That's fine and quick enough when you know the keystroke but the text captured for the entry may not be complete or right.įor instance, when we selected the title Arrival from that film's PDF screenplay, PDFpenPro 9 saved it in the Table of Contents as 'Arrival6'. Select the text and choose Add Entry via the Table of Contents sidebar or keystroke.

You use it by selecting that word or whatever after the document has been OCRd. However, while it lets you build up a quick way to jump around the document, it's not very satisfactory. You can't edit it in that sidebar but you can double-click to open the annotation in place and make changes there.īoth versions of the app let you highlight a word or sentence or title in your PDF and mark that as a contents entry to build up the Table of Contents. There's an annotations sidebar that shows the start of each note or text comment and you can also see the text there. If you add a note to a PDF page, it shows as a speech bubble and now hovering over that will show you the text of your note. Whether you're editing a PDF for other people or marking up one for yourself, there are now improved options for adding annotations. There's little to stop them then running it through PDFpen themselves and OCRing it all over again, but most recipients don't know you can do this. So now you can switch off what's called the OCR layer and they get a regular PDF instead.

You want that, but often you don't want your recipients to be able to alter the text. PDFpen will perform optical character recognition on a document for you and that lets you do all sorts of things from making a Table of Contents to doing searches and edits on the text. Nicely, it also now lets you take away a feature. It gives you extra ways to export your PDF before sending it to someone so that now you can also just email them a JPEG image to read, for instance. This new release of PDFpen 9 and PDFpenPro 9 for Mac adds to all of these features.

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