PDFScanner for Mac
Scan and archive documents.
$19.99
In English
Version 2023.1When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
PDFScanner overview
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. 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.
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.
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).
What’s new in version 2023.1
- Scanner Compatibility Fixes
PDFScanner for Mac
$19.99
In English
Version 2023.1
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Apr 23 2020
Version: 1.15.2
I've been scanning work and home documents for about a decade in the (probably hopeless) quest for getting rid of reams of old papers. Over this time I've used gscan2pdf on Linux, ExactScan Pro on my Mac and now PDFScanner which is the most satisfying of the lot. (gscan2pdf is a good program but somewhat complicated and ExactScan Pro cost more than my scanner, has an inferior user interface, lacks obvious features and I gave up on it when trying to upgrade my version to Catalina without spending a lot more money).
PDFScanner has an easy interface, has all the functions one ordinarily needs and is not scanner-dependant as far as I can tell (it claims to use whatever the native Mac Image Capture can handle... it found my two scanneers, an HP and a Canon, right off the bat; this was NOT the case with ExactScan Pro). Scanning is a chore but PDFScanner makes it much less onerous while providing the quality output I need. I recommend it.
Note to developer regarding a missing function: there should be an option in the application preferences which would open every document in Preview after it's been saved. If one's scanning important data, one should be sure that - for example - the sheet feeder didn't jam partway through one of the pages. (And you should check this "on" by default! Just a word from the once-burned. :) )
Mar 17 2020
Version: 1.15.2
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Aug 6 2018
Version: 1.12.1
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Jan 3 2017
Version: 1.11.6
pro:
- nice Interface
- fast and reliable ocr
- straight forward
- works with most Scanners
- deskewing; but no auto-rotate (read below)
cons:
- no automatic deletion of white pages (so you can't scan in duplex mode as standard)!!
- no auto-rotate option (pages written in landscape format aren't getting ocr'd)!!
Hoepfully the cons are fixed in a future update!
Nov 1 2016
Version: 1.11.5
Very good app, very good responding(!) developer and very good support for the app.
Using it since years.
