PDFpen

PDFpen is an all-purpose PDF editor designed for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. According to the vendor, it offers a wide range of features that allow users to add signatures, text, and images, make corrections, perform OCR on scanned documents, fill out and sign forms, redact personal information, and more. The software is said to be suitable for businesses of all sizes and caters to various professions and industries including legal professionals, financial institutions, real estate agencies, education institutions, and healthcare organizations.

Key Features

Edit PDF Files with Ease: According to the vendor, PDFpen allows users to mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring, and strikethrough. They can add text, images, and signatures to PDF files and easily correct text using editable text blocks. Users can also manipulate images within the PDF, move, resize, copy, and delete them. Copying and pasting rich text from PDFs retains fonts and formatting, including columns. File attachments, annotations, audio annotations, notes, comments, and cloud annotations can all be added to PDF files. Objects can be snapped in place with guides, and users can add page numbers, bookmarks, headers, footers, line numbers, and watermarks to PDF files.

Scan & OCR — Preview Text: According to the vendor, PDFpen enables users to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned documents, allowing them to edit the OCR text. Scanning can be done directly from Image Capture or any Mac-compatible scanner. Users can adjust resolution, color depth, contrast, skew, and size of an image or scanned document. Context-sensitive popup menus enable quick edits, and PDF manipulations can be automated using AppleScript and JavaScript Automation. Additionally, PDF documents can be compressed for smaller file sizes.

Redact Personal Information: According to the vendor, PDFpen allows users to redact or erase text, including OCR text, from PDF files. They can also password protect documents with up to 256-bit AES encryption and edit document permissions to restrict saving, printing, copying, and more. The software offers full-screen mode, zoom options, and the ability to print notes, comments, and a list of all annotations along with the document.

Sign & Fill Forms: According to the vendor, PDFpen allows users to validate digital signatures for authenticity and trust of digitally signed documents. They can digitally sign documents using AATL (Adobe Approved Trust List) or create a self-signed certificate. Interactive PDF forms can be filled out and signed, and users can apply business-related and sign here stamps via the Library. Frequently-used images, signatures, objects, and text can be saved in the Library and synced with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone via iCloud. Seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone can be done using iCloud or Dropbox.

Auto-generate Fillable Form Fields: According to the vendor, PDFpen enables users to convert websites to multi-page PDFs with hyperlinks. They can create and edit cross-platform fillable PDF forms and export PDFs to various formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF Archive (PDF/A). The software also allows for automatic creation of form fields in non-interactive forms and the creation and editing of document Table of Contents. Additionally, users can create portfolio documents by combining related files together.