I got this as part of MacUpdate’s 2012 Spring Bundle. I would not have purchased it separately because I rarely use PDFs aside from generating them once and keeping them for reference (read-only).

However, recently it came in very handy for quickly editing a document and tagging another up. The OCR is like all OCRs: subject to tons of errors, but such is the state of mainstream OCR. So, I do not hold poor OCR against it. The UI is a bit cumbersome to use, so I deduct a full star. The features are crippled compared to the full version. $40 more for a few more features is not worth it unless you are a business that runs on PDFs.


The biggest problem I noticed is ease of use is pretty bad. Often I am simply trying to select txt in a field I just created, but instead it makes a new text box. Also, editing text is also cumbersome. Sure it ultimately saves me the, but the UI could be gone over with a finer tooth comb. It feels like a Windows app in many respects because of the bad UI decisions. One should not need a manual to do such simple things. I wish it worked more like InDesign or Quark, but a full blown native Postscript Layout Editor would be too much to wish for for less than $100.

I imagine I will get a bit of use out of this, but mainly I will probably edit badly written forms. I used it to change the one multiple choice answer for the question, “Why are you leaving us?” with the actual reason that they didn’t account for having added no value and making my life more—not less—difficult. I also was able to fill out a form much more easily rather than print a copy, fill it out and rescan it. So this saved much time.

Bottom Line: Worth it if you have to print fill out and scan documents to send back often, or if you deal with a lot of PDFs. A cumbersome and non-standard Mac interface mar what is potentially a great time saver.

The price is right, and I anticipate businesses could save a lot of money by buying even the non-Pro version, printing less and training and allowing staff to OCR documents—as long as a person checks each page against the original document an corrects it.

Occasionally unreliable, but can do what other apps can't.

Bounces on the Dock for ages, then stays on the Dock. When you click on the App on the Dock, it just dissapears from it without opening. Its the same on three other Macs I tried it on. A real disaster of an App and best not to buy it first before trying as you will go insane.

$378 is a bit pricey for this application. I'm glad I picked it up in the bundle for $49.99. For anyone who misses the bundle go for the Pro version, it does more than this version and is only $99.95.

MANY DOCUMENTS CANNOT BE OPENED IF EDITED IN ACROBAT Pro or Reader!!!
Support has acknowledged bug, but doesn't fix it.
Used for years, but going elsewhere if not fixed soon!