Alternatives and comparisons

How filedone compares with the PDF tools people already use, on the things people compare: editing the words on a scanned PDF, what is free, how you pay, where your file goes and the limits. Each page starts with what the other tool does better.

filedone vs Adobe AcrobatThe complete PDF application: authoring, forms, redaction, comparison. filedone is for one change on a scan, paid per job, and free tools that never upload.filedone vs SejdaA broad PDF toolkit with a desktop app that works offline and a one-time week pass. Its editor does not change text in scanned PDFs.filedone vs iLovePDFA wide toolkit with desktop and mobile apps and a Premium plan. For scans, its pages describe OCR to a searchable PDF or an Office file, not editing the scan in place.filedone vs SmallpdfA polished toolkit with apps, e-signing through Sign.com and AI tools. Editing existing text is a Pro feature, and scans go through OCR first.

How these pages are written

Their strengths come first, before any table, in specifics.
Every fact about another product is from its own website, listed under Sources with the day we read it. A fact we could not read there is left out, including a price that its page did not show us.
Every fact about filedone can be checked on this site, and its prices are read from the same settings that bill.
Products change. If a page is out of date, it is a mistake we want to hear about: support@filedone.ai.

Try it on a test file

The free sample files include scans, an invoice and a bank statement, all fictional, so you can run the same file through two tools and compare. The guides answer the questions behind most comparisons, such as whether you can edit the text in a scanned PDF.