Paying for Adobe Acrobat month after month can feel like a necessary evil if you work with PDFs, but it doesn’t have to be.

You can purchase lifetime access to this all-in-one PDF app for $49.99. Edit, read, and create PDFs in one app UPDF Pro can make working with PDFs easier.

There is one last feature that makes third-party PDF apps useful and that's their ability to use OCR. If you open a regular PDF in Preview, then you can usually select the text and copy it out.

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