Google Drive - Edit and Sign PDF Documents

hi there Jamie Keat here tonight at teachers Tech hope everyone's having a great night tonight I want to do a quick little video about uh using PDFs in your Google drive and how to make them editable so one thing I really hate is uh when I have a PDF file and I have to uh whether or not print it off write out write on it then scan it again and then send it to someone I'm going to show you an app you can add to Google Drive that will allow you to fill out this PDF uh even put your signature on it and then email it or share it in a number of different ways so stay tuned as I go through this little quick video on dock Hub with Google Drive so I'm in just one of my uh Google doc accounts that I have here and you can see it's pretty empty this one I just got the one document a example PDF that I created in Google Docs I just saved it as a PDF to show you in this example so I'm going to go ahead and just double click on this one it opens up and I have a few options up top here you can see the open width uh right now I don't have do Hub installed but I wanted to show you how to do that uh by connect more apps here and I'll also show you at the end how to uh take it off if you don't want it in your Google Drive uh so just go ahead and type uh doc Hub in here and it'll be the first one that comes up and I'm just going to hit connect here uh so doc Hub is free uh for I believe it's five documents per month so if you're using it more than that then there's a subscription you might want to look at if you're using it quite a bit uh I'm just using the free version in this one uh so you can see

now I have an option here open with Doc Hub here I'm just going to go ahead and click on that and it's going to uh open up doc Hub here and it's just going to go through your basic thing connecting with Google drive and I'm just going to allow it to connect with my uh account here and then it's going to open up it's going to say create a duplicate because I already opened this one up uh prior and that's why I did that one too so uh in this case here just got a few basic things that I put down on it so uh if I was going to write something on it what I do with this one I go up to my text

tool and then I click it and I can draw a text box so if I was putting my name on this now uh I can simply click on this box here so if I click on it you can see now I can drag this all around and line it up to where I want to and it uh you can get it pretty exact on it so that's what I like about this one uh you can change your uh size of your font um also if you needed it to be a bit smaller you can always adjust it through there you can adjust your uh color on it and alignment and your bold um on all those options too uh so some of the

other options that um I like that it has on it if I go over to this uh stamp tool here if there was a need for a check box or something or an x uh you can see if I click the check mark I could put a check here but if I drop down it gives me a few more options here um maybe I'll just put the I'll use the I'll put a star this one and there and I do have the option of changing colors on these things too uh you can see that if I needed to uh do a white out tool I could a comment tool to add on to it I could highlight if there was something if there was any text um that I could put around on it by simply uh clicking on the X uh you can see when the Box comes up it does take uh the things away too another thing I like

about this is the sign tool so if I click sign here uh you can see I kind of had a this is just a font signature that I'd already had in here before but if I wanted to create a signature um I have some option where I can bring it in uh from my phone if I was drawing on there I could draw it out um on here I could upload an image if that would work better for you maybe you draw you write it down on a pen and then you uh then you take it you take a snapshot of it and bring it and you can choose your file and bring it through here uh or you could just use the type and that was the one example that I just showed you um on that first one before and then

you can save it and then uh it'll just be there by default here so there's a few other things you can do it you can insert images uh in here too uh very simple uh to use this program this app at the end when you're all done you have a few options of how you want to share this too so you can send you can share a link email the attachment uh sign request facts you can see uh you can make copies I'm not going to go through everyone but there's lots of options here uh that if you needed to download it again as that PDF and then you're going to have it nice and uh nice neat option here if you click on the Big

D um up top it brings you uh to the file you can see these are ones that I'd opened before in here uh so you can uh this is kind of the dock Hub where things are going to be saved and like I said I believe under the free one you're allowed five documents uh per month uh on it so uh you can take a look if you uh do this as a free one then take a look at your settings uh and then you can see how much an upgrade you can see just by clicking on the upgrade and there is a 30-day uh trial on it too so I'm just going to uh close out of this dock Hub now uh and I was close out of this here too I didn't save it to this but what's let's say you didn't want that app on your Google Drive anymore uh what you do is go over to the settings up top uh here just click it and you can see there's manage apps here and here's this dock uh docup which I installed uh just go ahead and then you can go by disconnect from drive and disconnect and then it's gone uh from it so then you for example if I open it up again you can see it's gone from my list so I hope this app might be something that you could use if it is please give it a some thumbs up so and or share it with a few other people I remember I do these weekly Tech tips here at teachers Tech uh so if you like what you see please subscribe to my channel thanks for watching and I'll see you next time