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PDF OCR X Community Edition for Mac

  • Free

  • In English
  • V 3.0.10
  • 4.2

    (0)
  • Security Status

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PDF OCR X Community Edition - Free OCR tool for PDFs

PDF OCR X Community Edition is a free app that takes PDF files and uses OCR to convert them into searchable text files and PDF documents. The simple, streamlined interface provides a quick and convenient way to convert old documents into searchable files.

Handles text based and multimedia documents

PDF OCR X Community Edition provides support for both plain text documents and documents including multimedia such as images. The community edition supports only single page PDF documents but its OCR software outperforms many competitor products for tricky character recognition and results may be submitted to the developers in order to aid further refinement.

Simple, easy to use OCR scanner

PDF OCR X Community Edition features a clean, no-frills interface that provides exactly what it sets out to do. For single page PDF documents, PDF OCR X Community Edition provides free, high quality OCR software.

PROS

  • Simple to use user interface
  • Supports user feedback submission for continuous refinement and improvement of OCR
  • Very good OCR engine for free
  • Supports over 60 languages

CONS

  • Free version provides only single document scanning support
  • Struggles with smaller font sizes
  • Tends to transpose letters i and j
  • User interface appears not to have been updated for Retina displays, resulting in blurry interface at higher resolutions

Program available in other languages


PDF OCR X Community Edition for Mac

  • Free

  • In English
  • V 3.0.10
  • 4.2

    (0)
  • Security Status


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