PDFelement-PDF Editor & Reader

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About this app

PDF Scanner, OCR & PDF Converter

Turn paper documents and PDF files into searchable, editable content with PDFelement. Scan documents with OCR, enhance scanned PDFs, convert PDF to Word or Excel, edit PDF text, fill and sign forms, compress files, and manage documents—all from your phone.

From receipts and invoices to forms, bank statements, reports, and books, PDFelement combines a powerful PDF scanner, OCR scanner, PDF converter, and PDF editor in one app.

Scan Documents to PDF
Digitize paper documents quickly with an intelligent PDF scanner.
• Smart PDF Scanner: Scan receipts, invoices, IDs, forms, books, notes, and other paper documents.
• Automatically detect document edges and correct perspective for cleaner scans.
• Create clear PDF documents directly from your phone.

OCR & Enhance Scanned PDFs
Make scanned and imported documents easier to read, search, and edit.
• PDF OCR: Extract searchable and editable text from scanned PDFs and images.
• Enhance Scanned PDFs: Automatically straighten pages, sharpen text, adjust brightness, and clean up backgrounds.
• Improve both newly scanned documents and existing imported PDFs.

Turn stacks of receipts, forms, reports, and other paper files into organized digital documents without manually retyping their content.

PDF Converter
Convert PDFs into editable formats for work, study, and everyday tasks.
• PDF to Word: Convert PDF documents into editable Word files.
• PDF to Excel: Convert bank statements, invoices, tables, and reports into editable spreadsheets.
• PDF to PPT: Turn PDF content into PowerPoint files.
• PDF to Images: Export PDF pages as images.
• Convert to PDF: Create PDF files from Office documents and images.

Edit PDF
Make changes directly without recreating your document.
• Edit PDF text, images, and layouts.
• Adjust fonts, spacing, alignment, and formatting.
• Custom Fonts: Import TTF and OTF fonts to preserve original formatting when editing PDFs.

AI PDF Tools
Understand and work with PDF content more efficiently.
• Chat with PDF: Ask questions about documents and receive instant AI answers.
• AI PDF Summarizer: Summarize lengthy PDFs into clear key points.
• AI PDF Translator: Translate PDFs and selected text across 60+ languages.
• PDF to Mind Map: Visualize PDF content as structured mind maps.
• AI Record: Record and transcribe voice notes for smarter document workflows.

Fill & Sign PDF
Complete paperwork without printing documents.
• Fill PDF Forms directly on your phone.
• Sign PDF files with digital signatures.
• Add custom stamps to forms and documents.

Merge, Compress & Organize PDFs
Keep PDF files organized and ready to share.
• Merge PDF files such as forms, receipts, declarations, and supporting documents.
• Compress PDF files to reduce size while maintaining quality.
• Reorder, rotate, add, or delete PDF pages.

PDF Reader & Annotation
Read and review documents wherever you work.
• Use Liquid Mode for a comfortable reading experience.
• Bookmark important PDF pages and use Read Aloud for hands-free listening.
• Highlight text, add comments and notes, and measure PDF content.

Protect & Share PDFs
• Protect confidential PDF documents with passwords.
• Store files with PDFelement Cloud.
• Share PDFs when you need to collaborate or send documents.

PDF Templates
Explore customizable templates for resumes, invoices, planners, business documents, and more.

Whether you need to scan documents, recognize text with OCR, convert PDF files, edit PDFs, fill and sign forms, or use AI to understand documents, PDFelement helps simplify your everyday document workflow.
PDF Editor & AI Scanner: OCR, Convert, Sign, Compress, Merge & Chat PDFs
Updated on
Sep 24, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location and Device or other IDs
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 4 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

31.6K reviews
Eric Hahn
August 25, 2026
The app works well but the service feels like a bait and switch. In 2020, I originally purchased an unlimited use lifetime license. Since then, I found out that they have been billing me an additional $79 a year. When I look on my account it shows 2 subscriptions: one lifetime subscription and one paid subscription. I never signed up for an additional paid subscription. Once again, I am trying to use services and it's forcing me to upgrade. This happens frequently. Company feels like a scam.
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Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd.
August 25, 2026
Dear user, we are sorry for the bad experience you have experienced. Our products are currently continuously supplementing and improving various functions to meet the needs of more users. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to you and thank you.
seborojo
December 17, 2025
Excellent app. Versatile and easy to use but I need to edit my recent review because after the Pro mode expired and switched to the free version, a series of watermarks appeared throughout the document, making it completely inconvenient to read. It's perfectly acceptable for the free version to have usage limitations, but if these limitations go beyond what's comfortable for the reader, they become annoying. Under these conditions, it's impossible to share information properly. Thank you.
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Wondershare Technology (Hunan) Co.,Ltd.
December 18, 2025
Thank you for your feedback. We provide a free trial, allowing users to explore and experience the app before making a purchase. However, it does include a watermark on the completed files or a usage limit. If you wish to save files without a watermark, upgrading to the premium version will unlock membership benefits.
April Rogge
June 29, 2025
I use PDFelement on my desktop and would not recommend any other app for anyone working with PDF frequently. It's the best one I have found, you edit, sign, create, search, and so much more with this app. I have been using it for over 5 years. I use the mobile app version mainly for viewing, so I can't speak on what the mobile version does, but it looks to have most if not all the same features as the desktop version. I have the yearly Pro plan, so I'm not sure what the free plan comes with.
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What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.
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About the developer
万兴科技(湖南)有限公司
wondersharehnwx@gmail.com
中国 湖南省长沙市 高新开发区尖山路39号长沙中电软件园有限公司总部大楼902室 邮政编码: 410000
+86 166 2517 5368

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