PDFgear User Guide

Intro to PDFgear

PDFgear for Mac is a lightweight but powerful PDF editor made for macOS. It gives you a full set of tools for free, with no watermarks or limits.

Key Highlights

Introduction to Key Features of PDFgear
  • AI-Powered PDF Chat Assistant

Talk to your PDFs with the built-in AI assistant. Ask it to summarize, extract, translate, or edit, and it will do the work for you.

  • Full Editing Capability

Edit text, images, links, and form fields in a PDF as easily as you edit a Word file.

  • Annotation and Markup

Highlight, underline, or strike through text. Add shapes, notes, stamps, and more.

  • Page Organization

Merge, split, crop, extract, rotate, delete, or insert pages with ease.

  • Convert Files

Convert PDFs to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, and image formats. PDFgear supports over 10 conversions while keeping the original layout.

  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Turn scanned PDFs into editable and searchable files. You can also extract text from them with high accuracy.

  • PDF Form Filling

Build forms with checkboxes, text boxes, buttons, drop-down lists, and more.

  • Create Signature

Add a signature to your PDF by typing, drawing on the trackpad, or uploading an image.

  • Compress PDFs

Shrink PDF file size with different compression levels while keeping sharp quality.