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What PDF Opus will do.

Edit, redact, OCR, convert, fill, sign and organize. The PDF engine is built and tested; the Mac app around it is in development and not available yet. The images are design previews.

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Redact

Redact for real. Gone means gone.

Text, images and drawings under the marks are removed from the file, and matching metadata is scrubbed. For hidden layers and all metadata, use Remove Hidden Data.

Design preview of PDF Opus redaction: a lease agreement with black bars over names and amounts, and a panel listing what gets removed from the file.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Edit

Edit text like a document.

Fix a typo or swap an image right on the page, matching the original font where it can.

Design preview: PDF Opus editing a line of an invoice in place, with the font panel showing the original font matched.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Annotate

Mark it up. Make it yours.

Highlights, notes and ink that feel at home on macOS.

Design preview: a research paper in PDF Opus with yellow and green highlights, a blue pen circle and a handwritten note, next to the pen panel.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Scan & OCR

Paper becomes text.

OCR with Apple’s Vision framework, on your Mac, adds searchable and selectable text to scans.

Design preview: a scanned letter being recognised in PDF Opus, with recognised lines highlighted and a progress ring at 62 percent.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Convert

Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Both ways.

Export to Office and turn Office files back into PDFs, on your Mac.

Design preview: the PDF Opus convert sheet with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image, text, web page, Markdown and archive formats.
  • DOCX
  • XLSX
  • PPTX
  • PNG

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Fill & Sign

Fill it. Sign it. Done.

Fill in PDF forms and add a drawn or imported signature without printing a page.

Design preview: a rental application form filled in PDF Opus, with a drawn signature and the signature panel showing saved signatures.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Pages

Pages in order. In a flash.

Drag to reorder. Merge, split and compare versions.

Design preview: the PDF Opus page organizer with ten page thumbnails, one page lifted mid-drag.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Compress

Smaller. Your call.

Pick a preset, see the estimated size, compare before and after, then save. Results depend on the file.

Design preview: the PDF Opus compress panel with a before and after slider over a report page. The sizes shown are sample values.

Design preview, not the running app. PDF Opus is in development.

Every tool. One app.

Eight families of tools, built in our PDF engine. The app around them is in development, and the final tool list is set before launch.

  • Annotate

    • Highlight, underline, strike
    • Pen, shapes and arrows
    • Notes and stamps
    • Measure distance and area

  • Edit

    • Edit text, matching the original font
    • Add, replace and crop images
    • Links
    • Watermarks, headers and footers

  • Redact

    • Mark text or areas
    • Search and redact every match
    • Matching metadata scrubbed
    • Remove hidden data

  • Convert

    • PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint
    • Word, Excel, PowerPoint to PDF
    • Images, HTML, Markdown, text
    • PDF/A-2b for archiving

  • Fill & Sign

    • Fill PDF forms
    • Create form fields
    • Flatten forms
    • Draw or import a signature

  • Pages

    • Reorder, rotate, delete
    • Merge and split
    • Page numbers and Bates
    • Compare two versions

  • Scan & OCR

    • Searchable PDF from scans
    • Selectable, copyable text
    • Runs on this Mac

  • Compress & Lock

    • Compress with before and after
    • AES-256 password
    • Unlock with your password

Private

Yours alone.

Documents are processed on your device and no account is needed. The app only goes online for licence checks, updates and purchases.

  • Our own PDF engine

    Written from scratch for PDF Opus, with no networking in the engine. No cloud service touches your files.

  • Recognition on this Mac

    OCR runs on device with Apple's Vision framework.

  • Password protection

    Lock a PDF with AES-256. Removing a password needs the correct password.

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System requirementsmacOS 14 Sonoma or later (planned minimum).