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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. SwifDoo PDF Pro gives you lifetime access to a full PDF editor, converter, and OCR tool for Windows for $34.99 (reg. Adobe Acrobat is still the name most people reach for when they need to edit a PDF, and its subscription price reflects that. SwifDoo PDF Pro gets you the same core toolset without the recurring fee: a perpetual lifetime license for Windows is on sale for $34.99 (reg. Expect the basics here too: splitting and merging files, editing text, and converting PDFs to and from Word, Excel, and image formats.