Overview

PDF files are great for exchanging formatted files across platforms and between folks who don't use the same software. But sometimes we need to be able to take images or text out of a PDF file and use it in web pages, word processing documents, PowerPoint presentations, or in desktop publishing software. PDF Snipping Tool might probably be an ideal solution that works best for you.

PDF Snipping Tool software allows you to open and view PDF files, and snip the text, picture, image, photo, chart, and other graphical elements out of PDF files. Simply use your cursor to draw out a rectangle around the area you want to snip, press Ctrl-C, and the text in your selected area will be copied to Windows clipboard; press Ctrl-X, and the selected area will be copied as an image to Windows clipboard. You can save your selection to a JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, EMF, WMF, or EPS file if you press Ctrl-S.

The software brings a new snipping method to PDF professionals, Quick Save, which enables you to bypass the annoying Save-As-File dialog and save your PDF pages or selected areas as image files in the output folder of your choice. Draw a rectangle area around your desired content, click Ctrl-S, and the content will be saved as an image file in your output folder. You might as well extract text in your selected area if you specify the output format to TXT.

PDF Snipping Tool offers you additional features such as to send your desired graphical elements to email as an attachment with just one click. Dropping your desired PDF page as a full-page image or a portion of the page as a picture to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and CorelDRAW becomes easy with just a few clicks.

You can adjust the DPI or dimension of your snipped portion or your whole PDF page before copying to clipboard or saving to file with the help of the Preview window. Rotation gives you better decision on how your selection or your PDF page will look like.

Included with the software are other useful features such as to convert PDF document to other formats such as TXT, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, EMF, WMF, EPS, slide show a PDF file for presentation, zoom in and zoom out, rotate clockwise and counterclockwise, navigate across pages, change hot key settings, print PDF file, become default PDF viewer, and show document security information.