TL;DR: AcePDF is just $23.97 (reg. $99.99) through Sept. 10, giving you lifetime PDF conversion, editing, OCR, forms, compression, merging, and more on Windows and Mac.

PDFs are just fine until someone expects you to actually do something with one.

Through Sept. 10, the AcePDF Converter & Editor Lifetime License is $23.97 (reg. $99.99) during this Labor Day sale. Pay once, and you get a toolbox for converting, creating, editing, and generally making PDFs behave on both Windows and Mac.

That last part matters: all AcePDF features are now fully supported on both platforms.

AcePDF can convert PDFs into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Text, HTML, PNG, and JPG while preserving original layouts, images, and hyperlinks. Going the other direction? It creates PDFs from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and image files, too.

Batch conversion lets you process multiple PDFs together when your desktop has officially become a document graveyard.

Scanned PDFs aren’t safe from your editing ambitions, either. Built-in OCR can extract text from image-based documents, while the editor lets you work with text, tables, images, and formatted content. You can also build interactive forms from scratch or fill existing PDFs with text, checkboxes, shapes, and annotations.

Then AcePDF tackles the annoying little jobs that usually send us searching for yet another tool. Merge or split PDFs, extract JPG and PNG images, compress oversized documents, add or remove password protection, and insert watermarks, shapes, comments, stamps, notes, and text.

You can even make AcePDF your default PDF reader.

The smart play here is recognizing that converting, editing, OCR, forms, compression, and basic PDF management are jobs you’ll probably need again.

Having one tool that handles them all makes a lot more sense than continuing the PDF scavenger hunt.

Get lifetime access to the AcePDF Converter & Editor for a one-time $23.97 (reg. $99.99) during this Labor Day sale.