![]() ![]() I don’t think this is going to be one of those apps that is cobbled together for the App Store and then forgotten.Named one of the “Best Apps of 2015” in the U.S. ![]() The dev, who is very responsive, is working on this and other things. You have to watch file sizes: PDFScanner can downsample images, and provides a useful estimate of file size in the Save DB, but in some cases these can unaccountably balloon. OCR-ed text may be copied and pasted from the main window without saving the file, so it can be used as a quick route to text, but don’t expect clean formatting. Acrobat probably does a marginally more accurate job, but at a much higher price and in a klunkier way. The OCR is no more perfect than any other OCR, but it is good, and easily good enough for the intended purpose. ![]() (They don’t have to be PDFs most formats seem to work fine.) It does however offer limited control over the scan, with no previews, so while it works fine with predictable originals in standard sizes, I generally prefer to pair it with VueScan or throw prescanned images at it. The workflow from scan to output is very quick and simple, and it does not require specialist document scanners. It has a very specific remit: to turn scanned images into searchable PDFs with hidden text. :) )īefore someone says “no demo, no sale” (and no, I’m not a fan of the App Store either) I’d like to say that this is actually a very nice app, and something of a bargain compared to most serious OCR apps. (And you should check this "on" by default! Just a word from the once-burned. If one's scanning important data, one should be sure that - for example - the sheet feeder didn't jam partway through one of the pages. Note to developer regarding a missing function: there should be an option in the application preferences which would open every document in Preview after it's been saved. Scanning is a chore but PDFScanner makes it much less onerous while providing the quality output I need. it found my two scanneers, an HP and a Canon, right off the bat this was NOT the case with ExactScan Pro). PDFScanner has an easy interface, has all the functions one ordinarily needs and is not scanner-dependant as far as I can tell (it claims to use whatever the native Mac Image Capture can handle. (gscan2pdf is a good program but somewhat complicated and ExactScan Pro cost more than my scanner, has an inferior user interface, lacks obvious features and I gave up on it when trying to upgrade my version to Catalina without spending a lot more money). Over this time I've used gscan2pdf on Linux, ExactScan Pro on my Mac and now PDFScanner which is the most satisfying of the lot. I've been scanning work and home documents for about a decade in the (probably hopeless) quest for getting rid of reams of old papers. It is also possible to open or import existing PDF documents and perform OCR on them via a menu option (the language can be set in the Preferences).Customizable file name patterns (include for example date, time and machine name in the filename).Saving to PDF (optionally compressing the scan inside the PDF to save disk space)."Fake Duplex" mode to simplify scanning of double sided documents without a duplex scanner.Scanning, OCR and straightening is done on multiple pages in parallel and you can even reorder or delete pages while PDFScanner is still working Fully automatic straightening of crooked pages (deskew).Intuitive and fast user interface to reorder, delete or edit pages.Supported OCR languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.Optical character recognition to make the document searchable, allow to find it via Spotlight and other search tools or copy the text.Support for all scanners that are supported by the OS X Image Capture application (please check that using the scanner in Image Capture works before purchasing to be sure).When performing OCR, PDFScanner adds the recognized text directly to the scanned image as an invisible layer, so the text can be selected and copied just like in other PDF files. Most of them are however complex, slow or not really suited for scanning documents or letters. There are many applications for OS X that allow scanning of images or text. PDFScanner has been created with one simple task in mind: scanning and archiving documents as quick and easy as possible, and making them findable with Spotlight search.
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