Global PDF Software Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global PDF Software Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe in the 1990s to display documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems, including text formats and images. Users can use PDF software to view PDF files. At present, the PDF standard has become an internationally recognized document format standard. It has multiple features and advantages such as safety and convenience, and is widely used in electronic official documents, engineering graphics, publishing and printing, file management and other fields.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global PDF Software market finds that the global PDF Software market reached a value of USD 1733.68 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 3361.93 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 11.67% during the forecast period.

Influence of COVID-19 Outbreak on PDF Software Industry Development

The raging COVID-19 has plunged the global economic environment into depression. The impact of COVID-19 on many industries will involve all entities in the industry chain. The company’s management efficiency has declined, commuting has been severely hampered, production plans have been severely hampered, network expansion has been delayed, marketing has been delayed, brand adjustment has been forced, market sales have fallen, and company and employee income has fallen. The government has also put forward higher requirements for the production and operation of enterprises.

The coronavirus epidemic is still spreading globally. Affected by the coronavirus epidemic, some institutional clients have postponed procurement plans due to reduced office efficiency, restricted office conditions, and shrinking budgets, which has slowed down the growth of the industry. If the coronavirus epidemic continues to spread and cannot be effectively controlled, the industry may be at risk of revenue decline in the future.

Market Driver Analysis

In recent years, the new generation of information technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, as cutting-edge technologies for improving productivity and information processing, has become the future development trend of the software industry. Enterprises in many industries have actively introduced relevant technologies to improve product ease of use, safety, convenience, and efficiency, and have achieved initial results.

For example, cloud computing is increasingly widely used in the industry. By introducing cloud service-related technologies into PDF electronic documents, closed-loop management of document creation, review, release, circulation, and archiving can be carried out with the help of cloud services, and documents, people and applications Mutual connection enables documents to have document protection, dynamic authorization, online collaboration, status tracking and other functions, to achieve remote review and collaboration of documents, and to create archives for massive documents through cloud services, and to track the status of document viewing, which can ensure that documents are in The data security in the circulation process realizes the in-depth combination of document protection and sharing, and is suitable for government documents, legal documents, electronic bills, and other fields that require stricter information confidentiality.

Region Overview:

North America had the highest growth rate of all regions.

Company Overview:

Adobe is one of the major players operating in the PDF Software market, holding a share of 76.85% in 2021.

Adobe Inc. develops, markets, and supports computer software products and technologies. The Company's products allow users to express and use information across all print and electronic media. Adobe offers a line of application software products, type products, and content for creating, distributing, and managing information.

Foxit Software Incorporated provides computer products. The Company offers rendition server, foxit reader, mobile PDF, and toolkit. Foxit Software serves customers worldwide.

Segmentation Overview:

Among different product types, Cloud-Based segment is anticipated to contribute the largest market share in 2027.

Application Overview:

By application, the Large Enterprise segment occupied the biggest share from 2017 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global PDF Software market covered in Chapter 3:

ABBYY
pdfforge
Wondershare
Nitro Software
Foxit Software
Kofax
Tracker Software Products
Adobe
iText Group
NCH Software
PlotSoft

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the PDF Software market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Cloud-Based
On-Premise

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the PDF Software market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Large Enterprise
SME
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)