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Our thanks goes out to Smile this week for sponsoring MacStories with PDFpen 6.

PDFpen offers an affordable alternative for marking up, editing, and adding images to PDF documents. Available across Mac and iOS, PDFpen goes anywhere you do, giving you the capability to correct typos, add your signatures, and re-order pages on the fly. Because PDFpen uses OCR (optical character recognition) on PDFs and scanned documents, text is digitized so you can edit text and search the entire document for a particular keyword or phrase.

PDFpen 6 for the Mac supports Retina displays, and comes equipped with a powerful toolbar for getting things done faster than before. And for use in the office, you can export documents to a Microsoft Word document. Best of all, PDFpen 6 will auto save as you annotate or edit your PDFs, meaning you’ll never lose your progress if you have leave for a quick meeting.

PDFpen 6 is only $59.95 on the Smile Store and the Mac App Store. You can learn more and download a free trial here.

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