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While the PDF file format is a great tool for sharing documents, sometimes you need to use the text. Here are two ways to get text out of a PDF and into your word processor.

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Apple's Preview application, which comes pre-installed on your Mac, is a useful tool for viewing images and PDFs, with some added functionality for making basic edits. Although the editing features are not as robust as those found in paid applications such as Adobe Acrobat, Preview will allow you to make additions like adding text, highlighting text or overlaying shapes in different colors to call attention to specific areas of a PDF. All of these features are integrated into the application's tool menu, making tasks such as adding text quick and straightforward.

Open Preview by clicking on the Preview icon in your Mac doc or selecting the application in the Finder.

Click 'Open' from the File menu and select the PDF to which you want to add text.

Select 'Text Tool' from the Tools menu and click on the area of the PDF where you want to add text. A text box appears.

Type the desired text into the text box and save your changes.

Tips

• Preview allows you to select different fonts and colors for the text entered into a PDF, a useful tool to make your text stand out from different PDF backgrounds. A font panel and color menu are included in the options that appear when you click on 'Annotate' in the toolbar. Simply select your text and make the desired changes.
• Preview also includes a text note program for adding dialog boxes with comments over a specific part of a PDF. You can find this feature by clicking on 'Annotate' in the toolbar, along with other options for highlighting, underlining and marking up text with different shapes.
• This process refers to Preview for OS X Lion. OS X Tiger includes similar tools, while OS X Snow Leopard limits the options to the text note feature.

Warning

• Some PDF forms, depending on the viewing privileges assigned, may be printable but not editable in Preview.

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Do you have a PDF document on your Mac that is incomplete and you need to add more information to? PDFs can be difficult to edit once all data has been entered and without the right tool, it seems nearly impossible to add text to PDF on Mac. No worries, in this article, we are going to share with you how to add text to PDF on Mac with PDFelement .

Steps for Adding Text to PDF on Mac

With PDFelement, you can think Mac add text to PDF is very easy. The first thing you need to do is download and install PDFelement to your computer and when you're ready, follow these very simple steps to add text anywhere on the PDF document.

Step 1. Click 'Text' > 'Add Text'

The first step is to open the PDF document. Doing that is very easy. Just click 'Open File' in the main window. You can then browse for the file you would like to open.

Once the document is open, click on the 'Text' button and then select the option 'Add Text'.

Step 2. Add Text to PDF on Mac

Now click on the area within the document you would like to add text and a blue box will appear where you can begin adding your text to PDF on Mac

Step 3. Set Preference to the Adding Text

If you want to you can select the font, size, layout and color of the text to match the rest of the document. Simply select the text you've just added and from the right, select your preferred formatting.

How to Add Text Box to PDF on Mac for Annotation

If instead you would like to add an annotation like a comment on to the PDF document as a way to give the document owner some feedback, PDFelement allows you to do that as well. Follow these simple steps to do it.

Step 1: On the main menu in the blue area on the left of the document, select 'Markup' and then select 'Text Box' from the resultant menu.

Step 2: Click within the document where you would like the text box to appear and then go ahead and click inside the box to enter the text.

How to Add Text Fields to PDF Forms on Mac

How To Add Text To A Pdf On Macbook

If the PDF document you are working on is a form, PDFelement can also come in quite handy in helping you edit both the fields and the text on the PDF form. Here's how to add text fields to PDF document for instance.

Step 1: Once the PDF document is open, click on 'Form' in the main menu on left and then click on the 'Text Field' button from the resultant menu.

Step 2: On the form, click on the location you would like to add a new text field and the text field will be added. You can edit is accordingly.

While there are many out there that will allow you to minimally edit your PDF document online or from your Mac, only PDFelement is specifically designed to work on your Mac no matter the version of Mac OS you are running. The following are just some of the features that you'll get once you begin using it.

• Adding text to PDF on Mac is as easy as just typing in the text
• You can also use it to annotate and edit PDF documents
• It will also come in handy when you need to sign PDF contracts
• It can also be used to create and fill forms
• It is fully compatible with all versions of macOS including 10.14 Mojave

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