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Docudesk

American software company based in Plano, founded in 20011

Docudesk offers commercial PDF software for creating and converting portable document format (PDF) files. deskPDF is used for creating PDFs from Windows applications. The professional version includes PDF merging, Office integration, & 40-bit or 128-bit encryption. deskUNPDF converts PDFs to output formats including Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and HTML. deskPDF provides support for the OSI 1.6 Portable Document Format standard.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2001Founded1

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Docudesk offers commercial PDF software for creating and converting portable document format (PDF) files. deskPDF is used for creating PDFs from Windows applications. The professional version includes PDF merging, Office integration, & 40-bit or 128-bit encryption. deskUNPDF converts PDFs to output formats including Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and HTML. deskPDF provides support for the OSI 1.6 Portable Document Format standard.2

Products and brands

Products

deskPDF Standard

deskPDF Standard is a PDF creation utility which uses PostScript technology and allows for creation of PDFs from any file that can be printed, and can be used by virtually any Windows program. deskPDF provides support for the OSI 1.6 Portable Document Format standard.

deskPDF Professional

deskPDF Professional features Microsoft Office integration including hyperlink, table of contents, and bookmark conversion. 128 bit security includes settings for controlling the printing and modification of the PDF, as well as password protection capabilities. The professional version also allows for merging PDFs, and placing stamps or a letterhead at the time of conversion.

deskUNPDF Standard

deskUNPDF Standard allows for conversion of a PDF into an editable format such as.doc or.rtf. The converted document can be modified by any word processor such as Word or Open Office Writer.

deskUNPDF Professional

In addition to PDF to Word capabilities, deskUNPDF Professional features PDF conversion to:.xls (Excel),.odt (Open Document), HTML, and image formats (.bmp,.jpg,.tif &.png). Other formats include.xhtml,.svg,.xml,.csv,.txt, and.lrf. (Sony Reader Format).

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deskUNPDF for Mac

deskUNPDF for Mac was released in January, 2008 and includes the same current feature set of deskUNPDF Professional for Windows. System requirements include either OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or OS X 10.4 (Tiger) operating systems. deskUNPDF for Mac version 3 was released in spring of 2009 and updated to support (Snow Leopard) or OS X 10.6

PDF Essentials Plus

PDF Essentials combines the PDF creation of deskPDF Professional with the conversion cabilities of deskUNPDF Standard. PDF Essentials Plus includes the additional output formats available in deskUNPDF Professional. With PDF Essentials Plus, any file which can be printed can be converted to any of the formats available in deskUNPDF, such as extracting tabular data from a website into an Excel spreadsheet, converting a Word document into an e-book format (.lrf), or saving a PowerPoint presentation as HTML.

Enterprise and Terminal Services

Enterprise deployments, installation customization and license management are facilitated by the.MSI installers and Admin & Deployment Kit (ADK) including the deskPDF Configuration Tool (dCT).

Terminal Services and Citrix editions of deskPDF Standard, deskPDF Professional, deskUNPDF Standard, deskUNPDF Professional, PDF Essentials, & PDF Essentials Plus are available. The Terminal Services versions are fully supported for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

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Timeline

  1. 2001Founded Founded in Houston1

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