You probably won’t be performing text extraction against 1920s magazine articles-maybe so, if you’re like me!-but the slightly degraded nature of the source text and quality of the scan puts the services and software to a more substantial test than pristine rendered typography. RAD PDF is compatible with 99 of internet browsers, including those on Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. You can see the figures below with each app or service noted. Were excited to announce the acquisition of PDFpen (by SmileSoftware) productivity apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone, which expands Nitros powerful document. For a side-by-side comparison that demonstrated my results starkly, I copied out the results of recognition against the same legibly typeset magazine copy from a 1920s Popular Mechanics article (about comic-strip production). In researching this article, I tested a range of images and documents that proved fairly consistent across each service or app. You may already have a free account or paid subscription to one of the services below or own the software. These types also include PDFs with scanned images that have no text layer already inserted or extracted.
Pdfpen windows for mac#
PDFpen for Mac goes for 74.95 USD while PDFpen pro for Mac goes for 124.95 USD. PDF Expert goes for a one-time payment of 59.99 USD while PDFpen comes in two forms. If you are trying to access text in images you have, whether documents, photos, or forms, you have many options available. Both PDF Expert and PDFpen are compatible with Windows 7/8/10 and Mac OS.