCRTessLangPack_MiddleEast.zip |
India | Languages included: Assamese (15.1 MB), Gujarati (10.1 MB), Kannada (34.0 MB), Malayalam (8.4 MB), Marathi (13.6 MB), Oriya (7.5 MB), Panjabi; Punjabi (9.7 MB), Sanskrit (21.7 MB), Sinhala; Sinhalese (6.5 MB), Telugu (37.5 MB), Hindi (13.5 MB), Tamil (4.9 MB) |
584.0 MB | OCRTessLangPack_India.zip |
Central Asia | Languages included: Azerbaijani – Cyrillic (2.7 MB), Georgian – Old (643.9 kB), Kirghiz; Kyrgyz (5.2 MB), Kazakh (4.3 MB), Azerbaijani (6.3 MB), Uzbek (4.1 MB), Tajik (1.1 MB), Georgian (5.9 MB), Uzbek – Cyrillic (3.2 MB) |
107.0 MB | OCRTessLangPack_CentralAsia.zip |
Europe | Languages included: English (20.9 MB), Swedish (9.0 MB), German (12.7 MB), French (13.4 MB), Spanish; Castilian (15.2 MB), Finnish (12.7 MB), Czech (11.3 MB) |
304.8 MB | OCRTessLangPack_Europe.zip |
China | Languages included: Tibetan (24.1 MB), Chinese – Simplified (40.1 MB), Chinese – Traditional (54.1 MB), Uighur; Uyghur (1.9 MB) |
384.6 MB | OCRTessLangPack_China.zip |
Europe East | Languages included: Russian (15.4 MB), Polish (13.3 MB), Ukrainian (7.7 MB), Hungarian (11.6 MB), Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan (7.6 MB), Bulgarian (5.7 MB), Slovak (8.7 MB), Belarusian (6.5 MB), Slovak (Fraktur) (825.4 kB) |
247.5 MB | OCRTessLangPack_EuropeEast.zip |
Europe West | Languages included: English, Middle (2.0 MB), Frankish (15.7 MB), French, Middle (15.1 MB), Irish (3.3 MB), Esperanto (6.3 MB), Danish (7.0 MB), Dutch; Flemish (16.3 MB), Galician (5.3 MB), Latin (5.7 MB), Welsh (3.6 MB), German (Fraktur) (1.9 MB), Danish (Fraktur) (1.5 MB) |
268.1 MB | OCRTessLangPack_EuropeWest.zip |