When it comes to reading PDF files on the iPad, you have many choices -- including Apple’s own iBooks, which doesn’t cost a dime. But if you frequently need to annotate documents, highlight text or make notes with your PDFs, the choices were quite limited, until now.
Readdle Inc., the company behind the popular ReaddleDocs app for the iPhone and iPad which is a veritable Swiss Army knife for document reading, has unleashed another high-power app into the App Store with PDF Expert for iPad. The $4.99 app allows you to make short work of many PDF document editing tasks which are otherwise impossible on Apple’s tablet.
PDF Expert makes short work of highlighting text, creating notes, drawing with your finger to make handwritten notes or highlighting text in scanned documents, saving bookmarks as well as the ability to underline or strike-through words. Best of all, PDF Expert for iPad does all of this and saves your PDF, completely compatible with desktop applications such as Preview and Adobe Acrobat. Document password protection is also available.
Readdle has gone to great lengths to make it easy to load PDF files into the iPad-only app as well. In addition to reading files from desktop computers (either via USB with iTunes or wirelessly via Wi-Fi) but also via e-mail attachments, Dropbox, Mobile Me iDisk, GoogleDocs or even other iPad applications. You also have the ability to share your annotated document with friends via e-mail.
All of this PDF editing goodness is a veritable bargain at only $4.99 for PDF Expert for iPad, which is a 6.4MB download now available from the App Store. It’s compatible with the iPad only and requires iOS 3.2 or later, and the company promises more PDF editing abilities with future updates.
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