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1. Pdf Expert Vs Pdfpen
2. Pdfpenpro Vs Pdf Expert Mac

PDF Expert Price: $59.99 for Mac; $9.99 for iOS, plus additional $9.99 Pro in-app purchase for PDF editing tools PDFelement (Android, iOS, Windows, Mac) To edit PDFs and add forms in an Office-like editor. PDFpen is a powerful Mac PDF editor: add text, images, and signatures to PDFs, make corrections, fill out PDF forms, OCR scanned pages. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents. And now, it's connected to the Adobe Document Cloud − making it easier than ever to work across computers and mobile devices.

Powerful PDF Editing On Your Mac
Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out forms. Proofread OCR text!

PDFpen v13 Now Available

Proofread OCR results

PDFpen does Optical Character Recognition (OCR): turn those pictures of scanned text into words you can use, then proofread them for accuracy.

Export in Word Format

Need some major changes to your PDF? Export your PDFs in .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! Sign with your secure and trusted digital signature. Scan in a signature and drop it into your PDF. 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 or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone. Reduce file sizes for sharing or archiving.

Pdf Expert Vs Pdfpen

Power over pages

Need a new page? Insert one. Need to remove a page? Delete it. Pages out of order? Just drag and drop to re-order. Even combine PDFs with drag and drop.

Features

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
• Preview and extract file attachments and annotations
• Record and playback audio annotations
• Add notes, comments, and cloud annotations
• Snap objects in place with guides
• Add page numbers, bookmarks, headers and footers, line numbers and watermarks

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 any Mac-compatible scanner
• Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document
• Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits
• Compress PDF documents for smaller file sizes

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

Sign & Fill Forms

• Validate digital signatures for authenticity and trust of digitally signed documents
• Digitally sign documents using AATL or create a self-signed certificate
• 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
• Use iCloud or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone

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
• Measure distances with the measurement tool, including scale within architectural documents
• Export to Microsoft^® Word (.doc, .docx) format (must be licensed user)
• Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript and JavaScript Automation
• Save PDFs directly to Evernote

“Its abilities compare well with Acrobat Pro, and yet PDFpen comes in at roughly a tenth of the cost.”

Go Pro

PDFpenPro has all of PDFpen’s features and more. Powerful form-building tools, more export options, control over permissions and tables of contents are just a few extras.

Powerful PDF Editing On Your Mac
Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out and create forms. Export to Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

PDFpenPro 13 Now Available

All-Purpose PDF Editing Tool

With PDFpenPro, you can add text and signatures, make corrections, OCR scanned docs and more, just like PDFpen. But PDFpenPro goes beyond, with more powerful features.

Make interactive PDF forms for both Mac and Windows

Make a scanned form come alive with PDFpenPro! Build interactive forms with text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, interactive signature fields and submit buttons!

Export in Excel, PowerPoint and PDF Archive Format

Export your PDFs not just in .docx format for the Microsoft® Word users in your life, but also .xlsx for Excel, .pptx for PowerPoint, and PDF/A for archival PDFs.

Put the Web in your PDFs

Whether it’s a single Web page or a whole site, make it into a PDF complete with clickable links.

Store PDFs in the Cloud

Now you can edit your PDFs wherever you are. Use iCloud or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.

Make a portfolio package of your PDFs

Have a collection of PDFs to manage? Create a portfolio to combine your PDFs into a single manageable package for easy sharing and distribution.

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
• Add, edit, preview and extract file attachments and annotations
• Record and playback audio annotations
• Add notes, comments, and cloud annotations
• Snap objects in place with guides
• Add page numbers, bookmarks, headers and footers, line numbers and watermarks

Scan & OCR — Preview Text

• Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents singly or in batch OCR
• Edit OCR text from your scanned pages
• Scan directly from Image Capture or any Mac-compatible scanner
• Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document
• Context-sensitive popup-menus enable quick edits
• Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript and JavaScript Automation
• Compress PDF documents for smaller file sizes

Redact Personal Information

• Redact or erase text, including OCR text
• Password protect a document with up to 256-bit AES encryption
• Edit document permissions to restrict saving, printing, copying, etc.
• 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

Sign & Fill Forms

• Validate digital signatures for authenticity and trust of digitally signed documents
• Digitally sign documents using AATL or create a self-signed certificate
• 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
• Use iCloud or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone

Pdfpenpro Vs Pdf Expert Mac

Auto-generate Fillable Form Fields

• Convert websites to multi-page PDFs, complete with hyperlinks
• Create and edit cross-platform fillable PDF forms
• Send documents for signature with DocuSign®
• Export PDFs to Microsoft^® Word (.docx) while offline, and to Microsoft^® Excel (.xlsx), Microsoft^® PowerPoint (.pptx), and PDF Archive (PDF/A) formats with an Internet connection
• Create form fields automatically in a non-interactive form
• Create and edit document Table of Contents
• Create Portfolio documents, combining related files together

“PDFpenPro is the crème de la crème of PDF editing and annotating applications.”