User Guide for Windows

Here you find all solutions to the most common issues for Windows.

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Front page

  • Open file
  • Open files in AmindPDF

Edit

  • Edit PDF
  • Text box
  • Edit pictures
  • New/Update/Delete Watermark

File management

  • Open a file
  • Save
  • Print

Annotation

  • Add annotation
  • Add highlight, underline, strikeout
  • Drawing tools
  • Add sticky note

Page management

  • Page management
  • Insert page
  • Extract pages
  • Replace page
  • Split page
  • Delete page
  • Rotate the page
  • Zoom in and out of page thumbnails

Safety protection

  • Set password

Tool

  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
  • Create PDF
  • Merge PDF

Read

  • Screen adaptation
  • Click to slide the page, click to select the text

Find

  • Search by keyword in full text

Directory Navigation Bar

  • Thumbnail panel:
  • Directory Navigation Bar:

Directory Navigation Bar

  • PDF to Word
  • PDF to PPT
  • PDF to Excel
  • PDF to Image

Open file

  • ● Double-click the PDF document
  • ● Double-click the PDF document to open with Amindpdf. If the software that opens the PDF document is not Amindpdf, please right-click the PDF document and select Amindpdf in the open method.

Open files in AmindPDF

● In the "Open File" on the home page, click "Select File" or drag the file into the task box to import PDF files

Edit PDF

With Amindpdf, you can edit the text in the paragraph as well as change its font, font size, and color. To edit the text in a paragraph, please do the following:
  • ● Click "Edit PDF" on the home page to open the file, select the text paragraphs and pictures to be edited, and select the required tools in the toolbar on the right
  • ● Select "Edit" at the top to enter the edit mode. Click on the text to start editing by typing new text and deleting text.

    • Text box

  • ● Click "Add Text Box" on the upper toolbar, click any blank to add a text box, and enter text
  • ● Select the text to change its font, font size, bold, italic and color, etc. as desired.

    • Edit pictures

    When reading a PDF, you may also need to edit the images in the PDF file. With Amindpdf, you can easily add and edit images. To edit a picture, please do the following:
  • ● Click "Add Picture" on the upper toolbar, select the desired picture, and click Open
  • ● Drag the mouse cursor over the border of the blue frame to allow you to resize the image. Right-click the image and select options such as "Rotate Left", "Rotate Right", "Flip Horizontal", "Flip Vertical", "Extract Image", "Replace Image", etc.

    • New/Update/Delete Watermark

    After opening the PDF file in the program, click "Watermark" on the upper toolbar, and select the desired operation in the pop-up window.
  • ● New watermark: add a new watermark on the document, you can add text or image as the watermark, and set the watermark's position, rotation angle, size, and so on in the properties.
  • ● Update watermark: modify the existing watermark and modify the properties of the watermark.
  • ● Delete Watermark: Delete the watermark in the document (watermarks not created by Amindpdf may not be deleted successfully).

    • Open a file

    ● Click "Open" in the upper left corner, select the file under the path, and click OK

    Save

    ● Click "Save" in the upper left corner, select the path, and click OK

    Print

    ● Click "Print" in the upper left corner, select the printing device, and click OK

    Add annotation

    You can also easily edit, delete and move annotations. Click the "Annotate" button to enter the PDF annotation interface. The main annotation functions that can be added are: highlight, underline, strikethrough, pencil, eraser, line, rectangle, ellipse, polyline, polygon, and annotation notes;

    Add highlight, underline, strikeout

    ● Click "Save" in the upper left corner, select the path, and click OK
  • ● Highlight: Click the " Comment " button, then click the "Highlight" icon in the submenu bar, select the area in the text that needs to be highlighted and add it directly, right-click and select "Properties" to modify the highlight color;
  • ● Underline: Click the "Comment" button, then click the "Underline" icon in the submenu bar, select the area in the text that needs to be underlined, and add it directly, right-click and select "Properties" to modify the color of the underline;
  • ● Strikethrough: Click the "Comment" button, then click the "Strikeout" button in the submenu bar, select the area in the text where you want to add a strikethrough and add it directly, right-click and select "Properties" to modify the color of the strikethrough;

    • Drawing tools

    Drawing tools can help you add different graphic elements in PDF, such as lines, rectangles, polygons, ellipses, and other images.
  • ● Pencil: draw with a pencil;
  • ● Eraser: can erase the content added by the pencil;
  • ● Line: draw a line;
  • ● Rectangle: draw a rectangle;
  • ● Ellipse: draw an ellipse or use the Shift key to draw a circle;
  • ● Line: draw a line chart;
  • ● Polygon: draw polygon;

    • Add sticky note

  • ● Double-click any newly added note content, a note will pop up, and you can add content to the note;
  • ● Note: After clicking the "icon, click any blank space to add a note

    • Page management

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    Insert page

  • ● Insert blank page: click "Blank Page" to insert a blank page, or you can right-click "Insert Page" and "Blank Page" to insert;
  • ● Insert from file: click "Insert from File" to select the file to insert, or right-click "Insert Page" and "Insert from PDF";
  • ● Insert from picture: Right-click "Insert Page" and "Insert Picture from Picture"

    • Extract pages

    Click the "Extract" button, the page extraction dialog box will pop up, you can input the serial number of the page to be extracted, and then select the extraction range to extract as a separate file

    Replace page

  • ● Click the "Replace" button, in the Replace Pages window, you can set the page range of the current PDF file, click the "Browse" button to select the replacement PDF, and set the page range of the replacement PDF.

