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with AI Assistant

Read PDF with AI and extensive user-friendly PDF viewer features.

Read PDF Files Like Never Before

PDFgear significantly improves your PDF reading experience with advanced PDF viewing and editing features and an AI reading assistant that helps quickly get the gist of the document.

Read PDFs with AI

PDFgear integrates a GPT-powered AI assistant to save tons of time reading large PDFs like research papers. With it, you can understand dozens of PDF pages in a matter of seconds.

It helps summarize, manage, translate, rewrite, extract information from, and even translate PDFs using natural language.

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Edit While Reading

Edit While Reading

Also a full-featured PDF editor, PDFgear allows you to edit existing content, highlight text, and add notes, comments, or free drawings to specific parts of the document for review or clarification.

Students can take notes while reading papers by adding sticky notes, while teachers can use the annotation feature to provide valuable feedback on PDF assignments.

Read with Others

When you need to send the PDF to other people after reading it, PDFgear serves as a good help as well.

Add electronic signatures to documents for authorization, print PDFs with comments, and use simple clicks to convert PDFs to more compatible and portable formats like Microsoft Word or JPG.

Read with Others
Eye-Friendly PDF Viewer

Eye-Friendly PDF Viewer

PDFgear eases your eyes while reading with various customizations. First off, you can switch the default light mode (day mode) to a dark mode (night mode) to lower eye strain, blue light, and glare.

Secondly, you also get to change the PDF reading backgrounds to white, gray, green, and yellow colors to suit your preference.

Better Navigations

PDFgear also delivers better page navigations for lengthier PDF documents with a bookmark tool that acts like an interactive table of contents and a page thumbnail view for you to intuitively find and locate the desired PDF pages.

Better Navigations
Find and Replace Text

Find and Replace Text

Use a simple keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F (Windows) or Command + F (Mac) to search a PDF for words, phrases, or sentences in your document.

With the direct text editing feature, you can instantly delete or replace any text in your editable PDF file, with the original formatting preserved.

Alternative Solution: Read PDF Online for Free

View and edit PDFs online for free in a web browser, without signing up for an account, and without software installation.

Features PDFgear Software PDFgear Online Editor
Navigate with page thumbnails
Search a PDF
Zoom in/out
Edit text Only add text boxes
Annotate & comment a PDF
Multi-page view
Open PDFs offline
Change reading themes
Manage PDF pages
Copy text in PDF Selectable PDFs only
View and add bookmarks Only view

Your Questions are
Answered

Your Questions are Answered

Is PDFgear really free to use?

Yes, PDFgear is totally free to use. Here you can see the reasons.

Moreover, you don’t have to sign up. And your exported files will not own a watermark either. All these advanced features, like OCR, format converting, and direct text editing are available without cost.

How can I use the AI assistant while reading?

When in the PDF reader & editor main workplace, click the lower-right chatbot icon to access PDFgear Chatbot. It will then automatically generate the summary of the PDF and example questions.

Ask anything you want regarding the document! Moreover, copy text from the PDF and paste it into the chatbot for further processing.

How do I set PDFgear as my default PDF viewer?

This process varies by operating system. Generally, you can right-click on a PDF file, select 'Properties' (on Windows) or 'Get Info' (on macOS), and then choose PDFgear as the default application for opening PDF files.

Can I annotate the PDF while reading?

Yes, PDFgear comes with tools that allow you to highlight, underline, or strikethrough text. You can also add notes and comments.

What operating systems does PDFgear support?

PDFgear app is available on Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS, and iOS. There is also a web-based version that works on any operating system with a modern web browser.

Is PDFgear safe to use?

Yes, PDFgear is safe to use when downloaded from the official website. PDFgears follows strict security processes and privacy policies, and it is approved by leading user review platforms and media websites. Learn more.

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