So what do you get for the price of admission, and most importantly, is it worth it?
Why Use UPDF?
That’s where premium apps like UPDF come in.
There are separate options for organizing, cropping, and accessing other page tools.
AnOCR (optical character recognition)button appears on the right side of the document.
OCR worked well enough on typed text but struggled heavily with handwriting.
UPDF
Pleasingly, this includes anative Apple Siliconversion (Intel users are included too).
This goes for changes made in other PDF editors, too; something Preview doesn’t do.
This solves one of our major grievances with Apple’s built-in tool.
Annotating a document with UPDF is a much more pleasant experience than using Preview.
you’re free to also add text boxes, much in the same way you’d add annotations.
Hold the “Option” button on your keyboard to superimpose a text box on top of another.
Apple Preview does this too.
The image would appear garbled and then disappear altogether.
We tried this with both JPG and PNG images and had similar results.
We also had issues trying to move or edit the source image in that particular document.
UPDF can also be used to add links to your document, either as visible or invisible rectangles.
This allows you to turn standard elements within your PDF into clickable links.
These links can point to a web address or a page within the PDF document.
Use the buttons above to insert, replace, and extract individual pages.
Adding to that are a host of background, watermark, and header (or footer) tools.
The same is true for backgrounds which include solid colors, source images, and custom text.
It’s also possible to adjust the margins so that the content of your PDF isn’t obscured.
These backgrounds, watermarks, and headers can be saved and applied to other documents in the future.
When it’s time to export your document, UPDF does some heavy lifting.
This is standard PDF stuff, and Preview does it all too.
UPDF makes it easy to share your document over the web using the Share dialog.
Your PDF will be displayed on a standard web page with no additional software required to view it.
The first time you do this, you’ll be asked to download a free plugin.
Should You Buy UPDF for Mac?
Whether UPDF is worth it depends on what you want to do.
As a more powerful suite of annotation and highlighting tools than those included in Preview, UPDF delivers.
I recommend using the free trial to test UPDF thoroughly before you buy.
