This Week's Sponsor:

Kolide

Ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta.


PDFpen suite [Sponsor]

Our thanks to Smile for sponsoring MacStories this week with the PDFpen family of products for iOS and OS X.

PDFpen isn’t just an app – it’s a family of powerful apps for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad that let you edit, sign, scan, and OCR your documents anywhere. On iOS, PDFpen for iPad allows you to sign contracts, make changes, and fill forms when you’re out of the office or on the go; all these features are also available on the iPhone’s smaller screen with PDFpen for iPhone, which comes with all the functionalities of the iPad version.

On the Mac, PDFpen can perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) so that pictures of text in your document will be turned into real text that you can use; with PDFpen Pro, the advanced version of PDFpen,  you have the ability to create a PDF form, build a table of contents, and convert HTML files to PDF. Recently, Smile added support for PDF stamps: you can browse a library of standard business stamps (e.g. Approved, Confidential, Sign Here) to quickly apply to your documents without complex editing required.

All versions of PDFpen for iOS and OS X can sync documents and changes using iCloud and Dropbox, and you can also exchange documents via Box, Evernote, Google, and other services. To easily get new documents into PDFpen for iOS, you can use the new PDFpen Scan+ app, a utility that lets you scan documents, articles, receipts, and more, using your iPhone or iPad camera with OCR and support for 16 languages.

PDFpen is a fantastic example of a suite of apps that work seamlessly across platforms and take advantage of each device’s unique features to augment the user experience. You can learn more about the PDFpen suite of apps here.