PDF Hyperlink Creator

Developed by Adobe in the 1990s, the PDF still reigns as one of the favorite file formats for moving important documents around. This function is right there in the name (Portable Document Format) and you can always rely on these files to keep your formatting, media and to be relatively secure.

Of course, the most straightforward way to edit a PDF is by using Adobe Acrobat, but if you’re not willing to pay for the whole suite, the Internet can provide many alternatives. There are also other programs that focus on one single editing task, but promise to do it even better than Acrobat. The question is, do they succeed?

Documents with links are great because they can help you guide the reader to important references or even products and services. Undoubtedly, there will be situations when you will need to insert many links into many PDF files; and you’ll probably need to do it fast too. In this case, Acrobat may not be your best option, because it doesn’t have a way of batching the hyperlinking process.

Well, PDF Hyperlink Creator is a program that promises to fix that. At first sight, it seems to work just fine. First, you must add the PDF files that you need to edit in the program’s interface (you can simply drag and drop as many as you need). Then, you should choose one of two methods of work.

In Common Mode, you must first specify the anchors – which are the words that must contain hyperlinks. Then you have to click Search Anchors, so that the program detects the words in the documents. Afterwards, paste an URL for each anchor and click Insert URL. Mind you that PDF Link Creator has no way of actually stylizing your anchors.

There is also a Special Mode, where you can supposedly import TXT files with lists of anchors and URLs. Unfortunately this mode doesn’t seem to work and it can make the program crash. Until this big issue is fixed, PDF Hyperlinks Creator remains an application with limited functions.