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Review and Comment
Measure
The Measure tool enables you to easily define the distance, area, and perimeter for a set of points based on a scale that you define.
Review and Comment
Markup a PDF with drawing tools
The drawing tools in Nitro Pro allow you to add predefined shapes (for example, lines, rectangles, or ovals) as well as free-form drawings to your PDF documents. These drawing tools include a corresponding pop-up note, enabling you to provide additional comments or further explanation for each drawing. You can also change the appearance of your drawings, with options for color, opacity, pointer styles, and more, depending on the type of drawing you use.
Review and Comment
Manage and view comments in a PDF
Nitro Pro lets you view all comments in your PDF file from a single location. The Comments pane lists all of the comments in your file, along with information relating to each comment.
View and Navigate PDF Files
Multiple documents in parallel view
You can view two or more PDF documents side-by-side in Nitro Pro without needing to use two screens, and without running another copy of the application.
Integrations
Microsoft RMS
Microsoft Rights Management (RMS) provides a service that protects and shares files by allowing you to encrypt your sensitive documents and restrict access to approved individuals only.
View and Navigate PDF Files
Navigation panes
The Navigation Panes are useful when browsing larger PDF documents, giving you a global view of the pages and bookmarks included in the document.
JavaScript Objects
OCG object
This object provides support for Optional Content Groups. OCGs hold a collection of graphical objects, and are known as layers. You can dynamically switch properties of layers to make them visible or invisible to provide navigation in a PDF document.
View and Navigate PDF Files
Nitro PDF Web Browser Plugin
When you click a PDF file in your web browser, the Nitro Web Browser Plugin reads the file and displays it in the web browser.
Scanning and OCR
OCR Preferences
The I.R.I.S. OCR plugin fully integrates with Nitro Pro allowing it to recognize text from scanned pages, or from images in open PDF documents. The OCR utility is fully customizable, with options to configure options such as skewed image correction, to image compression settings. You can also enable text recognition for scanners directly on the Create PDF From Scanner dialog, to automatically create PDF documents from scanned pages with text that can be modified or searched.
JavaScript Objects
App Object
A static object that represents the PDF viewer application.