PDFelement is a one-stop PDF solution powered by AI. Fast, affordable, and easy way to edit, convert, sign PDFs, and more Using PDFelement, you will become a real PDF expert.
BUILT FOR macOS
• Continuity Camera - Scan or capture on iPhone/iPad, instantly on your Mac.
• Continuity Sketch - Draw on iPhone/iPad and insert directly into your PDF.
• Widgets, Spotlight & Shortcuts - Launch PDF tools instantly, right from macOS.
AI TOOLS
• Chat with PDFs and switch between powerful AI models.
• Polish your PDFs with Grammar check, rewrite, or translate.
• Summarize PDFs instantly with AI Knowledge Cards.
• Turn PDFs into notes, mind maps, or presentations.
EDIT PDF WITH EASE
• Add text, images, and shapes to PDFs for more organized editing.
• Change sizes, colors, and font styles of the text and link.
• Insert links and add watermarks to your document.
CONVERT PDF
• Export to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML, RTF, or images.
• Create high-quality PDFs from documents, images, or web pages.
• Boost your workflow by batch converting PDFs into multiple file formats.
OCR PDF
• Recognize text from scanned PDFs and images.
• OCR PDFs to Word and editable/searchable PDFs in 27 languages.
• Batch OCR PDFs/scanned images into text within seconds.
ANNOTATE PDF
• Highlight, underline, strikethrough, or add shapes to your PDFs.
• Enhance annotations with custom stamps, colorful stickers.
• Measure lengths, areas, and perimeters directly on PDF drawings in seconds.
ORGANIZE PDF
• Merge, split, or rotate PDF pages to suit your needs.
• Compress PDF to reduce its file size for optimized storage and sharing.
• Extract PDF pages for focused content management.
PROTECT PDF
• Password-protect PDFs to restrict viewing, printing, or editing with ease.
• Select areas or search terms to instantly black out all matching text.
• Smart Redact your PDF – automatically detect and redact sensitive data.
FILL & SIGN
• Recognize and fill in PDF form for efficient data entry.
• Create a fillable PDF with text fields, checkboxes, combo boxes, images, and more.
• Sign PDF on the go and sync your signatures on any device with PDFelement Cloud.
• Create e-signable PDFs and send them in bulk to recipients for convenient signing across devices.
CONTACT US
Email: support@wondershare.com
Support Center: https://www.wondershare.com/company/contact-us.html
Website: https://pdf.wondershare.com/pdfelement-mac.html
Facebook: @PDFelement
Terms of Use: https://pdf.wondershare.cn/privacy.html
EULA: https://pdf.wondershare.cn/end-user-license-agreement.html
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A Cute and useful tool.
Manawalk8r
I find this app very useful when wanting to edit a document in a PDF format. I can edit the text, use nifty tools, and mark up the document with little side notes. Although some downsides make the app a bit confusing a first, they are pretty trivial. For example, the ORC text recognition tool took about 2-3 minutes to load/read the document (which is most likely due to the amount of text the tool has to recognize). Another trivial problem was that when I was inserting text into the document, I noticed I wasn’t able to click the font type, located at the very top of the page until I clicked the T+ icon. It took me like 5 clicks on the font toolbar to recognize this solution. Also, a popup appeared every time I used an application on the left side-bar that promoted becoming a premium member. I found this a tad annoying. Other than the things I stated, I loved the app; it came in handy.
Solves my modern PDF verson ancient but lasts forever HP 1320 printer problem
Spectrum Technology
I love my HP 1320 printer because it is incredably durable. 500,000 pages amd still working as good as new. Except when certain PDFs are printed, and the printer criver demands that the printer do something that it can't do, such as "set color space". then the printer stalls. This program can deal with this and several other problems; if necessary, this program will print incompatable pages (necessarily slowly (such as those with certain graphs and images) as bit maps. My problems are solved. I haven't tested its PDF editing abilities because I don't need that capability. Yes, this program is smart enough to print non-offending pages as fast as Preview, and automatically does what is necessary to enable my oldie but goodie HP 1320 to print all the previous no-nos. I wish that I could buy a permanant license (as I did for Adobe Photosho CS6) rather than subscribe, because I will NOT subscribe to software. Just call me an old fogey... Hey, I learned to program an IGM 650 in assembly language in 1958 at the tender age of 14, and was writing AI software in LISP in 1960 on a vacuum tube IBM 709 in 1960. Yep, I'm an old fogey.
Limited Abilty to MAKE Fillable Forms
cdinca
I needed a make a fillable PDF for an organization as a volunteer so I didn't want to spend a ton of money. I bought the Pro version for 3 months ($30 - on my computer only, their website does not recognize me). I have been able to make a very basic fillable form for my organization. However, the program pretends that it can make the form limit chosen text fields to certain contstraints like "phone number" or even just number. But it doesn't work outside of its own app. Letters can go in "number only" fields, etc. Also it pretends that it can do simple calculations like adding and multiplying which would have been very helpful. Again, it only works in its own app, not when the pdf is shared online which is the whole point. Same with buttons... These shouldn't even be options if they don't really work!So, YES, it did help me make a fillable form and I am happy about that. But I wasted time trying to make the extra features work that would have made the whole experience for people using the form much better. Very frustrating. I could have done just that with a $5 program that I also bought.
Developer Response
Hi, we want to sincerely apologize for your bad experience with PDFelement. However, we'd like to learn more about your situation and what exactly happened. We want to make things right. Please email us at customer_service@wondershare.com, and we will get back to you promptly. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Expensive, Inconsistent Performance
Reaver Dirge
As a full-time PhD student, I frequently need to scan, do OCR, and convert documents to Word. I was excited to find a program that claimed to be good at all of these functions, and I was willing to pay a decent amount of money for it. However, after using it extensively, I've found that it falls short of my expectations. One of the main problems is with the OCR function. It often fails to recognize a substantial portion of the content, which is frustrating because I need accurate text recognition for my research. And even when it does recognize the text, the conversion to Word is usually subpar. Instead of actually translating the text in the PDF to the Word format, it just loads the PDF as images into a Word document. This is not what I need at all, and it makes it difficult to edit the document or use it for further research. Overall, I'm pretty disappointed with this product. I feel like I've wasted my money on something that doesn't live up to its promises. As a student, I don't have a lot of extra money to spend on software, so it's especially frustrating when I invest in something that turns out to be a letdown.
Developer Response
Hi Reaver Dirge, we want to sincerely apologize for your bad experience with PDFelement. Please send us your original file and the screen recording at https://support.wondershare.com/, and we will further check for you and get back to you promptly. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Added support for batch drag-and-drop import in Receipt Assistant.
Added sample files and detailed tutorials in Receipt Assistant.
Added support for importing files using Continuity Camera into Receipt Assistant, and for Insert or Replace Pages.
Added support for Merge Pages.
Improved page zoom experience.
Improved apply redaction experience.
Fixed some known issues to improve overall reliability.
Version 12.1.13
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Information
Seller
Wondershare Technology Group Co.,LTD
Size
639.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
