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PDFScanner...There are many applications for Mac OS X that allow scanning of images or text. Most of them are however complex, slow or not really suited for scanning documents or letters.
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.
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.
PDFScanner supports the
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.
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.
PDFScanner supports the
What's New
Version 1.4.1:
- Improving accuracy of OCR text placement
- Using default PDF fonts (when high compression is enabled) to save space
- Adding A3 support
- Adding shortcurt (CMD-Backspace) for clear action
- Allowing OCR on pages that already contain text
- Fixing a weird bug that sometimes happens when saving documents in landscape orientation
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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PDFScanner...There are many applications for Mac OS X that allow scanning of images or text. Most of them are however complex, slow or not really suited for scanning documents or letters.
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.
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.
PDFScanner supports the following features:
Support for all scanners that are supported by the Mac OS X Image Capture application (please check that using the scanner in Image Capture works before purchasing to be sure)
Optical character recognition to make the document searchable, allow to find it via Spotlight and other search tools or copy the text.
Supported OCR languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish
Intuitive and fast user interface to reorder, delete or edit pages
Fully automatic straightening of crooked pages (deskew)
Full multithreading support. Scanning, OCR and straightening is done on multiple pages in parallel and you can even reorder or delete pages while PDFScanner is still working
„Fake Duplex" mode to simplify scanning of double sided documents without a duplex scanner
Saving to PDF (optionally compressing the scan inside the PDF to save disk space).
Customizable file name patterns (include for example date, time and machine name in the filename)
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).
PDFScanner runs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion and is only available on the Mac App Store.
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.
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.
PDFScanner supports the following features:
PDFScanner runs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion and is only available on the Mac App Store.
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This-person-died-in-2011 reviewed on 03 Nov 2011
After reading the review by @Nicksloan I gave this some serious thought. Even though the dev's website was down, I got a good rundown of features on the App Store page.
There was one thing that nearly stopped me in my tracks: Needing a scanner that Image Capture recognized. I have a Fujitsu S500M that's been very good to me for a couple of years. However, Image Scanner doesn't recognize it.
Well, the software that comes with the Scansnap is pretty versatile and I decided to risk the $15.
At this point, I'm glad I did. It took a couple of minutes to configure a new profile for the Scansnap that would send scans to PDFScanner. Though PDFScanner doesn't pop up as it would with an Image Capture scanner, it does work and does the OCR and saving in a straightforward manner. I'll still use DTPO for the heavier research but for scanning the odds and ends of daily life, this app is great.
Recommended - an excellent application (one star off due to the Image Capture limitation).
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Nicksloan reviewed on 19 Sep 2011
It has a very specific remit: to turn scanned images into searchable PDFs with hidden text. The workflow from scan to output is very quick and simple, and it does not require specialist document scanners.
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. (They don’t have to be PDFs; most formats seem to work fine.)
The OCR is no more perfect than any other OCR, but it is good, and easily good enough for the intended purpose. Acrobat probably does a marginally more accurate job, but at a much higher price and in a klunkier way. 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.
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. The dev, who is very responsive, is working on this and other things. I don’t think this is going to be one of those apps that is cobbled together for the App Store and then forgotten.
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