PDFgear
PDFgear is a PDF editor and reader for macOS that helps you view, edit, convert, sign, annotate, and organize PDF documents.
What is PDFgear?
PDFgear is a native PDF editor and reader for macOS designed for people who need to read, edit, convert, and manage PDF documents in one app. It helps students, office users, and general Mac users handle common document tasks such as changing text, adding annotations, filling forms, signing files, and rearranging pages. The app also includes OCR for turning scanned PDFs into selectable or editable text, which is useful for archived documents and image-based files. PDFgear supports PDF conversion workflows with formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, and images, and it offers batch processing for larger document jobs. It also includes AI-assisted PDF features for summarizing, translating, and extracting information from documents. PDFgear is published by Pdfeditor and is available for macOS as part of the broader PDFgear product lineup.
Key features
- Edit PDF text, images, and page content
- Annotate documents with highlights, comments, shapes, and markup
- Convert PDFs to and from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, and image formats
- Use OCR to extract text from scanned or image-based PDFs
- Fill forms and add signatures to PDF files
- Rearrange, rotate, insert, delete, and organize PDF pages
- Redact sensitive content before sharing documents
- Use AI tools to summarize, translate, and extract information from PDFs
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
PDFgear is a document utility whose requested file access is generally consistent with opening, editing, converting, and saving PDFs. If you use its AI features, document content may be processed through online services, so avoid sending confidential files unless you are comfortable with that workflow. Before relying on redaction for sensitive information, confirm the saved file no longer exposes the hidden text or graphics. The bundle ID com.pdfeditor.pdfeditormac matches the product naming used for PDFgear on Mac.
Recommendation: Keep PDFgear if you regularly edit, sign, convert, or OCR PDF files on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing it should only affect PDFgear-specific document workflows and any files or settings stored for the app.
Common paths
/Applications/PDFgear.app
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