1- Notability
“Apple lists Notability as the best selling note taker of 2012! *** ON SALE 60% OFF ***
Notability powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way! Discover the freedom to capture ideas, share insights, and present information in one perfect place on iPad. “
“iAnnotate PDF’s intuitive interface and comprehensive, customizable set of features let you annotate, manage, and share documents from your iPad. People use iAnnotate PDF as their “go-to app” for taking notes on lecture slides, annotating important business documents, revising screenplays, grading papers, and much more. Read on for more of the great capabilities of iAnnotate PDF:“
3- Instaweb
“InstaWeb is a professional application where you can browse your favorite blog, magazine or article and create a PDF for later use. InstaWeb features a website clutter remover to create paper like PDFs. “
4- PDF Max Pro
“Much more for much less, pay once for all your devices, PDF Max designed for those people who’re looking for a full-featured PDF annotating, form-filling & note-taking app. PDF Max provides all features you need for an everyday PDF & note-taking app in one place so that you do not need to spend extra money for other apps.“
5- PDF Expert
“PDF Expert is the ultimate solution for all your PDF needs. It lets you read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes, draw with your finger and save these changes being compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat. Moreover, PDF Expert is the best iPad application that can fill PDF forms! “
“With PDFpen, use your iPad to sign a contract, make corrections, fill out an application, make comments on a presentation and much more. It’s the mobile app that doesn’t feel like you left the important features back at the office.
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7- PDF-notes
“Utilize pdf-notes to manage all the pdf files on your iPad. Fast display, quick page-turning even a thousand pages, useful finger-writing and email your notes to your friends.“
8- Remarks: Write Notes and Annotate PDFs
“Write down your thoughts, capture ideas and information, annotate documents and outline notes anywhere from university class to sofa at home.“
“We want to thank all our customers for a great year and we are happy to announce that thanks to our customers great feedback and suggestions, we have an amazing update ready that will be available on the App Store soon!“
10- PDF Forms
“PDF Forms is a powerful software tool for work with PDF documents and forms which allows commenting on ready PDF documents, filling forms, signing legal documents such as contracts or notices and sharing processed PDF documents via email, Google Drive or Dropbox or simply print via AirPrint.“
“PDF files can be opened in neu.Annotate from any application that supports the “Open with…” menu command. This includes Mail, Safari, Box, Dropbox and many others. PDF files can also be imported using iTunes File Sharing, Dropbox, and WebDAV services.“
12- PDF Highlighter
“You can highlight important passages, add text notes, freehand sketches, and even voice memos. All your annotations are saved directly to the PDF file, so that you can review them later on a Mac or PC, using standard software like Acrobat Reader or Mac OS X Preview.“
“DocAS lets you take note, sketch your ideas, annotate PDFs, convert other document format to PDF, do presentation, read documents, record your meetings and classes, and share your notes/documents on your iPad, All-in-One. “
14- Sign PDF Pro
“hy SignPDF Pro? Pro version include a sign panel, you can save your sign and paste your sign very easy, you don’t need to take more time to sign very documents/pages, just paste your sign immediately where you want.“
Desktop apps on Mac and Windows (sponsored addition)
If you are looking for a desktop app to work on your PDFs, PDFelement 6 is a good option. It is a handy application that empowers you with a collection of tools to edit and work on your PDFs the way you want. Some of the functionalities it provides include: the ability to edit your PDF forms, for instance you can change text font , adjust its size and style all without having to worry about loosing the original formatting properties. It also integrates OCR technology allowing you to digitize your documents and turn your scans into searchable PDFs. And with its enhanced data extraction features, PDFelement 6 enables you to pull out infomration from any PDF type including non-scanned ones. As for the annotating features, PDFelement 6 has this powerful PDF annotator which allows you to highlight, strikethrough, or underline portions of text, add comments, add stamps and signatures, and many more. Other new features that have been recently added include: navigating pages by keyboard, creating PDFs directly from scanners, and the ability to choose between ‘editable text’ or ‘searchable text image’ modes in OCR. PDFelement 6 is available for both Mac and Windows users. You can try it out using their free trial version, the regular version costs 59,95 for a single user license. If you are a students or educator, you can apply 40% off discount to buy it, check it now . You can download the free trial from this page.