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Choose Basic, Visual or Enhanced by specific task and licensing rather than by product name alone.

Basic — Free

Free, open source, offline. No PDFsam-added watermark.

Examples: Merge, split, extract, rotate, mix, insert.

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Visual — Trial / Paid

Broader visual page organization with commercial licensing.

Examples: Crop, compress, visually organize, manipulate pages.

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Enhanced — Editing

A separate Windows editor with free and paid capabilities.

Examples: PDF text editing, OCR, creation, conversion.

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