OCRKit for Mac

I noticed that this was still on sale so just bought it, but now noticed there is also a Pro version, but do not see Pro version on sale, which is weird since only a $10 difference normally. I would have opted for Pro version if it was an option.

Tested this while I was pondering purchase. Seems to make quite a lot of mistakes, maybe every third word has an error when ocring rather clear 11 pt Arial text. Seems there is no vocabulary in target language (while app claims to support finnish). If you have access to Acrobat it makes better ocr. Formatting is good and clear if you need just text.

I tested OCRKit (Pro) and here is what I found: Pros: - App just starts and creates the output file (may be useful for batch processing). Cons: - There is no documentation for app preferences. You should figure out each option by yourself. - RTF and HTML outputs produce unformatted text. Only PDF output preserves formatting, but you can't fix any errors as well. - Most of the resulting PDFs are just image PDFs and even if some words are recognized, PDF is not searchable. - If you need to OCR image PDFs or screenshot images made on a 1080p display, then just look for another OCR software. - There are no options to teach the app about screen fonts used in the image, so it may produce better results. - There is no Preview or some kind of Editor. What should I do with all those poorly recognized PDFs. I may easily fix RTF or HTML output, but without preserved text formatting, they are useless. - For the price of $50 (or $60 for the Pro version) one would expect to receive a decent product, not just a command line utility with only a few options. My recommendation is first test this app, before going to purchase it.

They went from version 2.14 to version 15.11?? in just over a month? Probably changing the way their version numbering works.

OCRKit meanwhile has been upped to version 2.14 on 2015-08-14. Cheers, Holger