    • Split page

  • ● Click the "Split" button, the split PDF dialog box will pop up, you can split the file "by number of pages", "by file size", "by outline", and you can also choose the save location of the split file

    • Delete page

  • ● Enter the page to be deleted directly on the left side of the "Delete" icon, and click the "Delete" button to delete the page;
  • ● Select the page to be deleted on the page thumbnail, you can click Ctrl to select multiple pages at the same time, right-click and then "Delete Page"

    • Rotate the page

  • ● Select single or multiple pages to be rotated, click the "Rotate Left" or "Rotate Right" button on the page to rotate, or you can select the page and right-click to select the "Rotate Left" or "Rotate Right" button to rotate.

    • Zoom in and out of page thumbnails

  • ● Right-click on the page thumbnail and click "Enlarge Page Thumbnail" or "Shrink Page Thumbnail"

    • Set password

    Click the "Protect" button, and click the "Password" button to pop up the "Password Protection" dialog box, where you can set the file open permission password, file modification permission password, etc.

    OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

    Amindpdf OCR function is to convert the text in the picture into text. Using the OCR function, you can easily convert scanned PDFs and image-based PDFs into various formats with editable, selectable, and searchable content, such as Microsoft Office formats, PPT, pages, or plain text documents (TXT files)
  • Open the document that needs text recognition, click the text recognition function under the toolbar, and select the language to be recognized
  • Automatically create a new recognized OCR document, open it directly and start new PDF editing.

    • Create PDF

  • Click the Create "PDF button" below the toolbar. When creating from a local file, you can import Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, or images, then click OK.
  • You can choose to merge into one document or separate documents, select and click OK.
  • The created new PDF file will be directly saved in the original document for subsequent editing.

    • Merge PDF

  • Click the Merge PDF option below the toolbar, and click Merge PDF to automatically jump to the merge operation interface.
  • Click to select the file to open the PDF document or drag and drop the file to the prompt position on the interface to add the PDF file. After adding, it will automatically enter the merge setting interface. (Selecting multiple files at once is supported.) Click OK.
  • The merged PDF will directly create a new merged PDF file.

    • Screen adaptation

    Amindpdf's screen adaptation function provides a more comfortable and personalized reading experience
  • Click the icon on the right side of the toolbar, including four options: "Current Size", "Fit Page", "Fit Width" and "Fit Visualization"
  • Select “Zoom” in the menu. It provides a variety of page zoom options, including "zoom to page-level" and more.

    • Click to slide the page, click to select the text

  • Click to slide the page: Click the icon below to enter the page browsing mode, and move the mouse to switch the reading position at will.
  • Click to select text: Click the “Selected Text” button to switch from browse page mode to selectable text mode.

    • Search by keyword in full text

  • Enter the text you want to find in the search box
  • To display all search terms, choose to locate the target field.

    • Thumbnail panel:

  • You can view thumbnails by scroll wheel or right slider. Right-click on a page in the Thumbnails panel to resize the thumbnail by selecting "Enlarge Page Thumbnail" and "Shrink Page Thumbnail"

    • Directory Navigation Bar:

  • On the directory navigation page, you can directly jump to the target page by clicking the directory, and you can also delete the directory, add directories and subdirectories, and rename the directory.

    • PDF to Word

  • Open the PDF file that needs to be converted in "AmindPDF", click the "Convert" button, and then click the "Convert Word" button below, the conversion dialog box will pop up, and the converted Word file will be automatically saved in the original PDF file.

    • PDF to PPT

  • Open the file to be converted in "AmindPDF", click the "Convert" button, and then click the "Convert PPT" button below, the conversion dialog box will pop up, and the converted PPT file will be automatically saved in the original PDF file folder.

    • PDF to Excel

  • Open the file to be converted in "AmindPDF", click the "Convert" button, and then click the "Convert to Excel" button below, the conversion dialog box will pop up, and the converted Excel file will be automatically saved in the original PDF file folder.

    • PDF to Image

  • After opening the PDF file to be converted, click the "Convert" button, and then click the "Convert Image" button. The types of PDF to image are: PDF to Jpeg, PDF to Png, PDF to Bitmap, PDF to Tiff, PDF to Gif.
    Click the "Convert to Jpeg" or "Convert to Png" or "Convert to Bitmap" or "Convert to Tiff" or "Convert to Gif" button and the "Choose Folder" button will pop up, you can choose the save location of the converted image, click the "OK" button after The conversion is completed immediately and automatically saved