{"id":1774,"date":"2026-02-04T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:15:58","slug":"free-pdf-editor-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/02\/04\/free-pdf-editor-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Free PDF\u00a0Editor\u00a0software rolling out on student PCs across campus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/software\/abbyy-finereader\">ABBYY FineReader<\/a> is currently being deployed across 1700+ student PCs on campus and expected to be available on all student PCs by mid-February 2026.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This means that students at Kent now have <strong>free access to professional-grade PDF software<\/strong> on campus, making it easier to edit, convert, and work with documents for coursework, studying, and research.<\/p>\n<h4>What can I do with ABBYY<\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Here are examples of some of the key things you can do with ABBYY FineReader:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Edit text and images directly in a PDF<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Convert PDFs to Word,\u00a0Excel\u00a0or other formats, and back again<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Turn scanned documents into searchable, accessible PDFs<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Combine, split, or reorganise PDF pages<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pdf.abbyy.com\/how-to-videos\/#windows\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Discover more from ABBYY Fine Reader<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and explore what you can do through guidance and video tutorials. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1779\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2026\/02\/ABBYY-Fine-Reader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABBYY FineReader is currently being deployed across 1700+ student PCs on campus and expected to be available on all student PCs by mid-February 2026.\u00a0 This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/02\/04\/free-pdf-editor-software\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46900,"featured_media":1799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,312217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}