
Open a scanned PDF in PDFpen, or scan your document using PDFpen’s “Import from Scanner” command. PDFpen uses the OmniPage OCR engine, which is recognized for its accuracy.įor more info, see Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Wikipedia. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of converting a bitmap image of text (like a scanned document) into text that can be selected, copied and searched by PDFpen and other text editing software.
“If you’re looking for a way to convert already-scanned documents to usable text without rescanning, PDFpen’s OCR software may be a viable alternative to costly standalone OCR packages.” – Macworld, 4 mice Edit scanned documents on your Mac with ease! PDFpen features OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capability.