PDFelement - Edit, Annotate, Fill and Sign PDF Documents
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Apple introduced macOS, which will be the flagship operating system across all Mac devices, including the iMac and MacBook. For Mac users, this obviously presents questions about the applicability of software for earlier versions of OS X. And if you regularly edit your PDF documents on your Mac and are worried about getting compatible applications for the job, help is already here. Editing scanned PDF on this newly-released OS can be more difficult. This article will tell you how to edit scanned PDF on macOS Sierra.
Apart from premium PDF editors such as Adobe Acrobat, only a few PDF tools support the newest version of macOS. Wondershare PDFelement for Mac is one of the few options out there that offers superb support and a simple, multi-feature interface for users to manipulate their documents. It provides the perfect mix of simple and advanced features to suit a wide variety of users and functions. One of the key features of PDFelement is its OCR tool, which uses special algorithms to extract content from scanned PDF files that would otherwise not be editable on word processors.
PDFelement offers a useful tool for editing text, images, and the format of PDF documents. You can add or remove content or complete pages from PDF documents and merge, split, or extract pages to create separate PDF documents. You can also add different types of annotations, including stamps, notes, textboxes, and highlight to your text. If you need to protect your documents PDFelement enables you to add editing restrictions, passwords, redaction, digital signatures, and watermarks to ensure your document is safe from unauthorized access.
It is fairly simple to use on PDFelement because the application can automatically detect and read scanned documents, which allows you to edit them. In the following guide, we show you how you can use PDFelement to edit your scanned documents on macOS Sierra.
Once you have downloaded the application, install it and launch the program by double-clicking on the icon on the desktop. To import your PDF file, click "Open File", navigate through your Mac’s storage, click on the scanned PDF, and click "Open".
PDFelement will automatically detect if it is a scanned file and prompt you to activate OCR. Click the "Perform OCR" button on the top yellow notification bar. You can also activate OCR by clicking the small "OCR" button at the top right corner of the PDFelement window. Once OCR is activated, there are no limits to the editing features you can use. PDFelement's OCR features supports over 20 languages so you shouldn't worry if the text isn't in English.
Once the content has been lifted, click the "Edit" button along the menu bar to begin editing. You can add, delete, or extract images and text from scanned PDFs using this method. You can also perform other tasks including cropping, rotating, and replacing PDF pages from the document just as you would on a regular PDF file.
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