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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1742787" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>*OmniPage* is currently the most advanced OCR engine for personal computers. Currently there is a Windows version, but the Macintosh version of OmniPage was discontinued over a decade ago. That product was written for PowerPC, so it won't run on a modern Macintosh.</p><p></p><p>Nuance, developers of OmniPage, offer this product for Mac users, which uses the full OmniPage engine:</p><p></p><p>PDFConverter ($100)</p><p><a href="http://www.nuance.com/products/pdf-converter-mac/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nuance.com/products/pdf-converter-mac/index.htm</a></p><p></p><p>PDFConverter does an excellent job of OCR (I own a copy), but Nuance is a horrible company to deal with, offering just about no service and support, with multiple reports of them screwing customers.</p><p></p><p>PDFpen ($75)</p><p><a href="https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen/?" target="_blank">https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen/?</a></p><p>includes much of, but not all of, OmniPage's OCR engine, and it does a quite decent job of OCR. PDFpen is a PDF editor with built-in OCR capability and it is a favorite among professionals who do a lot of work with PDF's, but who don't want to have to pay around $400 for Adobe Acrobat Pro/Mac. It's a good product from a good company.</p><p></p><p>There are a bunch of other OCR products for the Mac, or products that include OCR. A decent stand-alone OCR program is:</p><p></p><p>ABBYY FineReader Pro $120</p><p><a href="http://finereader.abbyy.com/pro_for_mac/" target="_blank">http://finereader.abbyy.com/pro_for_mac/</a></p><p>Review:</p><p><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430295,00.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430295,00.asp</a></p><p><a href="http://www.documentsnap.com/ocr-smackdown-abbyy-finereader-vs-adobe-acrobat/" target="_blank">http://www.documentsnap.com/ocr-smackdown-abbyy-finereader-vs-adobe-acrobat/</a></p><p></p><p>There is also this stand-alone OCR program:</p><p></p><p>ReadIris $140</p><p><a href="http://www.irislink.com/EN-US/c1466/Readiris-16-for-Macintosh---OCR-Software.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.irislink.com/EN-US/c1466/Readiris-16-for-Macintosh---OCR-Software.aspx</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HCORAUU/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HCORAUU/?tag=macforums0e4-20</a></p><p></p><p>which is *not* a highly regarded product compared to the others.</p><p></p><p>If you want something that is low cost, consider:</p><p></p><p>PDF OCR (free/$30)</p><p><a href="http://solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx/" target="_blank">http://solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx/</a></p><p>which relies on the open-source OCR engine Tesseract.</p><p></p><p>If you would like a list of products that do OCR, just let me know. There are a bunch of them. But the above ones are most noteworthy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1742787, member: 190607"] *OmniPage* is currently the most advanced OCR engine for personal computers. Currently there is a Windows version, but the Macintosh version of OmniPage was discontinued over a decade ago. That product was written for PowerPC, so it won't run on a modern Macintosh. Nuance, developers of OmniPage, offer this product for Mac users, which uses the full OmniPage engine: PDFConverter ($100) [url]http://www.nuance.com/products/pdf-converter-mac/index.htm[/url] PDFConverter does an excellent job of OCR (I own a copy), but Nuance is a horrible company to deal with, offering just about no service and support, with multiple reports of them screwing customers. PDFpen ($75) [url]https://smilesoftware.com/pdfpen/?[/url] includes much of, but not all of, OmniPage's OCR engine, and it does a quite decent job of OCR. PDFpen is a PDF editor with built-in OCR capability and it is a favorite among professionals who do a lot of work with PDF's, but who don't want to have to pay around $400 for Adobe Acrobat Pro/Mac. It's a good product from a good company. There are a bunch of other OCR products for the Mac, or products that include OCR. A decent stand-alone OCR program is: ABBYY FineReader Pro $120 [url]http://finereader.abbyy.com/pro_for_mac/[/url] Review: [url]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2430295,00.asp[/url] [url]http://www.documentsnap.com/ocr-smackdown-abbyy-finereader-vs-adobe-acrobat/[/url] There is also this stand-alone OCR program: ReadIris $140 [url]http://www.irislink.com/EN-US/c1466/Readiris-16-for-Macintosh---OCR-Software.aspx[/url] [URL]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HCORAUU/?tag=macforums0e4-20[/URL] which is *not* a highly regarded product compared to the others. If you want something that is low cost, consider: PDF OCR (free/$30) [url]http://solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx/[/url] which relies on the open-source OCR engine Tesseract. If you would like a list of products that do OCR, just let me know. There are a bunch of them. But the above ones are most noteworthy. [/QUOTE]
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