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PDFScanner - Simple document scanning and OCR

By Felix Rotthowe

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Description

There are many applications for 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 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 OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite and is only available on the Mac App Store.

What's New in Version 1.9.1

• Full Yosemite support
• User interface modernization
• Option to automatically determine source (flatbed or document feeder)
• Applescript and Automator support
• Improved performance and quality when importing images
• Ledger paper format support
• Lots of bugfixes

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Customer Reviews

Great app, great updates, great price

This app does exactly what it says on the tin. Scanning, OCR, and exporting are all spot-on, and the Fake Duplex mode is an amazing way to avoid hours of tedious work if your scanner can’t do real duplexing (mine can, but it has trouble with certain oddly-sized documents). I can’t comment on the Yosemite updates but the interface tweaks and performance improvements are very nice. Worth every penny!

Works as advertised

Excellent app for scanning and adding OCR to documents all in one step without spending hundreds of dollars for Adobe or other programs. I hit a few bumps with a network printer and emailed the developer who sent me back a fix in less than a day. Highly recommend this app.

Works as advertised and exactly what I needed.

Don’t think I’ve ever rated an application so quicky after purchasing. The fake duplex option is pure genious, you can set defaults for file naming (Year-Month_Date-Hour_Min_Seconds_Filename. This app is great and well worth the price!
Great Job

PDFScanner - Simple document scanning and OCR
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  • $14.99
  • Category: Productivity
  • Updated: Oct 30, 2014
  • Version: 1.9.1
  • Size: 49.6 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Felix Rotthowe

Compatibility: OS X 10.8 or later, 64-bit processor

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