This powerful Mac app lets you finally edit PDFs

Navigating life in an office can feel like dodging traps in a video game, only much more boring: a seemingly bottomless pit of an email inbox, an agonizingly slow internet connection, and the final boss, uneditable PDFs.

PDFs are supposed to be your digital version of good, old-fashioned printed stuff: permanent and purposefully challenging to edit. Like ink stamped on paper, a PDF contains hard-coded text that isn’t meant to be changed — but where there’s a will, there’s a way. 

Introducing PDFpenPro — a top-rated, feature-rich, and Mac-compatible editor that lets you modify a PDF however you want. You can add signatures, insert images, correct typos, or even transform it into an interactive document. Who says a PDF can’t be flexible once you let it stretch its legs a little?

Unlike run-of-the-mill PDF editors swimming around the App Store, PDFpenPro has its own state-of-the-art technology called OCR, which stands for Optical Character Recognition. We’ll spare you the technical mumbo jumbo — OCR analyzes the encoded text and converts it into something your computer understands. That friendly convo between your computer and the PDF means you get a scannable and easily editable document.

And that’s just the tip of what PDFpenPro is capable of. An all-purpose editing tool, the app lets you mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring, and strikethrough, add additional text, photos, and signatures, and so much more. You can even export a summary of all your annotations to prep for meetings, or quick reference. Spread your wings and fly, sweet PDF. 

If you’re collaborating on the document with other people, you can also add notes or comments, as well as ramp up security. More specifically, you can redact or erase text so only the parts you want to be seen can be accessed when you share it, incorporate a password (which will then be protected by 256-bit AES encryption), and restrict saving, printing, and copying. When it comes to signatures, PDFpenPro also validates digital signings for authenticity. In short, that makes your PDF even safer than a paper copy. They don’t call it a “paper trail” for nothing.

Now, if your goal is to create fillable documents like forms and questionnaires, you can turn any file into interactive PDFs complete with text buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, submit buttons, and even interactive signature fields (think contracts).

Are you a Mac person? Then find out all about PDFpenPro’s bells and whistles here (yes, there are more). Best of all, you can try PDFpenPro for free by heading over to this link and download it on your Mac today.