Be a PDF Pro

A versatile, powerful PDF app won’t excite everyone. But if you spend a good chunk of your day working with PDFs, PDF Expert’s bevy of “I’ve always wanted that” options will dramatically improve your workflows.

Here are a few of the app’s especially slick features.

Editing the text or images of a PDF is usually a tedious process: Go back to the source document, make changes, then re-export. But PDF Expert lets you edit text, images, and links directly in the PDF. And, of course, you can rearrange, delete, and rotate pages with ease.

Pro tip: When you’re done tweaking, select File > Reduce File Size to choose the best balance between image quality and file size. Thanks to iCloud, all the changes you make sync across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

No need to painstakingly scroll through long documents to see annotations inline. PDF Expert gathers all your comments, highlights, underlines, and more in the app’s sidebar—and lets you quickly jump to one in the document. You can even export that list to HTML, text, or Markdown format for a handy reference.

PDF Expert also offers dozens of “stamps”—like Confidential, Draft, and Final—that you can add anywhere in your documents. And while most PDF apps have a redaction feature to black out text you don’t want others to see, PDF Expert’s Find And Redact feature blacks out all instances of sensitive text with one click.

Take your pick from multiple reading layouts, including split views that let you see two parts of the same document simultaneously. Use the handy sidebar to quickly navigate bookmarks and chapters. And choose among Day, Night, and Sepia modes for easier reading.

Scanned documents rarely look as good as the originals, but PDF Expert can help. The Enhance Scan feature uses AI to sharpen rough text; remove distortion, shadows, and stray lines; straighten pages; and enhance contrast. You can also convert color scans to black and white.

Some PDFs—especially those created from scans and images—don’t let you work with their text. Leveraging the Apple Vision framework, PDF Expert automatically performs optical character recognition on each PDF, so you can immediately search, copy, and edit its text.

When you need to use a PDF’s content in another format, PDF Expert can quickly convert a PDF to a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or text document—or even to a JPEG or PNG image. (It can also open files in these formats and convert them to PDFs!)

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