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PDF OCR X is a simple drag-and-drop utility for Mac OS X that converts your PDFs into text or searchable PDF documents. It uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) technology to extract the text of the PDF even if that text is contained in an image. This is particularly useful for dealing with PDFs that were created via a Scan-to-PDF function in a scanner or photo copier. Supports English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Vietnamese, and Italian currently. The OCR engine is based on Tesseract.
The free version is limited to PDFs of 1 page or less.
The free version is limited to PDFs of 1 page or less.
What's New
Version 1.9.25:
- Fixed issue with PDFs containing some special characters. Also improved compatibility with PDFs that have been cropped or rotated at 270 degrees
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
ABBYY FineRead...+8
OCRKit+5 
PDF2Office for...+1 
VelOCRaptor+1 
PDFClerk Pro+1 
Adobe Acrobat...+1
PDF OCR X User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:47,063 |
| Version Downloads:2,873 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Free |
| Date:29 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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PDF OCR X is a simple drag-and-drop utility for Mac OS X that converts your PDFs into text or searchable PDF documents. It uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) technology to extract the text of the PDF even if that text is contained in an image. This is particularly useful for dealing with PDFs that were created via a Scan-to-PDF function in a scanner or photo copier. Supports English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Vietnamese, and Italian currently. The OCR engine is based on Tesseract.
The free version is limited to PDFs of 1 page or less. The Enterprise version ($29.99) has no limit on the size of the PDF.
The free version is limited to PDFs of 1 page or less. The Enterprise version ($29.99) has no limit on the size of the PDF.
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Simple things are not there. It should know itself to rotate the page if it need to. It should auto colour-correct (b/c), and some very clear text documents it simply failed to turn them into searchable pdf's at all which is worrying.
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Brighton-Pete reviewed on 05 Dec 2011
But it does a great job on one page. I ended up with a number of single page jpg's of text I wanted to scan. It was spot-on.
I'd have to say it is well worth it to buy - but they provide it free for one page files. They should have a time or run limit on this, as it is quite good.
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THE-GIZZLE reviewed on 18 Sep 2011
I needed to OCR a page or two and it was all done quite well for a grand total of free.
Thank you Web lite solutions Corp.
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Vossman77 reviewed on 29 Jul 2011
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“demo” is the new word for partially disabled software?
That’s fine, once I know it.
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Bob.jacobson reviewed on 05 Jul 2011
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Bob.jacobson reviewed on 04 Jul 2011
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Mrarlen reviewed on 03 Feb 2011
Just what I needed rather than retyping seven pages.
Can't beat that for free.
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Cheesy Brit reviewed on 23 Oct 2010
If you want to get at the contents of a PDF, then the free PDF editor extension that Sun released for OpenOffice/StarOffice is much better. And that's free as in "no charge *AND* fully functional".
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I wonder what I do wrong
gglatendresse@shaw.ca
Date: 06 Apr 2010
Platform: PPC/Intel
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per the developer:
" Unfortunately the current version only runs on Intel based macs. We are working towards removing some dependencies to make it work on PowerPC, but for now, unfortunately it's Intel only."
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Morgan_Alex rated on 25 Mar 2012
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Quiiick rated on 24 Mar 2012
bkir016 rated on 19 Jan 2012
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Wikno rated on 07 Sep 2011
Johan Jarmander rated on 10 Feb 2011
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Rahn rated on 20 Dec 2010
Roro01 rated on 18 Dec 2010