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Message: <blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1921032" data-attributes="member: 67742">Could you expand on that?Because I sure don't understand why PDFpen should end up with a file twice as large as Acrobat The files are meant to be downloadable from one of my websites so I try to keep them a reasonable size.The original, non-searchable pdf file was 38.3MB which is fine; the searchable file using Acrobat at 60MB I think is already at the high end where I want to be with the file size of those documents, not any bigger.I could try to reduce the size of the PDFpen document to 60MB or less and see where that leaves me as far as quality of the pdf doc is concerned.The other issue with PDFpen is that I would have to spend about $150.- to get a license - this OCR test was done on a trial basis which adds a watermark to the pages.If PFpen had given me an OCR document of 60MB or less, I would have spent the money.I have to see which of the other Mac pdf applications Randy posted a while back also does OCR and see if they are any better.Right now my workaround is to break up the original pf into 70-page chunks, run Acrobat OCR on each one and then combine them.But I'm still trying to understand why memory swapping doesn't seem to work with Acrobat.I'm thinking of watching RAM usage/swapping attempts in Activity Monitor when I get the next large pdf document to run OCR and see if that provides any hints.</blockquote>