It offers a number of powerful and useful tools for marking up and editing your PDF documents on your iOS device. Version 1.7 of PDFpen for iPad and iPhone is a double-edged sword. While PDFpen offers excellent editing tools, it often mis-rendered pages, making them uneditable. I also found that if the text I was selecting was near the top of the document and therefore also near the toolbar, the iOS magnifying glass that shows where your cursor is displayed the text but did not show the cursor. On my 5S scrolling was never an issue, but sometimes pages within documents appeared as blank pages, even though the thumbnails showed that there was text. I had a number of issues with the iPad app, including incompletely rendered pages, pages out of focus, and stuttering or multi-second pauses when scrolling up or down on a page. While, overall, I am happy with the tools PDFpen offers for editing and marking up PDF documents, I am disappointed to report that I found both versions of the app to be rather buggy. And when working on sophisticated documents that include multiple columns or text boxes containing content unrelated to the text you’re editing, PDFpen often selected text across boundaries, making it impossible to make changes without affecting the unrelated text. This tool allows for minor edits of one or two words in a single line, but cannot be used to edit entire paragraphs. Choosing this option changes the entire line your cursor is on into an editable line of text. If the text in your document is editable, when you select a line of text you’ll see an option to Correct Text. If you’re using iCloud, any of the items you create and store in the Library will be available for use in other versions of PDFpen on other devices, including your Mac. In addition, you can create and store custom items, such as a signature, for later use. A Library tool provides a collection of pre-defined objects you can place on the page, options for inserting images from your photo library, and a standard collection of proofreading symbols. For example, if you’ve selected the freeform drawing tool, you can set the line style, width, and color. After you’ve selected the markup tool, an Info button allows you to change the way the markup tool will work on the page. Selecting the Markup tool allows you to highlight, squiggle, underline, and strikethrough text or draw free-form objects and annotations on the page. On the right are PDFpen’s markup, annotation, and setup tools.
On the left side are tools for undoing your last edit, displaying page thumbnails, and searching for text within the document. When a document is open, a title bar at the top offers access to a variety of document management and editing tools.
PDFpen recognizes and makes it easy to enter data into PDF forms. The apps also recognize documents that contain form fields and make entering data into those fields a snap. For example, a PDF file created from a scanned image without OCR won’t have text that can be selected, while PDFs created directly from word processing documents or for which the text has been recognized using an OCR program will have selectable text. Tapping any document opens it for editing in PDFpen, although the type of document you open will determine the editing features available to you within the app. Documents you create or import are stored using iCloud, but you also have the option of including other folders, such as a Dropbox folder, for syncing as well. Alternatively you can create new documents using one of three templates, from a photo stored in your photo library, or using items on your device’s clipboard. You can either import them directly from one several supported services, such as Dropbox, Evernote, Box, and Google Drive, or you can import documents using any app that supports iOS’s “Open in” feature. You can even combine PDFs using drag and drop.Importing documents into PDFpen is easy. Pages not in order? Drag and drop to reorder. Do you need to delete a page? You can delete it. Do you need a new page? You can insert one. You can edit PDFs seamlessly with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone using iCloud and Dropbox. You can now edit PDFs from anywhere you are. Signed, sealed, delivered: no fax, no fuss. You can also use a trackpad or mouse to sign your signature. You can scan your signature and then drop it into your PDF.
Sign PDFs from your Mac! Sign PDFs on your Mac with your digital signature. Select the text you wish to edit, then click "Correct Text" and save your PDF. Do you need to make major changes to your PDF? For easy PDF editing and sharing, export your PDFs to.docx format. This allows you to convert scanned text into words that you can use and then proofread them for accuracy. Proofread OCR text PDFpen does optical character recognition (OCR).