The PDF is one of the most universal formats for documents and images, on both Mac and PC. You can convert pictures and documents to PDFs so that they can be shared and opened looking exactly the same ...

The search function in Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to locate words or phrases while working with PDF documents, even if it has been converted to PDF using character recognition technology (OCR).

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Mar. 2014 and the video tutorial for this article published Dec. 2018; while this program might look a little different, the steps shown in this ...

PDFs are notoriously difficult to edit. Have you ever found yourself going to an online converter just to sign and date a document? Yeah, it’s frustrating. This is to ensure the integrity of the ...

There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's just a ...

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I cannot tell you how many times I've received a PDF document with the expectation that I'm going to either use the text to create something new or to edit the copy. That's all fine and good when I'm ...