Turn Days of PDF Work Into Minutes
Free online PDF tools, Adobe Acrobat plug-ins, a REST API, and custom development — for teams that can't afford slow document workflows or costly mistakes. Free trials, perpetual licences, no subscription lock-in.
Trusted since 1991 by
Hallmark Cards
8,000 designs × 200 variations: data entry cut from five stages to one.
Read case study →Network Rail
WONView: route-specific, per-driver safety books generated automatically each week.
Read case study →SMART Technologies
Custom Illustrator plugin: SMART Board hand gestures driving Illustrator natively.
Read case study →Find Your Starting Point
Three ways into Mapsoft. Pick the one that fits how you work today — not everything here is for everyone.
For PDF workflow users
You work with PDFs every day
Legal, pharma, publishing, government, architecture — anyone who lives inside Acrobat. Stop doing by hand what a plug-in can do in seconds: bookmarking, redaction, stamping, batch processing, mail-merge, resizing.
For enterprise & server buyers
PDF at scale, behind your firewall
REST APIs, server-side SDKs, on-premises deployments, custom integrations. The same engine that powers our plug-ins is available as the Adobe PDF Library for C++/Java/.NET, or as a REST API at pdf.mapsoft.com.
PDF Tools: From Free to Enterprise
One PDF engine, three deployment models. Start free in your browser, integrate via API, or run on-premises — whichever fits the way your team works.
Step 1 — Free
Browser-Based PDF Tools
60+ ad-hoc PDF tools at pdf.mapsoft.com — merge, OCR, compress, convert, sign, redact, and more. No installation, no licence, no signup. The fastest way to try the engine on a real file.
Step 2 — Integrate
PDF Hub REST API
The same 60+ operations available as a REST API for developers. Integrate PDF processing into your own application, automate at volume, and pay only for what you use. The natural next step when ad-hoc tools no longer keep up.
Step 3 — Enterprise
On-Premises & Custom
When the cloud doesn't fit — regulated workloads, sovereign data, behind-the-firewall deployment — Mapsoft delivers the Adobe PDF Library (C++/Java/.NET SDK from Datalogics) and custom-developed PDF solutions running entirely inside your environment.
Already use Adobe Acrobat? Our Acrobat plug-ins bring the same engine into the desktop, with batch processing and saved configurations.
Featured Products
Our most popular Acrobat plug-ins trusted by professionals worldwide.
Bookmarker
Create and manage PDF bookmarks with ease. Automate bookmark creation from document structure.
MaskIt
Hide or permanently remove sensitive content from PDF documents for secure sharing and compliance.
Engage
Powerful mail merge and variable data printing for PDFs. Personalize documents at scale.
FDA Checker
Ensure your PDF submissions meet FDA compliance requirements with automated checking.
Industries We Serve
Where our tools and services show up most. The right combination depends on the documents you handle every day.
Legal & Compliance
Lawyers, paralegals, and compliance officers who need reliable redaction, bookmarking, and digital signatures for sensitive documents.
Pharma & Life Sciences
Regulatory teams preparing FDA-compliant submissions and managing large, structured document packages.
Architecture & Engineering
Practices like Foster + Partners that need automated tables of contents, bookmarking, and navigation across large drawing sets.
Finance & Insurance
Banks, insurers, and wealth managers who require document security, redaction, and audit-ready PDF workflows.
Publishing & Print
Publishers and print houses working with colour management, variable data printing, and print-ready PDFs.
Government & Public Sector
Agencies that need accessible documents, tagged PDFs, and tools that meet regulatory standards.
Why It Matters
Document workflows that should take minutes often take hours. We fix that.
Manual Work Doesn't Scale
Bookmarking a 500-page PDF by hand, redacting hundreds of documents one at a time, or rebuilding a table of contents after every revision — these tasks consume skilled people's time on work a machine should do.
