Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out forms. Proofread OCR text!
Proofread OCR results
PDFpen does Optical Character Recognition (OCR): turn those pictures of text into words you can use, then proofread them for accuracy
Export in Word Format
Export your PDFs in .doc and .docx format for easy PDF editing and sharing with Microsoft® Word users.
Correct it
Select text in your PDF, click “Correct Text,” and edit away! Editing a PDF on your Mac has never been easier.
Sign it
Sign PDFs on your Mac! Have a scanned signature? Drag it onto a PDF and scale it. Or scribble your signature with a mouse or trackpad. Signed, sealed, delivered: no fax, no fuss.
Store PDFs in the Cloud
Now you can edit your PDFs wherever you are. Use iCloud Drive or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone. (iCloud requires Mac App Store version.)
“Its abilities compare well with Acrobat Pro, and yet PDFpen comes in at roughly a tenth of the cost.”Macworld, Rob Griffiths
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Draw, Highlight, Scribble, Correct Text
- Mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough
- Add text, images and signatures to PDF
- Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks
- Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF
- Copy and paste rich text; retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs, including columns
- Compatible with iCloud Drive
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Scan & OCR — Preview Text
- Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents
- Viewable OCR text layer for proofing OCR text from scanned pages
- Scan directly from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners
- Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document
- Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits
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Redact Personal Information
- Redact or erase text, including OCR text
- Password protect a document with up to 256-bit AES encryption
- Full screen mode, as well as zoom to document width and zoom to actual document size
- Print notes and comments with or without the original text
- Print a list of all annotations along with the document
- Add (and print) notes and comments
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Sign & Fill Forms
- Sign PDF forms via interactive signature fields (not digital signatures)
- Fill out interactive PDF forms and sign them
- Apply business-related and sign here stamps via the Library
- Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the Library
- Sync Library items with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone via iCloud (Mac App Store version only)
- Use iCloud (Mac App Store version only), iCloud Drive or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone
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Reorder & Delete Pages — Merge PDFs
- Insert page numbers and specify positioning and format, including Roman numerals and Bates Numbering
- Insert and remove pages; re-order pages in a PDF by drag & drop; combine PDFs
- Export to Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx) format (requires Internet connection, must be licensed user)
- Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript and JavaScript Automation
- Save PDFs directly to Evernote
