Easy Annotate: A Very Good PDF App for Teachers

August 16, 2015
Easy Annotate is a very good side-by side PDF editor. It enables users to easily annotate and link two PDFs at the same time. Easy Annotate has become the most popular option for studying two documents simultaneously, with over 40.000 downloads.

Easy Annotate offers a wide variety of features that include: side by side viewing, editing and annotating of two PDFs, linking PDF documents to create complete study projects, full Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV support with auto-sync, full annotation support (highlight, underline, cross-out, draw, etc) and many more.

Here are some of the things you can do with Easy Annotate:

• Open two pdfs next to each other to review, compare, annotate, study or lookup references.
• Link documents to create references for easy lookup. 
• Highlight, underline, note, draw or squiggle - Annotate pdfs your way. You can even add sounds, signatures, stamps and images.
• Write down your thoughts and ideas with the EA Note feature.
• Open MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Apple Pages, Numbers and Keynote files with Easy Annotate and they’re automatically converted to PDF.
• Use the build-in web browser to read and compare websites. View webpages and PDF side-by-side. Simplified downloading of PDF and RTF files using just a single tap. Convert webpages to PDF.

The free version of Easy Annotate includes advertisements and does not add  Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV support.

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DocHub- A Powerful Google Drive Tool for Signing and Annotating PDFs and Docs

June 21, 2015
DocHub is anther excellent Google Drive tool for filling, editing, and signing PDFs. Compared with similar tools out there in Chrome web store, DocHub is way easier and simpler to handle. You can use it for a variety of purposes including: signing PDFs, highlighting text, inserting images, commenting and adding pages to PDFs and many more.

DocHub's signing features are really cool. You can easily sign and save any document. You can even import signature from phone and send documents to others to sign. DocHub is compatible with  all PDFs, Open Office and Microsoft Office Documents:  (PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, TXT, DOCX, PPTX and many more…).

As for the sharing options, DocHub allows you to email your documents or share them via social networking websites. You can choose whether you want your docs to be public or private. It also supports collaboration and lets you  collaborate with others on a doc.

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A Handy Google Drive Tool for Annotating PDFs

June 5, 2015
Notable PDF is a useful tool to use for viewing and annotating your PDFs.  Notable PDF works with Google Drive and is also accessible offline. You can use it to view PDF files on your browser. You can easily highlight text, add comments, underline or strikethrough text and instantly share your PDF files with your colleagues and collaborators.

Notable PDF also enables you to insert your own digital e-signature to your PDF files. It also supports freehand drawing and several other features. The free version of this app works great but has very limited features. However, Notable PDF does offer special prices for schools and education which start at $2/ user per year.

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Some Very Good Chrome Tools to Annotate and Edit PDFs

March 4, 2015
PDFs (portable document formats) are probably the most popular document format we use in our daily work as teachers and educators. As such, we deemed it important that we share with you this list of  some interesting tools to help you  do more with your PDF files.  These Chrome apps will allow you to edit, annotate, convert, view, fill forms and share PDFs. Some of these add-ons (such as the first two in this list) are also integrated with Google Drive.

1- DocHub

DocHub is a tool that you can use to perform a variety of tasks on your PDFs and documents. It lets you sign, edit and share your PDFs and docs. You can also use it to fill forms, merge documents and create templates.

2- Notable PDF

This is another popular app that allows you to both view and annotate your PDFs. Annotating features offered by this add-on include:  highlighting, underlining, strikethrough, posting comments and notes, add text and many more.It can also help you collaborate, gather feedback, and work with other people in real-time.

3- PDF Compressor

PDF Compressor is a very handy tool when it comes to reducing the size of your large PDF files.”The files you upload and generate on the site are deleted permanently from the server within one hour after the upload. “

4- Merge PDF

This is a very good app to use for combining multiple PDFs. The process is pretty simple, you either upload or drag and drop your files to the app’s interface and the upload will start right away. Once uploaded you then preview your pages, change their order or even delete whole pages. When done click generate and the app will automatically download the merged files to your Drive.

5- Image to PDF Converter

As its name indicate, this add-on lets you easily convert your images into PDFs. It works with different image formats and you can upload either a single image or multiple images.

6- Word to PDF

Word to PDF is another app by the same developer as the previous one. This add-on enables you to easily convert your document files into PDFs.

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