Mistakes Are Expensive
A missed redaction can expose confidential data. A broken bookmark tree can delay an FDA submission. An inaccessible PDF can trigger a compliance violation. The right tools eliminate these risks at the source.
Adobe Alone Isn't Enough
Acrobat is powerful, but it wasn't built for every workflow. Our plug-ins fill the gaps — automating repetitive tasks, enforcing standards, and handling edge cases that out-of-the-box Acrobat simply can't.
"We are completely satisfied with the MaskIt solution."
Noreen Warren, SONY
Why Trust Us
We've been doing this since before most PDF companies existed.
In Business Since 1991
Over three decades of continuous operation. We were building Acrobat plugins when PDF was still new. That depth of experience means fewer surprises and faster solutions for you.
Trusted by Household Names
Adobe, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Lloyd's of London, Foster + Partners, Network Rail, SMART Technologies, and ExxonMobil are among the organisations that rely on our software. See our clients →
"Mapsoft had the experience and expertise to create a solution tailor-made to meet our specific business needs."
Vanessa Redshaw, Hallmark
Your Data Never Leaves
Every plugin runs 100% on your machine. No cloud uploads, no external servers, no tracking. All installers are digitally signed so you know the software is authentic.
Try Before You Buy
Every product has a free trial. No credit card required, no time-limited nag screens — just download and evaluate on your own terms. Download now →
Real Human Support
When you contact us, you talk to the people who built the software — not a helpdesk script. Questions get answered, problems get solved. Get in touch →
No Subscription Lock-In
Buy a perpetual licence and own it outright. No recurring fees, no forced upgrades. Optional upgrade pricing when new versions ship, on your schedule. See licence options →
Case Studies
Real projects, real results.
Hallmark Cards
The problem: A paper-based system required the same data to be entered up to five times per card design across 8,000 designs with up to 200 variations each.
What we built: Card Create, a PDF server solution that collates data once and automatically inserts barcodes, pricing, and content into every variation.
The result: Data entry went from five stages to one. Errors dropped dramatically. Designers went back to designing.
"Card Create has now become a standard and indeed essential element of the card production process."
Vanessa Redshaw, Digital Technology Manager, Hallmark
Network Rail
The problem: Train drivers operating at 125 mph had to search through a thick national document covering every mile of track in the UK to find safety information for their specific route.
What we built: WONView, an Adobe Acrobat-based system that automatically extracts route-specific information from Weekly Operating Notices and generates compact, per-driver books.
The result: Drivers receive only the safety information relevant to their route. Distribution is automated weekly. Documents are password-protected and print exactly to railway standards.
"When you're driving a train at 125 miles per hour, the last thing you want to do is hunt through a big thick book covering the whole country."
Originally published by the Adobe Solutions Network
SMART Technologies
The problem: SMART wanted users to be able to annotate designs in Adobe Illustrator using the same natural hand gestures they used on SMART whiteboards — but Illustrator had no support for this.
What we built: A custom Illustrator plugin that added annotation tools and translated SMART whiteboard hand gestures into Illustrator actions.
The result: Users could annotate, navigate, and interact with Illustrator documents using familiar touch gestures directly from a SMART Board.
Don't Take Our Word for It
Here's what our customers actually experienced.
"What used to take two weeks of manually creating links now takes two minutes."
Mark V.
Oregon
"The software repaid its costs through time saved in a matter of days."
Steve Foxall
Qioptiq Ltd.
"Saved me hours — actually, days worth of work. Impressive professionalism."
Terri Haskas
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
"User friendly, efficient, and will save days of work on our projects."
Willem Goovaerts
Industrial Pharmacist
"The improvements I requested were included in an elegant update within a couple of weeks. That kind of responsiveness is rare."
Steve Ramos
IT Director, Solano County Office of Education
"$199 well spent — it performs exactly as promised."
Rhonda Frank
Contract Project Manager/Paralegal, QD Consultation Group
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