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LightPDF AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-powered online and desktop PDF suite to edit, convert, OCR, sign, organize and chat with documents across devices.
1.8M visits/mo12K saves
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PDFgear
✓ verifiedFree
Free desktop and web PDF suite for editing, converting, OCR, and signing, with built-in AI chat and summarization.
3.0M visits/mo310 saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Basic: $0/month
Pro: $20/month
Team: $49/month
No public pricing
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Core features
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- ✦Integration with Notion databases
- ✦Unlimited fields and submissions
- ✦Customizable form styling
- ✦Conditional logic and validation rules
- ✦Ready-made form templates
- ✦File uploads
- ✦Multi-page forms
- ✦Email, Slack, and Discord notifications
- ✦Submission editing
- ✦Form protection (password, captcha)
- ✦Voice, video, audio, and text surveys and forms
- ✦AI Probing
- ✦AI Survey Generation
- ✦AI Translation (50+ languages)
- ✦AI Transcription
- ✦Sentiment and Thematic Analysis
- ✦Standard Survey Features (multiple choice, likert scale, etc.)
- ✦Voice and Video Responses
- ✦Branching and Logic
- ✦Customization
- ✦Edit, convert and annotate PDFs
- ✦OCR and scanned-PDF enhancement
- ✦AI summarize and chat with documents
- ✦E-signature and document organization
- ✦Batch processing
- ✦Cross-platform: Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android
- ✦Edit text, images, and form fields in PDFs
- ✦Convert between PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images
- ✦OCR with 30+ language support
- ✦Annotate with highlights, notes, and stamps
- ✦AI chat and summarization built into the app
- ✦Cross-device sync across desktop, web, and mobile
Use cases
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- →Guest blog submission forms
- →Event attendee check-in forms
- →Customer satisfaction surveys
- →Patient intake forms
- →Photography quotation requests
- →Equipment rental requests
- →Photo shoot permit requests
- →Concept Testing
- →Net Promoter Score
- →Brand Tracking
- →Diary Study
- →Product Feedback
- →Exploratory Research
- →Event Feedback
- →Creative Testing
- →Convert and edit PDFs online or on desktop
- →Summarize or ask questions about documents
- →OCR scanned PDFs into editable text
- →Sign and organize documents across devices
- →Editing and converting PDFs without paying for Adobe Acrobat
- →Summarizing long PDFs with built-in AI chat
- →OCR-ing scanned documents into editable text
- →Signing documents on desktop or mobile
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