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PDFelement has won G2 Best Software Awards 2024 - Top 50 Office Products, received ISO 27001-Information Security Management certification, and is a recognized member of the PDF Association.
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Digitize paper files on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and PDFelement Cloud - Create, edit, print, read, and eSign PDF documents.
- 1-Year Plan of PDFelement for Windows and Mac.
- 1-Year Plan of PDFelement for iOS, Android, and PDFelement Could.
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Protect PDF file in 3 easy steps.
FAQs about PDF protector.
If the password is added by PDFelement, you can open the file with the program and go to Protect > Set Password. Then you can uncheck the password to remove it. Read how to take password off PDF.
Both Windows and Mac allow you to make a PDF read-only. On Windows device, right-click a PDF and click Properties > Read-only > OK. Then the PDF file will become read-only. On a Mac computer, you can do that by selecting the PDF, clicking File > Get Info and making permissions changes under the Sharing & Permissions tab. Also, you use a PDF editor like PDFelement, which not only can set a PDF to read-only mode, but also can protect a PDF with access and print restrictions. With PDFelement, you can just go to Protect > Set Password and select Permission Password. Choose the option "No change allowed on this file".
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Redact information in PDF legal documents
earch and black out Social Security numbers, names of minor children, dates of birth, etc. before sending documents to court. Saves me a lot of time.
-- Robert, Lawyer
Prevent from editing signed contracts
I love the encryption tool of PDFelement. I can make sure that signed PDF contracts won't be printed or copied before distribution.
-- Mr. Johnson, businessman
Make resume read-only
I can easily convert my Microsoft Word resume to a beautiful PDF. And also make it read-only to prevent any changes.
-- Naomi, designer